Main Cast: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, John Forsythe, Bernie Mac, Demi Moore, Luke Wilson
Release Year: 2003
Country: US
Run Time: 105 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
The three most glamorous and butt-kicking private detectives in the business are back and ready to take on bad guys in this sequel to the 2000 blockbuster screen adaptation of the once-popular television series. Dylan (Drew Barrymore), Natalie (Cameron Diaz), and Alex (Lucy Liu) are once again summoned to the office of their boss Charlie (voice of John Forsythe), where they're introduced to his new right-hand man Jimmy Bosley (Bernie Mac) and given their latest assignment. It seems a pair of rings have gone missing and need to be recovered, but this was no ordinary jewel heist -- the rings have been coded with special information that can be used to access a list of every person in the FBI's Witness Protection Program, and when a handful of protected informants are murdered, the Angels are brought in to help crack the case. As the women search for the culprits, they encounter Madison Lee (Demi Moore), one of Charlie's former agents who decided that the wrong side of the law pays better, and Seamus (Justin Theroux), who once dated Dylan and wants revenge for her decision to turn him over to the police. Luke Wilson and Matt LeBlanc return as (respectively) Natalie and Alex's love interests, as does Crispin Glover as the Thin Man; John Cleese, Robert Forster, and Eric Bogosian also appear in supporting roles. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Review
This is fluffy commercialism at its core, easily discounted as yet another way to make loads of cash from an unattainable feminine ideal. That being said, the Charlie's Angels film franchise turns this ideal into a superhero movie, and the result is more exciting and thrilling than many of its comic book-based contemporaries. With the self-mocking humor, fantasy fighting sequences, dance club pulse, and standard crime-fighting plot, it feels a lot like watching The Powerpuff Girls, only with Cosmo-style sex appeal. With so much flesh on display, the überwomen are granted an even higher propensity for makeup, costumes, and spiked high heel boots. The degree of exaggeration is such that it all becomes a kind of grotesque fashion show, albeit with the trappings of a regular macho action movie. This time around, the superheroes even get supervillains; in keeping with the zero tolerance rule for body fat, Demi Moore is quite repulsive as the ex-Angel vigilante, while Justin Theroux makes a stylishly psychotic ex-boyfriend in a rip-off of Robert De Niro in Cape Fear. Director McG doesn't hide his music video skills while pumping up the soundtrack at every opportunity for a showy, explosion-filled trifle that at least has the decency to know it's a trifle, as parodied by Matthew LeBlanc's action movie premiere of "Maximum Extreme II." Upping her salary to a Julia Roberts level, the well-worn comic persona of Cameron Diaz manages a few good moments, despite her horribly thin and unrealistic body. Other than the loathsome subplot involving John Cleese and the unfortunate addition of Bernie Mac, this sequel improves upon its predecessor as an outlet for girlishly giddy delusions of grandeur. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
Crispin Glover - Thin Man; Justin Theroux - Seamus; Robert Patrick - Ray Carter; Radrigo Santara - Randy Emmers; Shia LaBeouf - Max; Matt LeBlanc - Jason Gibbons; John Cleese - Mr. Munday; Ja'net DuBois - Momma Bosley; Robert Forster - Roger Wixon; Eric Bogosian - Alan Caulfield; Carrie Fisher - Mother Superior; Russell Bobbitt - Madison's Minion; Yuen Cheung-Yan - Deranged Mongol; Wayne Federman - Bathroom Guy; Steve Hytner - Bathroom Guy; Bela Karolyi - Himself; Joshua Miller - Chess Kid; Jaclyn Smith; Bruce Willis - William Rose Bailey; Ashley Olsen; Mary-Kate Olsen; Cliff Happy - Fleeing Suspect; Andrew Wilson - Cop; Pink; Marc John Jefferies - Bus Stop Kid; Anthony Griffith - Bosley Cousin; Mark Cotone - Prison Guard; Tommy Flanagan; Cyia Batten - Treasure Chest Dancer; Alfred R. Kahn - Madison's Minion; Big Boy - Bosley's Cousin; Guy Oseary - Restaurant Patron; Jennifer Gimenez - Nun; Jeremy McGrath - Himself; Ricky Carmichael - Himself; Carey Hart - Himself; Rodrigo Santoro - Randy Emmers; Eve - Herself; Khin-Kyaw Maung - Crooked-Tooth; Mushond Lee - FBI Agent; Kate Hendrickson - Nun; Chris Pontius - Irish Henchman; Daxing Zhang - Demented Mongol; Staci Flood - Treasure Chest Dancer; Shanti Lowry - Treasure Chest Dancer; Ed Robertson - Sheriff; Luke Massy - Irish Henchman; Michael Guarnera - Antonioni Crime Boss; Jonas Barnes - Irish Henchman; Carmit Bachar - Treasure Chest Dancer; Travis Bobbitt - Surfer; Kasey Campbell - Treasure Chest Dancer; John Chow - Eager Mongol; Bruce Comtois - Large Mongol; Nadine Ellis - Treasure Chest Dancer; Hannah Feldner-Shaw - Treasure Chest Dancer; Chris Gosselaar - Himself; Shawn Huang - Bus Stop Kid; Josh Janowicz - Hot Priest; Leo Moctezuma - Reunion Dancer; Gabriel Paige - Reunion Dancer; Tanoai Reed - Wrestler; Zack Shada - Thin Boy; Robert J. Stephenson - Crazed Fan; Charles Townsend - Madison's Minion; Hayley Zelniker - Treasure Chest Dancer
Credit
Richard Mays - Art Director, Greg Richman - Art Director, David F. Klassen - Supervising Art Director, Amanda Goldberg - Associate Producer, Stephanie Savage - Associate Producer, Justine Baddeley - Casting, Kim Davis-Wagner - Casting, Tom Saviano - Conductor, Cheryl Beasley Blackwell - Costume Designer, Mark Cotone - First Assistant Director, McG - Director, Mic Rodgers - Second Unit Director, Wayne Wahrman - Editor, Betty Thomas - Executive Producer, Patrick Crowley - Executive Producer, Jenno Topping - Executive Producer, Yuen Cheung-Yan - Fights Choreographer, Ed Shearmur - Composer (Music Score), Tom Saviano - Musical Arrangement, John Houlihan - Musical Direction/Supervision, J. Michael Riva - Production Designer, Russell Carpenter - Cinematographer, Drew Barrymore - Producer, Leonard J. Goldberg - Producer, Nancy Juvonen - Producer, Lauri Gaffin - Set Designer, Willie D. Burton - Sound/Sound Designer, Mic Rodgers - Stunts Coordinator, Tim Trella - Stunts Coordinator, John August - Screen Story, John August - Screenwriter, Cormac Wibberley - Screenwriter, Marianne Wibberley - Screenwriter, Jonathan P.B. Taylor - Additional Cinematography, Mark Stetson - Visual Effects Supervisor, Tom Saviano - Musical Performer, The Orphanage - Visual Effects
