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So there are these three Mexican transvestites, Kay Sedia (Oscar Quintero), Chita Parol (Ray Garcia), and Frieda Laye (Danny Casillas), who work for a private detective agency. They run around in their cha-cha heels solving crimes while taking orders from and reporting to their boss, Chico, who is never seen, only heard. Sounds familiar, right? The premise of Chico's Angels is freaking brilliant. Seriously brilliant. I hear about a trio of Latino cross-dressers doing anything and I'm in, be it a train wreck of sexual and cultural ambiguity or a great riff on the magic of Charlie's Angels. But does Chico's Angels deliver on the promise of funny and sultry private investigating to a salsa-driven soundtrack? Well, that's kind of where the rub is for me. You see Kay, Chita, and Frieda bedazzled in costumes more fitting for South Beach than crime fighting and you think you're in for an...