GUILTY VIEWING PLEASURES
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Info:
- Release Date: June 27, 2003
- Creators: McG (director), John August (writer)
- Genre: Lovely & Lethal
- Rating: ★★★★☆
Plot:
- Ditzy Natalie, classy Alex and trashy Dylan are assigned by Charlie to retrieve two FBI rings containing the H.A.L.O. (Hidden Alias List Operation) code to break the witness protection program encryption. On the way, they must battle ex-angel Madison and her hot assassin boyfriend Emmers, as well as dodging Irish mob member Seamus, who holds a serious grudge against Dylan for ratting him out eight years earlier.
Notes:
- Raiders of the Lost Ark -inspired opening, with Fodor's Mongolia & massive wire-fu
- Demi Moore, assassinating ex-husband Bruce Willis with a gold gun
- The "Stop, Hammer Time!" dance sequence
- Natalie's grim Castillo-like smile while working undercover as a butch coroner
- White vs. black bikini foreshadowing on Natalie and Madison
- Max starting in on all the Helen Zass jokes
- Bosley's house in South Central as the "safest place in town"
- Flashdance welders to Pink Panther strippers
- Natalie saber-opened bottle of champagne
- Madison not going for the obvious head shots on the angels at the Griffith Park Observatory
- Dylan perplexedly sniffing Thin Man's hair right before Seamus runs him through
- Carrie Fisher as Mother Superior
- Jaclyn Smith (Kelly!) giving Dylan a pep talk in a dive bar in Mexico
- Pure fantasy action & great opening/ending sequences
- "Just once, I'd like to *walk* out of a bar"
- "That's sex wax. That's for your stick"
- "Merkin. That was the name of Seamus's dog."
- "You don't look like a Paddy to me"
Cast:
- Cameron Diaz as Natalie
- Drew Barrymore as Dylan
- Lucy Liu as Alex
- Bernie Mac as Bosley
- Justin Theroux as Seamus
- Robert Patrick as Ray
- Demi Moore as Madison
- Rodrigo Santoro as Emmers
- Crispin Glover as Thin Man
- Shia LaBeouf as Max
- John Cleese as Mr. Munday
- Carrie Fisher as Mother Superior
- Tommy Flanagan as Irish henchman
- Matt LeBlanc as Jason
- Pink as Coal Bowl Starter
- Jaclyn Smith as Kelly
- Andrew Wilson as cop
- Luke Wilson as Pete
