Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
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| Directed by | McG |
| Produced by | Drew Barrymore Leonard Goldberg Nancy Juvonen |
| Written by | TV Series: Ivan Goff Ben Roberts Screenplay: John August Cormac Wibberley Marianne Wibberley Story: John August |
| Starring | Cameron Diaz Drew Barrymore Lucy Liu Luke Wilson Matt LeBlanc John Cleese Robert Patrick Crispin Glover Shia LaBeouf Bernie Mac Demi Moore |
| Music by | Ed Shearmur |
| Cinematography | Russell Carpenter |
| Editing by | Wayne Wahrman |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 27, 2003 |
| Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $120,000,000 (estimated) |
| Preceded by | Charlie's Angels |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is a 2003 action/comedy film, the second of the Charlie's Angels cinematic releases. 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 more than $259 million.
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Cast and direction
The movie was directed by Joseph McGinty Nichol, and starred Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu (as the three "angels" Natalie, Dylan and Alex, respectively), with Bernie Mac (as Jimmy Bosley, foster brother of John Bosley, played by Bill Murray in the first film) and Demi Moore. John Forsythe returned as the voice of Charlie, and Crispin Glover reprised his "Creepy Thin Man" role from the first movie. John Cleese, Matt LeBlanc, Luke Wilson, Justin Theroux, Shia LaBeouf, Rodrigo Santoro, and Robert Patrick also appear.
Cameos
- The Pussycat Dolls dance to a vamped-up version of "The Pink Panther Theme" song.
- Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen appear in a short scene at the beginning of the film, and also as "Angels in Training" at the end.
- Eve also has a cameo in the latter scene.
- Barenaked Ladies' co-frontman Ed Robertson had a cameo role, as a Sheriff.
- Jackass and Wildboyz star Chris Pontius has a cameo as an Irish dock worker during the Pussycat Dolls scene.
- The man who played Eric Knox in the first film, Sam Rockwell has a cameo in this film.
- Pink appears during the motocross sequence.[1]
- Kelly Garrett portrayed by Jaclyn Smith appears near the end of the film and helps Dylan come to terms with herself.
- Bruce Willis appears in an uncredited cameo. His character, William Rose Bailey, is a reference to Axl Rose, the frontman of Guns N' Roses. Early into the film, there is a scene with the name "William Rose Bailey" on the screen. William is Axl's first name, Rose is his biological father's name, and Bailey was his step father's surname.[2] He's also killed by the character played by his ex-wife, Demi Moore.
- Bela Karolyi has a cameo role in the beginning of the film as Alex's gymnastics coach
- Carrie Fisher appears as the Head Nun while the Angels are trying to figure out where the Thin Man came from.
Plot
The Angels 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 (pronounced "Helen's ass", making her the "butt" of many jokes) 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 (Demi Moore) 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, informing him coldly 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. Although 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 (Matt LeBlanc) 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 (Bernie Mac).
Reception
The movie grossed $100.9 million at the U.S. box office, but had to depend on earnings from overseas box office to make profit. This is due to the incurred budget of $120 million. By the end of its run the film had grossed $259,175,788 worldwide, surpassing its $120 million production budget.
The sequel, although viewed as superior in stuntwork, special effects, and art design, was in part panned by critics and moviegoers because they felt that the Angels' seeming ability to know and do anything had been stretched a tad too thin (For example, one of the Angels uses a blacklight to discover a footprint, which she then attributes to a special limited edition type of sneaker issued exclusively at one store as a promotion).[citation needed]
Ultimately Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle earned a 42% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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. However there is a series of on-line 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. Near the beginning of the film one of the Angels is seen on the bonnet of a Ford Torino, the famed make and model from Starsky & Hutch.
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 superseded T610i mobile phone, which Lucy Liu uses in the ship dock scene.
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.
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Notes and references
| Preceded by "Hulk" |
List of Box Office #1 Movies June 29, 2003 |
Succeeded by "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" |
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