Taglines: This summer the Angels are back.
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. 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.
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, itself based on 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, Matt LeBlanc, Luke Wilson, John Cleese and Rodrigo Santoro, with Jaclyn Smith reprising her role as Kelly Garrett and Bernie Mac as Bosley’s brother. It marked John Forsythe’s 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 $259.2 million. The film had a production budget of $120 million. It grossed $100,830,111 at the United States box office and had to depend on earnings from overseas box office to make profit. By the end of its run, the film had grossed $259,175,788 worldwide, performing worse than its predecessor.
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle received mixed reviews and earned a rating of 43% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 178 reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 based on reviews from film critics, the film has a rating score of 48, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.
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.
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Directed by: McG
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Robert Patrick, Luke Wilson, Bernie Mac, Matt LeBlanc, Justin Theroux, Crispin Glover, Demi Moore, Rodrigo Santoro, Jaclyn Smith
Screenplay by: John August, Simon Kinberg
Production Design by: J. Michael Riva
Cinematography by: Russell Carpenter
Film Editing by: Wayne Wahrman
Costume Design by Joseph G. Aulisi
Set Decoration by: Lauri Gaffin
Art Direction by: David F. Klassen, Richard F. Mays, Greg Richman
Music by: Ed Shearmur
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for action violence, sensuality and language / innuendo.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: June 27, 2003
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