Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Promotional poster
Directed by	McG
Produced by	Drew Barrymore Leonard Goldberg Nancy Juvonen
Written by	TV series: Ivan Goff Ben Roberts Story: John August Screenplay: John August Cormac Wibberley Marianne Wibberley
Starring	Cameron Diaz Drew Barrymore Lucy Liu Bernie Mac Voice of John Forsythe Demi Moore Crispin Glover Shia LaBeouf
Music by	Edward Shearmur
Cinematography	Russell Carpenter
Editing by	Wayne Wahrman
Studio	Flower Films Wonderland Sound & Vision Tall Trees Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	June 27, 2003
Running time	Theatrical cut: 106 minutes Unrated cut: 107 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$120,000,000
Gross revenue	$259,175,788
Preceded by	Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is a 2003 American action comedy film. It is the sequel to 2000's Charlie's Angels. It opened in the United States on June 27, 2003, and was number one at the box office for that weekend and made a worldwide total of $259.2 million.^[1]

[edit] Plot

The Angels, Dylan, Natalie, and Alex, are hired to locate a set of titanium rings stolen from the Department of Justice that, when put together in a special machine, will display a list of all individuals in the witness protection program. Having discovered that one person on the list has been killed, the Angels investigate the scene and discover evidence suggesting that the killer is a surfer with a scar on one leg. Having tracked the killer to his next victim - who is subsequently sent to Bosley's house for protection - it is revealed that angel Dylan was once named Helen Zaas and is in the program herself for sending her former boyfriend - a member of the O'Grady mafia family - to jail.

Although they recover the rings, Dylan leaves the Angels because she doesn't want to endanger them with her ex's vendetta, but former Angel Kelly Garrett - in a visit that may have been spiritual - reminds her that every Angel is unique, and her flawed past shouldn't define her present. Returning to the team, Dylan and the others deduce that former angel Madison Lee is the perpetrator of the crimes due to her being the only individual possessing the necessary contacts to carry out such a scheme. Madison, having concluded "Why be an Angel, when [she] can be God", having shot the Angels after reacquiring the rings, although they are saved by their specially-designed Kevlar vests - returns to the agency to "confront" Charlie, rejecting his attempts to remind her that the Angels are a family and shooting his speaker off the desk, coldly sneering that she was always the best.

Learning that the rings will be sold after a rendezvous on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Angels travel to Hollywood, setting the crime families up to be caught by the FBI in a faked rendezvous. With Madison having contacted the O'Gradys to act as security, Alex and Dylan take out the O'Gradys, while Natalie and Madison go head-to-head themselves. Dylan manages to kill her ex, with the Angels subsequently stopping Madison's attempt to blow up the premiere of Alex's boyfriend Jason's new movie thanks to Bosley knocking the bomb away. Although Madison tries to escape, the Angels defeat her in a final confrontation in an abandoned theatre, throwing her through a gas main just as she fires her gun, causing an explosion that kills her. The film ends with the Angels celebrating their victory with Bosley.

[edit] Cast

• Cameron Diaz as Natalie Cook
• Drew Barrymore as Dylan Sanders
• Lucy Liu as Alex Munday
• Bernie Mac as Jimmy Bosley
• John Forsythe (voice) as Charles "Charlie" Townsend
• Demi Moore as Madison Lee
• Crispin Glover as Creepy Thin Man
• Shia LaBeouf as Max Petroni
• Justin Theroux as Seamus O'Grady
• Robert Patrick as Ray Carter
• Rodrigo Santoro as Randy Emmett
• Matt LeBlanc as Jason Gibbons
• Luke Wilson as Pete Komisky
• John Cleese as Alex's father

Cameos

• Jaclyn Smith as Kelly Garrett
• Bruce Willis as William Rose Bailey
• P!nk as Coal Bowl Starter^[2]
• The Pussycat Dolls as Themselves (dancing to a vamped-up "Pink Panther Theme")
• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as Themselves / Angels-in-Training
• Eve as Herself
• Ed Robertson as Sheriff
• Robert Forster as Roger Wixon
• Chris Pontius and Bam Margera as Irish dock workers
• Bela Karolyi as Himself
• Carrie Fisher as Mother Superior
• Eric Bogosian as Alan Caulfield
• Tommy Flanagan, Chris Pontius, Jonas Barnes, and Luke Massy as Irish henchmen
• Owen Wilson as crime scene police officer
• Belma Pehratovic as Belma Pehratovic

[edit] Development

Courtney Love, Drew Barrymore's close friend, was offered the role of Madison Lee, but after suffering a miscarriage while filming Trapped, she turned it down.

The movie starts up abruptly from the first film. However, there is a series of online animated episodes^[3] that explain how the Angels got there and their mission, concluded by the very introduction of the movie. The Seamus O'Grady prison introduction scene is a direct reference to Robert De Niro's prison-set introduction in Cape Fear.^{[citation needed]}

The song "Feel Good Time" is the film's main track, and is performed by P!nk. Whenever Seamus O'Grady (Justin Theroux) appears, he is accompanied by Bernard Hermann's theme from Cape Fear.

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson heavily sponsored the movie, using it as the launch for its T610i mobile phone, which Lucy Liu uses in the ship dock scene.^{[citation needed]}

Dita Von Teese is in the credits, listed under "Special Thanks". This is because Dita allowed Cameron Diaz to perform the 'Dancing In The Martini' scene, an act which Dita is well known for.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Reception

The movie had a budget of $120 million. It grossed $100,830,111 at the United States box office, but had to depend on earnings from overseas box office to make profit. By the end of its run the film had grossed $259,175,788 worldwide and performing about as well worldwide as its predecessor.

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle earned a 42% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

[edit] References

1. ^ Jonathan Crocker. "Take 1: Movie firsts that changed cinema forever". MSN Movies. http://entertainment.sympatico.msn.ca/movies/galleries/MovieGallery.aspx?cp-documentid=17240697&imageindex=16. Retrieved 2009-06-05. 
2. ^ "Pink to Write Her Own Movie". December 8, 2004. http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0051302/. Retrieved 2009-06-05. 
3. ^ "Charlie's Angels Animated Adventures". http://www.animatedangels.com. Retrieved 2009-06-05. 

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle at the Internet Movie Database
• Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle at Allmovie
• Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle at Box Office Mojo
• Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle at Rotten Tomatoes