Charlie's Angels (film)



A 2000 adaptation of the TV show, starring Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore as the angels, with John Forsythe returning as the voice of Charlie. A 2003 sequel followed.

The first movie opened in the United States on October 22 2000. It grossed more than $125 million at the U.S. box office and grossed over $260 million worldwide. The sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle opened in the United States on June 27, 2003, and was number one at the box office for that weekend and made a worldwide total of more than $259 million.


 * Absolute Cleavage: Some of Natalie's outfits.
 * All Girls Want Bad Boys: It is somewhat of a Running Gag throughout the movies that Dylan always falls for the bad guy. Example: and . In the second film, she also lusts after one of the villainous henchmen, and it is later revealed that, in her past,.
 * Asskicking Pose: the second film is the Trope Namer.
 * Big Bad: in the first movie, and  in the second movie.
 * Big No
 * Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
 * Bullet Time
 * The Cameo: In the second movie, rapper Eve and The Olsen Twins make cameo appearances (presumably as themselves) in Dylan's imagination (in which she imagines a future with an ever-changing Angel line-up). Other celebrities, playing different characters, also pop up for cameo appearances.
 * Car Skiing: The first movie shows a flashback in which Natalie pulls one off during her driving exam.
 * Continuity Nod: Kelly Garrett from the original series appears in the second movie, still being played by Jaclyn Smith.
 * Dark Action Girl:.
 * Disney Villain Death
 * The Ditz: Natalie from the movie series has her moments.
 * Don't Sneak Up On Me Like That: This happens a lot to Jason.
 * Double Entendre: Natalie loves these (although she seems to make them unintentionally).
 * The Dragon: The Thin Man is this for in the first movie.
 * Dramatic Shattering: When Dylan encounters Seamus again for the first time in years, she drops the champagne bottle she's holding in shock and fear, causing it to shatter to pieces.
 * Embarrassing First Name: Well, sort of -- more like the entire name is embarrassing: in the second movie, it is revealed that
 * Face Heel Turn: in the second movie.
 * Fetish: The Thin Man has one for hair.
 * Foot Focus: Alex, posing as a masseuse, gives Corwin a rather violent massage with her feet. She then uses one of her feet to render him unconscious.
 * Guns Akimbo: Taken up to downright ridiculous amounts in the second movie with Madison dual-wielding Desert Eagles (.50 Action Express for sure) and the Mongolian with two machine guns (not assault rifles or SMGs but one PKM and one MG42). See also Law of Inverse Recoil.
 * Hair Flip: Used very often and very intentionally, to the point of parody.
 * Heel Face Turn: in the second movie.
 * Hollywood Skydiving: The opening action scene of the first film.
 * Hot Chick in a Badass Suit: The leather business suit that Alex wears in the first movie. Complete with sexy specs.
 * Lean and Mean: The Thin Man, hence the name.
 * Lethal Chef: Alex. Her blueberry muffins are so rock hard that one of them ends up embedded in a door.
 * Made of Explodium: Every bike that gets shot or falls over in the second film's dirt bike race scene.
 * Male Gaze: The movies never shy away from booty focus. So much that the cast actually spoofed it in this video.
 * Naked on Arrival: The Angels in Full Throttle.
 * Never Bring a Knife to A Fist Fight
 * No Name Given: The Thin Man is only ever referred to as this (either that, or "Creepy Thin Man") for the first movie - the second movie, however, reveals that his real name is
 * On a Soundstage All Along: Parodied. "CURSE YOU, SALAZAAAAAAAR!!"
 * Pac-Man Fever: A particularly miserable case in the first movie, with a scene where two kids are playing Final Fantasy VIII, a single-player Role Playing Game, simultaneously, by mashing buttons on their controllers.
 * Plot Based Photograph Obfuscation: The photograph in the first movie.
 * Rare Guns: Handguns in both movies are Desert Eagles rather than not, including one that Bosley carves from a block of soap with his teeth in the first movie (never mind the Desert Eagle being more than twice as large as any piece of soap out there). Oh, and Madison has got two gold-plated ones.
 * Redemption Equals Death: in the second movie
 * Rule of Cool / Rule of Funny: Generally the tone of both films. Also, it's the only reason Bosley is able to make a gun out of soap.
 * Sequel Non Entity: Bosley is conspicuously absent (save for a photo on his family's wall) in the sequel, having been replaced by his adoptive brother. Despite the fact that Bosley appeared to be beloved by the Angels in the first film, here they never seem to miss him for even a moment -- nor is his absence (and current whereabouts) ever explained.
 * Real Life Writes the Plot: Apparently, on-set friction between Bill Murray and Lucy Liu was downright venomous, so when sequel time came, the more essential castmember was retained.
 * Shout-Out: In the first movie, the scene where Bosley is kept prisoner in the tower contains references to The Great Escape and The Birdman of Alcatraz. The "soap gun" is also a reference to John Dillinger's famous escape.
 * Also, when Dylan falls into the garden of the house where two kids are playing games, it is actually the same house from ET the Extraterrestrial, which starred a very young Drew Barrymore. Not only that, but an E.T. poster can also be found in this scene.
 * Additionally in the second movie, Natalie's boyfriend, Pete, attended his high school reunion. At Rydell High.
 * When the Angels visit the abbey in the second movie, "The Lonely Goatherd" from The Sound of Music can be heard in the background.
 * The Speechless: The Thin Man doesn't speak a word throughout the movie series. In the second film, it is revealed that he has been a mute since childhood (it is implied to be due to the trauma of losing his parents at a young age).
 * Real Life Writes the Plot: The character was written with dialogue for the first movie, but his actor, Crispin Glover, disliked his lines and asked that they be removed.
 * Tattooed Crook: Seamus.
 * Trailers Always Spoil: The trailers and marketing for Full Throttle played up status as the Big Bad despite it being presented in the film as a surprise twist.
 * Troperiffic: Full Throttle (probably completely intentional).
 * With My Hands Tied: Dylan knocks out three bad guys (after describing in detail what she would do) while tied to a broken chair.
 * A Worldwide Punomenon: Eh, the whole second movie.
 * You Killed My Father: In the first movie, wants to kill, as he (mistakenly) believes him to have killed his father.