History Film / CharliesAngels

* CombatPragmatist: The Angels and Madison Lee display moments of this trope. For Madison she is quick to go for her guns the first chance she gets shooting the Angels in her first fight with them. However, in the first encounter the Angels are savvy enough to wear kevlar under their clothes and in the second encounter use a pair of whips to disarm Madison of her guns. In the climactic battle, Madison kicks a piece of the stage at Natalie and holds her at gunpoint. She pretty much has her dead to rights until the other [[BigDamnHeroes two Angels come to Natalie's rescue.]]

** Dylan can also be seen wearing a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' themed disguise at the start of the first film. Drew Barrymore is a massive fan of the series.
** Jason (played by Matt [=LeBlanc=]) is an actor and a bit of a ditz. [[Series/{{Friends}} Sound familiar]]?
** Creator/BillMurray [[Film/{{Caddyshack}} mentions talking to a squirrel]].

** Natalie also falls into this.

* AmazonBrigade: The Angels
* BadassInANiceSuit: The Thin Man.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Eric Knox]].

* TheDitz: Natalie has her moments.

* {{Fanservice}}: Very prominent, as it was in the original TV shows.

* HilariousOuttakes \ DancePartyEnding : The credits to the film.

* JiggleShow: The original series was the TropeMaker, and the movies followed in its footsteps.

* MotorMouth: Lucy Liu's character.
* MysteriousEmployer: Charlie. Pretty much the premise.

* ThePollyanna: Natalie. The film's DVD commentary explicitly describes her as such.

* RuleOfCool / RuleOfFunny: Generally the tone of both films. Also, it's the only reason Bosley is able to make a gun out of soap.

* SlowMotion: ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' style.
* TheVoice: Charlie.

** Creator/CarrieFisher [[Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack plays a nun]].

* AssKickingPose: The film is the TropeNamer.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Madison Lee]].

** Natalie's boyfriend, Pete, attended his high school reunion. At [[Film/{{Grease}} Rydell High]].

* TattooedCrook: Seamus.

!!The movies provide examples of:

** When Dylan uses a flamethrower in ''Full Throttle'', the song "[[Music/TheProdigy Firestarter]]" plays, as a reference to Creator/DrewBarrymore's role in the film ''Film/{{Firestarter}}''.
** In the first film, the house in which the two kids are playing a videogame when a naked Dylan comes knocking is the same house from ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.
** Dylan can also be seen wearing a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' themed disguise at the start of the first film. Drew Barrymore is a massive fan of the series.

** Creator/BruceWillis plays the first federal agent [[spoiler:Madison Lee (Creator/DemiMoore)]] kills. Guess that divorce wasn't as amicable as they made it seem...
** In the sequel, Creator/CarrieFisher [[Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack plays a nun]].

* AlasPoorVillain:
** [[spoiler:While there’s still some satisfaction in his death, all Eric Knox wanted was to get revenge on his father’s killer and just so happened to believe it was Charlie. It turns out Knox had his facts wrong: his father was murdered by enemy soldiers when it came out that he was a double agent.]]
** [[spoiler:The Thin Man because of his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: It is somewhat of a RunningGag throughout the movies that Dylan always falls for the bad guy. Example: [[spoiler:Eric Knox (who she sleeps with, although this is before she knows that he's the BigBad)]] and [[spoiler:the Thin Man]] (who was originally going to kiss Alex, according to the filmmakers, but they changed it to Dylan, in keeping with her lust for bad boys). In the second film, she also lusts after one of the villainous henchmen, and it is later revealed that, in her past, she was in a relationship with [[spoiler:Seamus O'Grady]].

* AssKickingPose: The second film is the TropeNamer.

* BadassBiker: Natalie, Thin Man, Max, Randy Emmers, and Pink's cameo character.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Eric Knox]] in the first movie, and [[spoiler:Madison Lee]] in the second movie.

* TheCameo: In the second movie, rapper Eve and Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen 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 (LL Cool J, Pink and Carey Hart to name a few).
* CarSkiing: The first movie shows a flashback in which Natalie pulls one off during her driving exam. EstablishingCharacterMoment for her BadassDriver and ImprobablePilotingSkills.

* CerebusRetcon: At the beginning of the first film, Natalie jokes that [[spoiler: Vivian Wood was responsible for Knox's kidnapping and was playing the WoundedGazelleGambit]]. [[EvilAllAlong Guess what happens...]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The three angels - Alex is often in black, Dylan in red and Natalie in White. Goes with them being a BlondeBrunetteRedhead trio.
* CombatStilettos: Mandatory equipment for any ActionGirl or DarkActionGirl in these flicks.
* ContinuityNod: Kelly Garrett from the original series appears in the second movie, still being played by Jaclyn Smith.
* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler: Madison Lee and Vivian Wood]].

* DoesntLikeGuns: The Angels never use firearms. This was on Drew Barrymore's insistence, because she was uncomfortable around firearms. Is given a continuity nod in the sequel when the BigBad chuckles at their ass-kicking pose and remarks that back in her day, Angels used guns. Cue DualWielding golden [[HandCannon Desert Eagles]].

* TheDragon: The Thin Man is this for [[spoiler:Eric Knox]] in the first movie.
* DramaticShattering: 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.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Well, sort of -- more like the entire name is embarrassing: in the second movie, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Dylan Sanders used to be named Helen Zass (just say it out loud...), but had to change it after being placed in the WitnessProtection Program]].

* EveryoneKnowsMorse: While hiding in the dark from Seamus's gun-toting mooks, the women silently communicate via tapping Morse into each other's palms before the lights come back on.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Madison Lee]] prior to the events of ''Full Throttle''

* GameShowAppearance: Alex is a five-day ''GameShow/{{Jeopardy}}'' champion.

* GunsAkimbo: Taken up to downright ridiculous amounts in the second movie with Madison dual-wielding Desert Eagles ([[HandCannon .50 Action Express]] for sure) and the Mongolian with two [[MoreDakka machine guns]] (not assault rifles or [=SMGs=] but one [=PKM=] and one [[CoolGuns MG42]]). See also LawOfInverseRecoil.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The Thin Man]] in ''Full Throttle''.
* HerosEvilPredecessor: BigBad Madison.
* HilariousOuttakes \ DancePartyEnding : The credits to the first film.
* HollywoodSkydiving: The opening action scene of the first film.

* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: In the first movie, Dylan orders three burgers, three fries, three shakes, and three apple pies. She turns to the others and asks them what'll they have.

* MadeOfExplodium: Every bike that gets shot or falls over in the second film's dirt bike race scene.

* MythologyGag: A few. Most notably, Jaclyn Smith appears as a past Angel.
* NakedOnArrival: The Angels in ''Full Throttle'', bursting out of an angelic statue in the buff with strategically placed lighting. In the first film, they also strip off their wetsuits on the way to the Big Bad's stronghold, and it's made clear there's nothing underneath. Both sequences then cut to them having made a clothing change in the meantime.

* PacManFever: A particularly miserable case in the first movie, with a scene where two kids are playing ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', a single-player RolePlayingGame, simultaneously, by mashing buttons on their controllers.
* PlotBasedPhotographObfuscation: The photograph in the first movie.

* ThePollyanna: Natalie. The first film's DVD commentary explicitly describes her as such.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:The Thin Man]] in the second movie [[spoiler:(although, given what he was able to survive in the first movie, there is a '''lot''' of speculation that he may actually still be alive)]].

* SelfDeprecation: The opening scene of the first film has the in-flight movie "''Series/TJHooker'': [[TheFilmOfTheSeries The Movie]]". The reaction is "Another movie from an old TV show."
* SequelNonEntity: Bosley is conspiciously 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.

** In the first movie, the scene where Bosley is kept prisoner in the tower contains references to ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' and ''Film/BirdmanOfAlcatraz''. The "soap gun" is also a reference to John Dillinger's famous escape.

** In the second movie, Natalie's boyfriend, Pete, attended his high school reunion. At [[Film/{{Grease}} Rydell High]].
** When the Angels visit the abbey in the second movie, "The Lonely Goatherd" from ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'' can be heard in the background.

* TheSpeechless: 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). [[spoiler:He does make a valiant attempt to speak later on, but he doesn't manage to get the words out... and is stabbed before Dylan (and the audience) get to find out if he can]].
* TattooedCrook: Seamus.
* {{Troperiffic}}: ''[[{{Pun}} Full Throttle]]''. (Probably completely intentional.)
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailers and marketing for ''Full Throttle'' played up [[spoiler:Madison Lee]]'s status as the BigBad despite it being presented in the film as a surprise twist.

* ToplessnessFromTheBack: In the first film, the Angels make their way to [[spoiler: Eric Knox's]] hideout by sea and take off their wetsuits when approaching, the camera cutting away to their bare backs as they strip.

* YouKilledMyFather: In the first movie, [[spoiler:Eric Knox]] wants to kill [[spoiler:Charlie]], as he (mistakenly) believes him to have killed his father.

* GameShowAppearance: Alex is a five-day''GameShow/Jeopardy'' champion.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In-universe; at the beginning of the first film, Natalie jokes that [[spoiler: Vivian Wood was responsible for Knox's kidnapping and was playing the WoundedGazelleGambit]]. [[EvilAllAlong Guess what happens...]]

* CallBack: 'Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel' plays at the start and end.

* AccidentalInnuendo: Invoked with Natalie, who does this in both films without realizing it.

* DoesntLikeGuns: The Angels never use firearms. This was on Drew Barrymore's insistence, because she was uncomfortable around firearms. Is given a continuity nod in the sequel when the BigBad chuckles at their ass-kicking pose and remarks that back in her day, Angels used guns. Cue DualWielding golden Desert Eagles.

* DepravedBiSexual: Eric Knox. It ''is'' Sam Rockwell, after all.

It is worth noting that the movie series is '''not''' a ContinuityReboot of the series, but a continuation. These movies star Creator/CameronDiaz (Natalie), Creator/LucyLiu (Alex) and Creator/DrewBarrymore (Dylan) as the Angels, with John Forsythe returning as the voice of Charlie. 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.

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'''Music/LLCoolJ:''' I think you mean 'crazy ''bitch'''. (Takes off mask to reveal Dylan)

'''LLCoolJ:''' I think you mean 'crazy ''bitch'''. (Takes off mask to reveal Dylan)

* {{Troperiffic}}: ''[[IncrediblyLamePun Full Throttle]]''. (Probably completely intentional.)

* CallBack: Heaven, Must Be Filled With Angels plays at the start and end.

It is worth noting that the movie series is '''not''' a ContinuityReboot of the series, but a continuation. These movies star Creator/CameronDiaz, Creator/LucyLiu and Creator/DrewBarrymore as the Angels, with John Forsythe returning as the voice of Charlie. 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.

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* MoonwalkDance: When a number of Knox's goons attempt to take out Dylan, whose tied to a chair, Dylan describes to them, step-by-step, how she's going to knock each and every one of them out, and finish by moonwalking out of the room. Guess what follows?

* MythologyGag:

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* NakedOnArrival: The Angels in ''Full Throttle''.

* {{Adorkable}}: Eric Knox is a "warm, fuzzy" kind of guy. [[spoiler: It's all an act]].
** Natalie also falls into this.

* DoubleEntendre: Natalie loves these ([[InnocentInnuendo although she seems to use them unintentionally]]).
** Also, this exchange between Alex and Corwin (who thinks she's a masseuse):

** Although he was seen eating [[FridgeHorror puffer fish]] in the first film...
** RealLifeWritesThePlot: Although initial rumors persisted of Bill Murray not returning because of his friction with Lucy Liu during the first film, he actually turned the film down in favor of filming ''Film/LostInTranslation''.
* ShoutOut: In the first movie, the scene where Bosley is kept prisoner in the tower contains references to ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' and ''Film/BirdmanOfAlcatraz''. 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 ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', 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 [[{{Grease}} Rydell High]].

** RealLifeWritesThePlot: The character was written with dialogue for the first movie, but his actor, [[Film/BackToTheFuture Crispin Glover]], disliked his lines and asked that they be removed.

** When the Angels visit the abbey in the second movie, "The Lonely Goatherd" from ''TheSoundOfMusic'' can be heard in the background.