Honestly, with this in the trailer, what were you expecting?

Every kid in the 70's, girls at least, spent many hours playing Charlie's Angels. Spent many hours in addition to that fighting over who got to be Kelly (and ending up being Sabrina). These weren't wasted hours though - they were a way for girls to have adventures on their own - who else would we pretend to be, Julie from The Love Boat? Charlie's Angels still had the girls taking orders from father figures, Charlie and Bosley; and dressing up in ridiculous outfits, it was the creation of Jiggle TV for crying out loud, not a leap forward for the feminist movement. But it was also a cultural phenomenon, something that swept the nation up in Angel Fever for five seasons of highly rated, campy fun.

The movies, released in 2000 and 2003 respectively, fall under the heading of homage. A true remake, for example, like 2004's Starsky and Hutch, would have had the same characters in the same time period. A reboot would have added depth or clarity to the story as a whole. Charlie's Angels, the movie, added depth to nothing but their cleavage and possibly misspelled the word clarity. But they had a great time doing it, and it shows.

So Charlie's Angels was roundly bashed by the critics as vapid, mindless entertainment; one critic even likened them to drunken sorority girls. While that may be funny, it isn't true. An action-adventure homage to one of the campiest TV shows of all time, especially a tongue-in-cheek comedy, directed by a music video director, with more costume changes than a drag queen playing Cher in Divas On Ice and it gets criticized for being dumb? Really, what was the expectation here?

And if the story was unbelievable, and the outfits were unbelievable, and the dialogue was clunky, didn't the amazing action scenes make up for it? Hong Kong action guru Cheung-Yan Yuen, winner of a Hong Kong Film Award for his work on Jet Li's Once Upon a Time in China, was responsible for the signature look and memorable martial arts and action sequences in the film. And lest we forget, the genius casting of Sam Rockwell as the bad guy. See, even camp can get some things right, right?

The reboot of the Charlie's Angels TV show is confirmed and set to start filming this month. So far, the rumor is that it will be set in Miami, and that it will have a multi-racial cast. Actually, most of the buzz around the show is fans dream-casting for the roles of the angels: Kate Prince, the African-American angel, Abby Sampson, the blonde angel, and Marisa Valdez, the hispanic angel. And these are the questions that should concern the fans: shallow, hilarious fun. While Charlie's Angels rebooted TV series may lack depth and social value, it will hopefully bring the entertainment as purely as the camp movie tributes to their camp TV progenitor.

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