Word: bondian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...genial humanism may strike you as a pretty slender hope for so titanic an issue. And it's a big narrative lurch, too, which maybe we shouldn't dwell upon. Much better to focus on the purely comedic, beginning with Sandler's performance. It offers hilarious satire on James Bondian heroics. And Zohan's manic desire to provide "silky smooth" hair dressing represents good comic value, too. There's always been a sweet disconnectedness to Sandler's screen character, and when it is married to his contrasting, obsessive quest for a peaceful, more or less conventional civilian life...
...Harris and Duke Cunningham, being a member of Congress is a little like being James Bond, without the neat gadgets but also fewer bullets. Still: Car crashes! Fistfights! Luxury yachts, $2,800 dinners and wild card games! The prostitutes reportedly procured for Cunningham don't quite fit into the Bondian mold until you consider that at least Cunningham didn't pay for them himself...
Riding the line between Bondian cool and Powers-like self-ridicule, Charlie's Angels turns out to be a less-than-great idea. Constantly amusing but rarely a whole lot more. This is not to say that the movie version is not worthy of any praise- it's worth seeing just for moments like the one when Dylan (Barrymore), seducing a chaffer, licks the steering wheel of his Rolls Royce. But high points like that one were few are far between...