Charlie's Angels (TV Series) Angels on Ice (1977) User Reviews

Alright, I didn't expect something logical anyway

[MR_Germy · 6/10 · 18 December 2022]

Well, you never expect sense, but fun, if watching this series...This episode is probably at least the definitive proof that it's more about showing nice female figures, pretty hairstyles, nice clown stories (incredibly funny, isn't it?), artistic leaps in the air, attempted belly dancing and the probably zeitgeist-owed view of other cultures... I liked it despite all the contradictions. It's like a trip back to the seventies and its subtext. Beginning with the misogynistic director, over all too predictable dialogues with an exaggerated dramaturge, in apparently always the same room (with at least different labels) in which one changes clothes, one makes guns, or the management is located. In addition, an incredibly naive belly dance, jumps to the ceiling with a randomly made springboard, Sabrina, wondering about raised hands, asking an elderly couple at gunpoint for their truck instead of taking her fast car parked around the corner... Wonderfully crazy . I liked Edward Andrews best, sometimes in the bush, sometimes in the tree, who gives impossible tips in a wonderfully drunk way, which the little angels were of course able to decipher perfectly!

Sublime

[robrosenberger · 10/10 · 8 November 2010]

The Angels go undercover in the Ice Capades! Show owner Phil Silvers (yay!) brings them in to solve the disappearance of his two stars, days before the opening. There are canyon-sized plot holes...the bad guy plan (Arab dissidents infiltrate ice show to shoot a sheik in the front row opening night, necessitating seven kidnappings and thousands of man-hours...i mean, i'm no mastermind, but...you guys ever hear of a sniper rifle?), and the Angel reaction (when they have enough evidence to lock up the bad guys for kidnapping and conspiracy, they "let the show go on", which will get them that murder charge too, but how is that preferable to, i don't know, STOPPING the murder??). But i quibble. Phil kvetches and treats the Angels with caustic disdain. The uncredited kidnapped ice queen is so beautiful my eyes hurt. Sabrina has a wacko fight with a man in a gorilla mask, then commandeers a car, runs a red light, and plows a cop car. Borderline-retarded towel boy James Gammon (the coach, MAJOR LEAGUE) is somehow ridiculous and poignant. In ice clown makeup, Kris is so childishly, innocently beautiful it will tear your heart. Kelly infiltrates an Arabian club. Her belly dancing is jaw-dropping. She may have hit the gym in the off-season, as i don't remember her having upper body muscle tone before. Guest star Edward Andrews (Grandpa "Au-to-mo-bile" Howard, SIXTEEN CANDLES) plays a carefree street wino who witnesses almost everything. In the final scene, the Angels take him out to get him rip-tootin' sauced! Still not sold? How about Jim Backus as the cranky, wizened ice show prop master? Sublime, my friends, sublime.