Roger Ebert recants on his half-of-a-star rating for the original Charlie's Angels movie.

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"[W]hat, really, was so reprehensible about that high-tech bimbo eruption? Imagine a swimsuit issue crossed with an explosion at the special-effects lab, and you've got it."

Of the new film, Ebert complains that "you just can't get aroused by the sight of three babes running toward you in slow motion with an explosion in the background. I've tried it. " So what does that leave? "Harmless, brainless, good-natured fun."

Ebert gives it two and a HALF stars -- "partly in expiation for the 0.5 stars I gave the first one."

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