Charlie's Angels Full Throttle=Best Movie Ever

The sound you hear is me furiously hitting my head on my desk.

It's hyper-textual, meta-textual

its strange to me, and maybe im wrong, but it seems like this sort of thing is always taken as a virtue in pop cinema and as boring pretentious twaddle in "art" films.

I heartily agree with you there!

i agree of course. and part of my point was that since i dont particularly distinguish between "pop" and "art" in my own viewing i have notice a peculiar double standard in the way people approach pop films vs. self consciously artistic films. seeing as how i dont find hypertextuality or metatextuality very interesting in either case i dont know what i would make of CA2.

Adaptation, however, is not that great but it DOES do more interesting things by being metatextual than just the standard Godardian "hey i'm a movie" stuff.

Despite this, I liked it, though not as much as the first one even though McG's finally realised he's directing a MOVIE and not a bunch of music videos connected only by ass-shots. But his very competence is part of the problem - the very fact that there's some attention to narrative flow (and even occasional ill-timed realism)this time means there's less room for the out-and-out goofiness of last time - now when Cameron dances it's all stylised instead of silly, and with Cameron silly is funnier.

Also don't think the references resonate in any way - the Hammerdance should be hilarious but is only amusing because it's not adding any new blood to an old joke.

Soundtrack is terrific, though.