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directed by

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and written by

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, and

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. 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

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and Ben Roberts. In an ensemble cast,

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and

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reprise their roles as the three women working for the Townsend Agency.

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and Luke Wilson also reprise their roles from the first film. It also features

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and

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as John Bosley's adoptive brother while

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, John Cleese and

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appear in supporting roles.

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reprised her role as Kelly Garrett from the original series for a cameo appearance. It was

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's final film role before his retirement from acting in 2006 and death in 2010 respectively. It was released in the United States on June 27, 2003 by Sony Pictures Releasing under its

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label and was number one at the box office for that weekend, also making a worldwide total of $259.2million. Like its predecessor, the film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for the performances of Diaz, Barrymore and Liu, but criticism aimed at the "bland plot and lack of sense".

Plot

After rescuing U.S. Marshal Ray Carter in Mongolia, the Angels: Natalie Cook, Dylan Sanders, and Alex Munday together with John Bosley's adoptive brother Jimmy Bosley are sent to recover

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rings stolen from the

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that can display the people listed in the witness protection program. DOJ official William Rose Bailey and a protected witness, Alan Caulfield are among those killed. At Caulfield's house in

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, the Angels track his assassin Randy Emmers to a beach where they meet former Angel Madison Lee. During the Coal Bowl motorcycle race, Emmers targets another witness named Max Petroni, and the Angels try to intervene. Emmers is killed by the Thin Man (believed to be dead after the events of the first film) because he was protecting Max. 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,

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leader Seamus O'Grady to prison. O'Grady has since targeted those who wronged him; including Dylan and Max, whose parents O'Grady killed. As Max previously testified against O'Grady, he is sent to the home of Bosley's mother for protection. At a monastery, the Angels learn about the Thin Man's past from the Mother Superior, who reveals his name, Anthony. Afterwards, 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. Natalie attends her boyfriend, Pete Kominsky's high school reunion at

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, where she overhears his friends implying he might propose, which she feels is too fast since they just moved in together. Alex returns home to her actor boyfriend, Jason while Dylan leaves the Angels and heads to Mexico. When Natalie, Bosley, and Alex notice the letter she left for them, they realize that Dylan fled to protect them. Natalie asks Charlie how O'Grady got out of jail, and Charlie reveals someone had him released on good behaviour. While hiding out in Mexico, Dylan is convinced to return after seeing an apparition of former Angel Kelly Garrett. Natalie and Alex deduce that Carter is the one who let O'Grady out of prison after seeing him return Bosley's keys without any pain, despite claiming to have broken his ribs beforehand. Following him, the two witness him getting killed by Madison, the true mastermind. Though Dylan arrives to back the group, the Angels are shot by Madison, who takes the rings, though they survived via Kevlar vests. Back at the base, Charlie reprimands Madison for what she's done and confronts her for endangering her former teammates' lives. Madison is angry she never got the recognition she deserved from Charlie and shoots his speaker to bits. The Angels realize that Madison is going to sell the rings to the O'Grady Crime Family, the Antonioni Mafia, the Tanaka Yakuza, and the Diablo Cartel at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where Jason's film premiere is about to commence. The Angels arrange for the buyers to be arrested by the FBI while they confront Madison and O'Grady. The O'Grady's enter the melee, having avoided arrest when Seamus realized the Angels' plan. The Thin Man comes to the Angels' aid, helping Alex and rescuing Dylan when she is being attacked by O'Grady - he begins to fight O'Grady and kicks him off the roof. The Thin Man grabs Dylan and chokes her at first, but they ended up sharing a kiss and he pulls some of Dylan's hair out. Just as he is about to say something, O'Grady stabs him and he falls off the roof. O'Grady nearly succeeds in killing Dylan as well, but she blinds him, causing him to lose his footing and fall to his death (in the unrated cut, O'Grady is still alive and attempts to get back up but is stopped by The Thin Man, who also survived; Dylan accidentally knocks over the "E" sign and it falls on O'Grady, possibly The Thin Man as well). The Angels fight Madison all the way to an abandoned theatre, where they kick her into a chamber filled with gas and she fires her gun, inadvertently blowing herself up. The Angels attend the premiere, where they learn that Mama Bosley is adopting Max. Peter surprises Natalie by asking her to get a puppy (the big question he was planning on asking her) and Alex terminates her "time out" with Jason. The Angels celebrate their victory together with Bosley.

Cast

as Natalie Cook *

as Dylan Sanders / Helen Zaas *

as Alex Munday *

as Madison Lee, a former Angel turned independent operative *

as Jimmy Bosley, successor and adoptive brother of John Bosley *

as Seamus O'Grady, Dylan's ex-boyfriend and head of the O'Grady

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as the Thin Man / Anthony, a mysterious assassin *

as Randy Emmers, a surfer assassin hired by Madison *

as Ray Carter, a corrupt U.S. Marshal *

as the voice of Charles 'Charlie' Townsend, the owner of the Townsend agency *

as Jason Gibbons, Alex's boyfriend * Luke Wilson as Pete Komisky, Natalie's boyfriend * John Cleese as Mr. Munday, Alex's father *

as Max Petroni, an orphaned teenager targeted by the mob after his testimony *

as Momma Bosley, Jimmy's biological mother and John Bosley's adoptive mother ;Cameos *

as Kelly Garrett, one of the original Angels *

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as William Rose Bailey, Justice Department official murdered by Emmers *

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as Mother Superior *

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as Roger Wixon, Director of the FBI *

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as the Coal Bowl M.C. *

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as the future Angels from Dylan's imagination *

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as the sheriff *

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and Steve Hytner as high school reunion buddies in the bathroom *

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as a woman at crime scene. McCarthy previously appeared in the first film as a different character, Doris. * Big Boy and Anthony Griffith as Jimmy Bosley's cousins *

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as Alan Caulfield, victim murdered by Emmers * Chris Pontius as the Irish dock worker *

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, Chris Pontius, Jonas Barnes, and Luke Massy as Irish henchmen * Michael Guarnera as the boss of Antonioni Mafia * Andrew Wilson as crime scene police officer in charge *

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as Themselves, dancing to a vamped-up "

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, who played John Bosley in the first installment, also appears in archival footage.

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''. Whenever O'Grady (

) appears, he is accompanied by

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's theme from '' Cape Fear''. The scene where the Angels go to investigate the body of Agent Caufield dressed as crime-scene professionals is a homage/parody of ''

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'', complete with the theme "

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. The Thin Man character perhaps pays homage to the Thin Man in 1927 German expressionist film ''

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Reception

Box office

''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle'' collected $37.6 million during its opening weekend. 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 41% on

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based on 187 reviews, with an average rating of 5.10/10. 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

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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 stars out of 4, a higher score than the half star he gave to the first film. Ebert explained: "I realized I did not hate or despise the movie, and ..I decided that I sort of liked it because of the high spirits of the women involved". Amy Dawes of ''

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'' 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". The film received seven nominations at the

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including Worst Picture, Worst Actress for both

and

, 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

. The film also received seven nominations at the 2003 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards: Worst Director (

), Worst Actress (Barrymore), Worst Screenplay for a Film Grossing More Than $100 Million Worldwide Using Hollywood Math, Most Intrusive Musical Score, Worst Sequel, Least "Special" Special Effects, and Worst On-Screen Group (the Angels). It won for Worst Director and Most Intrusive Musical Score.

Accolades

was nominated for the

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for

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, but lost against co-star

for her role as O-Ren Ishii in

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's '' Kill Bill: Volume 1''.

Home media

''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle'' was released on both VHS and

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in widescreen and full screen formats on October 21, 2003.

Soundtrack

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

Certifications

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Sequel

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reprising her role; the film follows the Angels dealing with an outbreak of

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directed and produced the film with her husband

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-directed 2000s films. The third installment stars

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Ella Balinska Ella Balinska (born 4 October 1996) is an English actress. She is known for starring in the action-comedy film '' Charlie's Angels'' (2019) and the Netflix original series ''Resident Evil'' (2022). Early life and education Balinska was born on ...

as the new generation of Angels. Banks and

Djimon Hounsou Djimon Gaston Hounsou (; ; born April 24, 1964) is a Beninese-American actor and model. He began his career appearing in music videos. He made his film debut in '' Without You I'm Nothing'' (1990) and earned widespread recognition for his role as ...

also star as Charlie's assistants, known as Bosleys, while

Patrick Stewart Sir Patrick Stewart (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor who has a career spanning seven decades in various stage productions, television, film and video games. He has been nominated for Olivier, Tony, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Screen Actors ...

replaced

in the role of John Bosley and

reprised her role as Kelly Garrett for the second time for a

cameo appearance A cameo role, also called a cameo appearance and often shortened to just cameo (), is a brief appearance of a well-known person in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly ei ...

. It is also the first installment to feature

Robert Clotworthy Robert Clotworthy is an American narrator and voice actor. He may be best known as the narrator for the History Channel series ''Ancient Aliens'' and ''The Curse of Oak Island'' and his role as the voice of Jim Raynor in the ''StarCraft'' video ...

as the voice of Charlie, replacing

, following his death in 2010.

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