Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

The Angels investigate a series of murders which occur after the theft of a witness protection profile database.

Director:

McG

Writers:

Ivan Goff (television series), Ben Roberts (television series)

Stars:

Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz

9 wins & 21 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Cameron Diaz	...	Natalie Cook
Drew Barrymore	...	Dylan Sanders
Lucy Liu	...	Alex Munday
Bernie Mac	...	Jimmy Bosley
Crispin Glover	...	Thin Man
Justin Theroux	...	Seamus O'Grady
Robert Patrick	...	Ray Carter
Demi Moore	...	Madison Lee
Rodrigo Santoro	...	Randy Emmers
Shia LaBeouf	...	Max
Matt LeBlanc	...	Jason
Luke Wilson	...	Pete
John Cleese	...	Mr. Munday
Ja'net DuBois	...	Momma Bosley
Cheung-Yan Yuen	...	Deranged Mongol

Storyline

The Angels--Natalie, Dylan, and Alex are back again but this time they're preparing for a strike without even warning as they go undercover to retrieve two missing silver bands. These are no ordinary rings. They contain valuable encrypted information that reveal the new identities of every person in the Federal Witness Protection Program. When witnesses start turning up dead, only the Angels, using their expertise as masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts can stop the perpetrator, a mysterious "fallen" Angel. Aided by their trusty colleague, Jimmy Bosley, the Angels' adventure begins at a remote Mongolian outpost and ends only after Dylan is forced to face a dark secret from her past--a secret that puts the lives of her two best friends in danger.

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Plot Keywords:

2000s | female butt jiggle | ensemble cast | violence | blockbuster | 

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Taglines:

This summer the Angels are back.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for action violence, sensuality and language/innuendo

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English Mandarin Spanish

Release Date:

27 June 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

Charlie's Angels 2

Filming Locations:

Greystone Park & Mansion - 905 Loma Vista Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$120,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$37,634,221, 29 June 2003

Gross USA:

$100,830,111

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$259,175,788

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures, Flower Films (II), Tall Trees Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

106 min 107 min (unrated)

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS (8 channels)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Bruce Willis: As William Rose Bailey. The name is a reference to Guns N' Roses singer W. Axl Rose, whose real name was William Bruce Bailey until he was seventeen.

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Goofs

Seamus O'Grady states that he has been in jail for 2920 days=8 years. With leap years, 8 years have either 2921 or 2922 days.

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Quotes

Dylan Sanders: And all we have is the Thin Man.
Natalie Cook: Our Favorite Ass-Ass-in
Alex Munday: [Holding the medal] We should get this to the lab to have it anal-ized.
Dylan Sanders: You do that.

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Crazy Credits

After the "Columbia Pictures" intro, the shot zooms in to the torch the woman is holding, starting the scene.

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Alternate Versions

The UK cinema version was cut by three seconds (sight and sound of a head-butt to Dylan) to secure a more commercial '12A' rating. Furthermore, the unrated DVD edition widely available elsewhere could not be released in the UK at the time, as it would require being upgraded to a '15' rating, and BBFC policy would then not allow two versions of the same film with different ratings. In short, the UK DVD release is the cut, theatrical version without the extra scenes present in the unrated version.

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Connections

Spoofs Flashdance (1983)

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Soundtracks

Scene D'Amour
/"The Nightmare"
from "Vertigo"
Written by Bernard Herrmann
Performed by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Paul Bateman
Courtesy of Silva Screen Records Ltd.
By Arrangement with Source/Q

User Reviews

An "E" for effort and an "F" for floparoo!

The verdict is in and hopeful critics and public alike seem to agree that director McG pushed the envelope so far it broke and turned "CA:FT" into a colossal dud. Not an uncommon problem when one is trying to out do himself with a sequel, especially for a young auteur working in the action genre. McG appears to have fallen victim to that more-is-more mentality as he takes the "Angels" into the realm of action movie super heroes of comic book proportion. The loss is credibility, personality, and humanness...qualities which keep us riveted to the screen through all the action and fluff for there is no suspense or thrill if good is unequivocally invincible and the doom of evil a foregone conclusion. Perhaps the most sadly laughable moment in this film is when Demi Moore's trains her Desert Eagle on the speaker box with a tear running down one cheek. At that moment it is blindingly obvious that someone should have been working smarter, not harder. You can bet that when the "CA:FT" audience laughed, they weren't laughing -with- the auteur, but at him. For action junkies only. (C)