Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is a 2003 American action comedy film directed by McG and written by John August, and Cormac and Marianne Wibberley. It is the sequel to 2000's Charlie's Angels and the second installment in the Charlie's Angels film series, which is a continuation of the story that began with the television series of the same name by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts.

In an ensemble cast, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu reprise their roles. It also features Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Carrie Fisher, Shia LaBeouf, Robert Patrick, Crispin Glover, Justin Theroux, Melissa McCarthy, Matt LeBlanc, Luke Wilson, John Cleese, Rodrigo Santoro, Bernie Mac as Bosley's brother and Jaclyn Smith reprising her role as Kelly Garrett from the original series. John Forsythe reprised his role as Charlie's voice from the series and previous film for the last time. It was his final film role before his retirement and his death in 2010.

It opened in the United States on June 27, 2003, and was number one at the box office for that weekend, also making a worldwide total of $259.2million. A third installment, Charlie's Angels, with a new generation of Angels, will be released in 2019.

Plot
After rescuing U.S. Marshal Ray Carter (Robert Patrick) in Mongolia, the Angels: Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz) Dylan Sanders (Drew Barrymore) and Alex Munday (Lucy Liu) together with John Bosley's adoptive brother Jimmy Bosley (Bernie Mac) are sent to recover H.A.L.O. (Hidden Alias List Operation) titanium rings stolen from the United States Department of Justice which can display the people listed in the witness protection program. DOJ official William Rose Bailey (Bruce Willis) and a protected witness, Alan Caulfield (Eric Bogosian) are among those killed. At Caulfield's house in San Bernardino, the Angels track his assassin Randy Emmers (Rodrigo Santoro) to a beach where they meet with former Angel Madison Lee (Demi Moore). During the Coal Bowl motorcycle race, Emmers targets another witness named Max Petroni (Shia LaBeouf), but is killed by the Thin Man (Crispin Glover). Inside Emmers' pocket, the Angels discover the photos of Caulfield, Max, and, surprisingly, Dylan, under her birth name, Helen Zaas.

Dylan reveals that she is a protected witness after sending her former boyfriend, Irish mob leader Seamus O'Grady (Justin Theroux) to prison. O'Grady has since targeted those who wronged him, including Dylan and Max, whose parents O'Grady killed. Max is sent to the home of Bosley's mother (Ja'net Dubois) for his protection. At a monastery, the Angels learn about the Thin Man's past from the Mother Superior (Carrie Fisher), who reveals his name, Anthony. Afterward, the Angels track O'Grady's mob at San Pedro and manage to get the rings, but O'Grady threatens Dylan with the murder of everyone she loves. While Natalie attends her boyfriend, Peter Kominsky (Luke Wilson)'s high school reunion at Hermosa Beach and Alex returns home to find her action star boyfriend-under-timeout, Jason Gibbons (Matt LeBlanc) telling her awestruck father (John Cleese) about her exploits (only for him to mistake her for being a hooker), Dylan leaves the Angels and heads to Mexico. When Natalie, Bosley and Alex notice her letter, they read her reasons for leaving them. While Alex is upset by this, Natalie understands why Dylan fled to protect them. When she asks about O'Grady's break out from jail, Charlie reveals someone had him released on good behavior. While in Mexico keeping a low profile, Dylan is convinced to return after seeing an apparition of former Angel Kelly Garrett (Jaclyn Smith).

Natalie and Alex deduce that Carter is a part of O'Grady's scheme after seeing him return Bosley's keys without any pain, since he had earlier claimed to have broken his ribs, which is now proved to have been a lie. Following him, the two witness him being shot to death by Madison, the true mastermind behind all of this. Though Dylan arrives to back the group, the Angels are shot by Madison, who takes the rings, though they survive by having worn Kevlar vests beforehand. At the base, Charlie through the speakers reprimands Madison for what she's done. He confronts her for endangering the lives of her former teammates. By the time that he had rescued them, the girls were in critical condition and Madison was kicked out of the Angels for it. Madison responds by pulling out her gold guns and shooting the speaker. The Angels realize that Madison, with the protection of O'Grady, is going to sell the rings to the Antonioni Crime Family, the Tanaka Yakuza, and the Diablo Cartel at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where Jason's film's premiere is about to commence. The Angels set the three groups up to be arrested by the FBI instead, while they confront Madison and O'Grady. Anthony comes to the Angels' aid, where it's revealed he's in love with Dylan and is doing his part to protect her. O'Grady kills Anthony. He continues to fight Dylan, and almost succeeds in killing her, but she manages to kick glass into his eyes blinding him, which then causes him to lose his footing and fall to his death. The Angels then proceed to fight Madison all the way to an abandoned theater, where they kick her into a chamber filled with gas, where Madison inadvertently triggers an explosion upon firing her gun at them, killing her.

The Angels attend the premiere where they learn that Mama Bosley is adopting Max. Peter postpones his engagement with Natalie by buying for them a puppy named Spike while Alex terminates her timeout with Jason. The Angels celebrate their victory together with Bosley.

Cast

 * Cameron Diaz as Natalie Cook
 * Drew Barrymore as Dylan Sanders / Helen Zaas
 * Lucy Liu as Alexandra "Alex" Munday
 * John Forsythe as Charles "Charlie" Townsend (Voice)
 * Bernie Mac as Jimmy Bosley, successor and half-brother of John Bosley
 * Crispin Glover as Thin Man
 * Justin Theroux as Seamus O'Grady, Dylan's ex-boyfriend and head of the O'Grady Irish Mob
 * Robert Patrick as Ray Carter, Director of the U.S. Marshals Service
 * Demi Moore as Madison Lee, a former Angel turned independent operative
 * Shia LaBeouf as Maxwell "Max" Petroni, an orphaned teenager targeted by the mob after his testimony
 * Matt LeBlanc as Jason Gibbons, Alex's boyfriend
 * Luke Wilson as Peter "Pete" Komisky, Natalie's boyfriend
 * John Cleese as Mr. Munday, Alex's father
 * Ja'net DuBois as Momma Bosley, Jimmy's mother
 * Michael Guarnera as Boss of Antonioni Crime Family


 * Cameos
 * Jaclyn Smith as Kelly Garrett
 * Bruce Willis as William Rose Bailey, Justice Department official
 * Pink as Coal Bowl M.C.
 * The Pussycat Dolls as Themselves (dancing to a vamped-up "The Pink Panther Theme")
 * Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as the Future Angels
 * Eve as Herself
 * Rodrigo Santoro as Randy Emmers, Surfer Assassin
 * Ed Robertson as Sheriff
 * Robert Forster as Roger Wixon, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
 * Melissa McCarthy as Woman at Crime Scene. McCarthy was previously appeared from the first film as different character, Doris.
 * Chris Pontius and Bam Margera as Irish dock workers
 * Bela Karolyi as Himself
 * Carrie Fisher as Mother Superior
 * Big Boy and Anthony Griffith as Jimmy Bosley's cousins
 * Eric Bogosian as Alan Caulfield, victim murdered by Emmers
 * Tommy Flanagan, Chris Pontius, Jonas Barnes, and Luke Massy as Irish henchmen
 * Andrew Wilson as crime scene police officer in charge

Production
Charlie's Angels: Animated Adventures, an animated prequel series explain how the Angels got there and their mission, concluded by the very introduction of the film.

The Seamus O'Grady prison introduction scene is a direct reference to Robert De Niro's prison-set introduction in Cape Fear.

The scene where the Angels go to investigate the body of Agent Caufield dressed as crime-scene professionals is an homage/parody of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, complete with the theme "Who Are You" by The Who.

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

The Thin Man character perhaps pays homage to the Thin Man in 1927 German Expressionist film Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang. In the film, Thin Man is ordered by Joh Frederson, master of Metropolis, to spy on his son Freder.

Box office
The film had a production budget of $120million. It grossed $100,830,111 at the United States box office and had to depend on earnings from the international box office to make profit. By the end of its run, the film had grossed $259,175,788 worldwide, underperforming its predecessor by $5 million.

Critical response
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle received mixed reviews and earned a rating of 43% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 182 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: "Eye candy for those who don't require a movie to have a plot or for it to make sense." On Metacritic the film has weighted average score of 48 out of 100, based on reviews from 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert gave the film $2 1/2$ stars out of 4, a higher score than the half star he gave to the first film. Amy Dawes of Variety magazine wrote: "Bigger, sleeker and better than the first, sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is a joyride of a movie that takes the winning elements of the year 2000 hit to the next level."

Accolades
The film received seven nominations at the 24th Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Picture, Worst Actress for both Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie (All Concept/No Content), winning two trophies for Worst Remake or Sequel and Worst Supporting Actress for Demi Moore.

Demi Moore was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain, but lost against co-star Lucy Liu for her role as O-Ren Ishii in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1.

Soundtrack
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is the soundtrack album from the 2003 film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. The album was released on June 24, 2003 by Columbia Records.

Certifications

 * Other songs are not included in the soundtrack
 * "Who Are You" by The Who
 * "Thunder Kiss '65" by White Zombie
 * "Firestarter" by The Prodigy
 * "Breathe" by The Prodigy
 * "Block Rockin' Beats" by The Chemical Brothers
 * "Misirlou" by Dick Dale
 * "Wild Thing" by Tone Lōc
 * "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" by Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg
 * "Flashdance... What a Feeling" by Irene Cara
 * "The Pink Panther Theme" by Henry Mancini
 * "The Lonely Goatherd" by Rodgers and Hammerstein
 * "Sleep Now in the Fire" by Rage Against the Machine
 * "Mickey" by Toni Basil
 * "Planet Claire" by The B-52s

Sequel
Following the release of Full Throttle, the franchise was confirmed for a third and fourth film, but in 2004 the idea was cancelled.

On September 15, 2015, The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Sony are rebooting the film with Elizabeth Banks both producing with her producing partner and husband Max Handelman and the studio are in negotiations with her to direct the film. On April 13, 2016, Sony has confirmed that Banks will direct the reboot.

It was later revealed that the new movie won't be a reboot or a remake of the franchise, but rather a continuation that will incorporate the events of the original TV series and the McG-directed 2000s films.