Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

Just what I expected

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Brilliant and touching

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This film falls into the rare category of being a sequel that is better than the first! Liu, Diaz and Barrymore are enchanting, their stunts and dialogue: movie perfection! Packed with intense action scenes, 'Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle' explodes on the screen, while managing to distinguish each character perfectly. Demi Moore captures the true essence of a Hollywood villain, creating aspects of darkness to the movie as a whole. The comedy aspects land perfectly; Bernie Mac being a true standout. A true masterpiece.

The Angels are charged with locating two rings. These aren't, however, any ordinary pair of rings. They contain secret information that, when decrypted, reveal information on everyone in the Federal Witness Protection Program. When witnesses on the list start turning up dead, it's obvious the Angels will have to step up their efforts. But the baddie is someone well known to the Angels - someone who knows the way the Angels work and think. In fact, she was once an Angel herself. I really got a kick out of the first Charlie's Angels movie. It was dumb, but it was fun. In Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle there's just too much. I'm not sure I've seen this since I originally saw it in the theater, so I forgot how busy it all is. There are too many jokes, there are too many ridiculous situations, there are too many over-the- top fight scenes, there is too much of Cameron Diaz's booty shaking (if that's possible), and there is way, way too much CGI. The first movie took the original Charlie's Angels and turned it up a notch or two. This one rips the knob off. It proves the old adage that too much of a good thing can sometimes be a bad thing. The highlight of the film for me is the cast. Diaz, Lucy Liu, and Drew Barrymore all have a charm to them that's a joy to watch. When the film is just the three of them without the huge special effects, these moments work. Unfortunately, these scenes are too few and far between. Also, I really enjoyed seeing Demi Moore. But then again, I always enjoying seeing Demi Moore.Unfortunately, there's not much here to recommend. A 4/10 is the best rating I can give Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

God help me, but I loved this. It's stupid and ridiculous. It's trashy, squishy, soft-soft-core porn. But it's got fluorescent and pastel colors. It's got 80s and 90s music. It's got cool machines. It's got over-the-top unreal stunts. This is about as far as you can get from high-minded culture short of films rated with triple letters, but it's a great guilty pleasure for me since I grew up watching bad TV in the 70s. The recipe is basic, but a hell of a lot more satisfying than meatloaf. Take yourself some stale old TV schlock like "Charlie's Angels", pour in a few zillion dollars, stir and simmer for an hour and 45 minutes, and out comes a tasty confection of pure negative-calorie, big- screen idiocy. This is a truly sincerely positive review, although you've got to be able to really power your brain down to enjoy this sort of extreme mindlessness, something nobody has ever said I have a problem doing. Maybe some of that zen or om or whatever crap from the 70s or 80s or whenever might put you in the mood. Sure you'd feel queasy if you watched too much stuff like this, but then I hope you'd never be dumb enough to try subsisting on nothing but Cheetos either. Producing this movie was an utterly indefensible waste of sorely-needed, invaluable, declining resources unjustifiably extracted from an impoverished planet careening towards global ecological collapse, but since it's neither fattening or highly addictive, I'll let it slide. I suspect that subjecting yourself to this cheese overdose may be positively correlated with early-onset dementia, but that's a risk I deem worth taking. Really, I'm not being facetious. I got a kick out of this movie. It's legal and doesn't burn a hole in your nose or give you the munchies. You can even drive a car after consuming it, although I probably wouldn't. The other side of the coin is that if you absolutely insist on thinking, it might be impossible to do worse than this film. Uh- oh, I wonder what all I just wrote implies about me.

This movie caught me at just the right time, I'd had a pretty intense day with 8 episodes of "The Walking Dead", when I caught it just starting on TV, and this ridiculous bit of fun was perfect to lighten the mood. Having not seen the first movie, I do not know how it compares, but I do know this was a lot of fun and Demi Moore steals the show.Plot in A Paragraph: Natalie Cameron Diaz) Dylan (Drew Barrymore) and Alex (Lucy Lui) are three gorgeous, tough-as-nails, investigative agents 'Charlie's Angels' who work for the Charles Townsend Detective Agency - are sent undercover to retrieve two missing titanium wedding rings. That contain information that reveals the new identities of every person in the Witness Protection Program. After several people in the program are found dead, only the Angels can save the day, using their expertise as masters of disguise, and martial arts.Some of the special effects don't hold up, and if you are looking for something realistic, or believable you are in the wrong place, but the world needs movies that are just a bit of silliness too.Diaz, Lui and Barrymore are all a lot of fun, and certainly give it their all, Justin Theroux is a good villain (even with a dodgy Irish accent) Cameos by Bruce Willis, Matt LeBlanc, Pink, John Cleese, Luke Wilson, Carrie Fisher, Crispib Glover add to the fun, yet Shia Lebouf is even more annoying that before (How is that possible??) I will add, I'll never be able to hear the "Pink Panther Theme" without visualising Cameron Diaz's ass in a thong.As for Demi Moore, she remains one of the most talented and beautiful women in movies, and her ladylike sexiness is in rare supply. Any movie becomes promising just by having her name in it's cast.