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2	[[caption-width-right:300:''"Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique."'']]
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4	''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle'' is the sequel to the [[Film/CharliesAngels2000 film adaptation]] of ''Series/CharliesAngels''. It was directed by [=McG=].
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6	The Angels--Natalie (Creator/CameronDiaz), Dylan (Creator/DrewBarrymore), and Alex (Creator/LucyLiu) 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 (Creator/DemiMoore).
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9	!!''Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle'' contains examples of:
10	* AcademicAthlete: {{Flashback}}s reveal Alex was both a champion gymnast and a chess player in her youth.
11	* ActorAllusion:
12	** When Dylan uses a flamethrower, the song "[[Music/TheProdigy Firestarter]]" plays, as a reference to Creator/DrewBarrymore's role in the film ''Film/{{Firestarter}}''.
13	** 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...
14	** When Creator/RobertPatrick meets up with his partner in crime, [[spoiler:she greets him by blasting him in the chest several times. Unfortunately he isn't [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay an indestructable robot who can shrug off such gunfire]] this time around.]]
15	* AdrenalineTime: Used a lot during action scenes, with lots of slow-mo jumps and flips. Most notable during TheReveal that [[spoiler: Madison is the BigBad, with her dramatically jumping down from the ceiling in slow motion, to it speeding up as the hits the floor and does a HairFlip]].
16	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The Thin Man because of his HeelFaceTurn.]]
17	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Angels deduce that Randy is a villain because Dylan immediately starts lusting after him, and it is later revealed that, in her past, she was in a relationship with [[spoiler:Seamus O'Grady]].
18	* AscendedExtra: Natalie's LoveInterest Pete gets a bigger role here.
19	* AssKickingPose: The film is the TropeNamer, as the Angels commonly struck in combat poses in choreographic unison before a fight. The BigBad derisively calls it "The Angels ass-kicking pose" when she sees it.
20	* BadHabits: The angels disguise themselves as nuns at one point, to find information about the Creepy Thin Man
21	* BadassBiker: Natalie, Thin Man, Max, Randy Emmers, and the Coal Bowl MC (Music/{{Pink}}'s cameo character).
22	* BarehandedBladeBlock: Seamus catches the Thin Man's sword this way, who responds by kicking him off the rooftop.
23	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: In the final fight with [[BigBad Madison]], the Angels got serious injuries that in real life might need medical treatments, particularly when they get thrown from a speeding car. Nevertheless, after defeating Madison, the Angels could attend Alex's boyfriend, Jason's, movie premiere looking pristine and fine.
24	* BetweenMyLegs: This shot is used during the first confrontation between the Angels and [[spoiler: Madison]].
25	* BigBad: [[spoiler:Madison Lee, the "fallen angel". She planned to steal the list of people currently in the WitnessProtection program and sell it to the highest bidder among several criminal groups, while also hoping to kill the Angels, Bosley and Charlie.]]
26	* BigNO: When Seamus [[InTheBack stabs Thin Man in the back]] after she just befriends with the latter, the distraught Dylan screams "no" upon watching Thin Man falling to the ground.
27	* BigWHAT: When Dylan (briefly) leaves after Seamus threatens to kill her fellow Angels, Natalie and Alex are aware of her reason and react this way when Charlie informs them that Seamus is released[[note]]with Ray Carter’s help[[/note]], not escape.
28	* BlingBlingBang: No, it isn't enough for [[spoiler: Madison]] to have a gun (the Angels don't use guns anymore in general in this film). No, a Desert Eagle isn't sufficient either. Nor are [[GunsAkimbo two of them]]. No, they have to be gold-plated.
29	* BondOneLiner: After the BigBad, [[spoiler:former Angel Madison Lee]], got engulfed by a sea of flames:
30	-->'''Alex:''' She is ''so'' [[{{Pun}} fired]].
31	* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: Teenage Natalie had outside-the-face braces. Even after the {{flashback}}, which showed that despite this she grew up to be a super-hottie, she still had the [[TheKlutz klutzy geekiness]] and was an unpopular girl at heart.
32	* BrokenPedestal: The Angels, especially Natalie, are huge fans of [[spoiler:former Angel Madison Lee. Not so much after she's revealed to be the villain]].
33	* BulletproofVest: The Angels use them to stop rounds fired from the BigBad's twin [[HandGun Desert Eagles]], dusting themselves off and keeping it moving like nothing happened. In reality, the vests would provide very little if any protection against such high-caliber rounds. One could easily still die, and at the very least would be incapacitated with severe internal injuries and broken bones.
34	* CallBack:
35	** Natalie's love of tickets and ability to spontaneously cause a room to dance return.
36	** In the Uncut version, there's an extended fight scene at the Irish dock where Dylan tries to buy time during the fight against Seamus by spreading her legs and saying "wait! wait! wait!", the same way she did with Knox's mooks when she was tied to a chair and (originally) needed to buy time so she could escape her bonds. Unlike the mooks, who did pause to listen to her, Seamus just immediately punches her.
37	* TheCameo: 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, such as Music/{{Pink}} and Carey Hart to name a few.
38	* CastingGag: Creator/CarrieFisher plays a nun, which she also did in ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack''.
39	* ChekhovsGun: Played straight when Bosley points out the girls' custom-made Kevlar vests that later save them when they get shot by [[spoiler:Madison]].
40	* CircusBrat: The Thin Man is revealed (in a detailed flashback) to have been the child of Romanian circus performers who died in a fire.
41	* 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 they use a pair of whips to disarm Madison. 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.]]
42	* ContinuityNod: Kelly Garrett from the original series appears, still being played by Creator/JaclynSmith.
43	* CreepyGood: [[spoiler:The Thin Man is still clearly all kinds of creepy, but it turns out this time he is actually a good guy, attempting to save the life of a child under the Witness Protection Program]].
44	* CutApart: There are scenes of some mafia groups making their way to the rooftop of a certain hotel. Then there's a scene of [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn former Angel]] Madison Lee]] getting ready to meet them. As the groups gathered at the rooftop, faces to the door, [[spoiler:Madison]] makes her way to a door, ready to meet them. Then... the door the groups were waiting at opens... to reveal a police inspector who puts them under arrest, then snipers from the surrounding buildings show up and the groups are taken in. [[spoiler:Madison]] meanwhile, opens the door and sees nobody. The gangs had met at the rooftop of the ''wrong'' hotel, set up by the Angels.
45	* DarkActionGirl: The "fallen angel" who's even better at fighting than the other Angels being able to fight all three at once.
46	* DarkerAndEdgier: Although it's largely the same brand of comedy down to a lot of near-identical gags as the first film, it's not as purely comedic as Dylan's backstory is fleshed out and partly PlayedForDrama, the fights are more brutal, the angels get in much more precarious situations, and even the villains (especially if you include The Thin Man) are more rounded. The story also raises the question of whether life changes will cause the trio will disband, [[spoiler:which does briefly happen.]] They even manage to cram in some undertones of domestic violence (explored through Dylan and Seamus' dynamic).
47	* DeadStarWalking: Creator/BruceWillis shows up just long enough to get shot in the head.
48	* DeathByCameo: Creator/BruceWillis appears as a government agent protecting one of two rings that forms a top-secret government list. As he gets on his private jet, he is almost immediately held up by a masked assailant who takes the ring from him, and then shoots him point-blank in the head (off-screen). We later find out that his assailant is an [[spoiler: ex-Angel played by Creator/DemiMoore, who is Willis' ex-wife. Subtle revenge, perhaps?]].
49	* DiesWideOpen: {{Subverted\|Trope}}: The film depicts The Angels being shot or in big crashes, falling motionless with their eyes wide open... and then they blink and wake up; they were only unconscious.
50	* DisneyVillainDeath:
51	** Both [[spoiler:Seamus and The Thin Man die by falling off a building]].
52	** The BigBad falls into a fire (which she started herself thanks to her falling through the floor and firing her guns up at the Angels while in the midst of a lot of escaping gas). If you listen closely, you can hear her scream even after she's hit the bottom.
53	* DoesntLikeGuns: The Angels' habit of doing this is given a continuity nod 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]].
54	* 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.
55	* ElderlyFutureFantasy: When Dylan and Alex discuss about who would leave first among them after Natalie and her boyfriend, Pete, are now moving in together, Dylan imagines how it would be if one by one of her fellow Angels, Natalie and Alex, retire and replaced in the future; being the only Angel who works for Charlie until old age.
56	* EmbarrassingLastName: 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 Witness Protection Program.
57	* EveryoneKnowsMorse: The Angel are surrounded by Seamus and an army of gun-toting {{Mooks}}, but Alex is able to KillTheLights, forcing blind fire while the women slip (or, rather, front-flip) behind them. While the {{Mooks}} scramble for the lights, the trio silently communicates via tapping Morse into each other's palms before the lights come back on.
58	* EvilWearsBlack: Just like in the previous film, the BigBad starts wearing dark clothing after TheReveal.
59	* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Madison Lee]] prior to the events of ''Full Throttle''
60	* FallenHero: The BigBad is [[spoiler:Madison Lee, a former Angel who decided to become a criminal after a failed mission in which she nearly lost her life]].
61	* FamilyFriendlyStripper: The Angels go undercover at a sleazy strip club filled with criminals. Instead of strippers, we get a Music/PussycatDolls dance number and the only nudity comes from Natalie accidentally getting [[WardrobeMalfunction her top ripped off]] by Alex's whip (and she still preserves her modesty via GodivaHair and HandOrObjectUnderwear).
62	* FatalAttractor: Alex lampshades Dylan's tendency to get attracted to villains by jokingly confirming Randy is an assassin when Dylan starts [[EatingTheEyeCandy checking him out]].
63	--> '''Alex''': Check it out. Brown shorts, red board, 11 o'clock. What do you think?\
64	'''Dylan''': Yummy!\
65	'''Alex''': That's what I thought. Case closed. Nat, move in. Dylan thinks he's hot.\
66	'''Dylan''': What do you mean?\
67	'''Alex''': You always fall for the bad guy.
68	* FiringOneHanded: [[spoiler:Madison's]] only fires her Desert Eagles [[GunsAkimbo two-handed]]. And yes, this does require the RuleOfCool to keep those {{Hand Cannon}}s from [[LawOfInverseRecoil spraining people's wrists or knocking out their teeth]] like they would do in RealLife.
69	* FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss: When Dylan briefly quit as an Angel, she goes to a cafe in Mexico. As she enters, a man spanks her ass. The first time, she doesn't respond, but the second time when she intends to go back as an Angel, she responds by throwing him until he hits the arcade game.
70	* GroinAttack: In the opening, Alex gives one for one of the Mongolians upon rescuing Agent Carter.
71	* GunsAkimbo:
72	** Early in the film there's a Mongolian with two [[MoreDakka belt-fed machine guns in full-auto mode]] (not assault rifles or [=SMGs=] but one [=PKM=] and one [=MG42=]).
73	** Taken up to downright ridiculous amounts with the BigBad's dual-wielding [[BlingBlingBang golden]] Desert Eagles ([[HandCannon .50 Action Express]] for sure) and there's [[LawOfInverseRecoil absolutely no recoil when they get fired.]]
74	* HappilyAdopted: A brief HandWave explains that the first film's Bosley (Creator/BillMurray) was adopted many years ago by the mother of the new Bosley (Creator/BernieMac).
75	* HateSink: Seamus O'Grady is an Irish mobster who dated and was put away by Dylan who ended up in WitnessProtection because of it. Released early from prison, he taunts and fights Dylan and threatens to kill her friends Natalie and Alex just to hurt her even more. During the climax, O'Grady [[spoiler:kills the Thin Man by stabbing him InTheBack with his own blade]].
76	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The Thin Man turns out unexpectedly on the Angel's side this time around.]]
77	* HerosEvilPredecessor: [[spoiler:Madison was a former Angel to Charlie. In the movie, she turns evil and tries to expose Charlie and kill the current Angels. And unlike this incarnation of the Angels, she uses guns]].
78	* HollywoodFire: ImplacableMan Seamus O'Grady survives a roaring inferno, walking out of the fire like he's a Terminator. There is no InUniverse explanation for this.
79	* InTheBack:
80	** Dylan attempts to kick [[spoiler:Madison]] in the back while she's talking to Alex and Natalie, only for [[spoiler:Madison]] to [[PunchCatch casually catch it]] without [[OffhandBackhand even turning around]].
81	** Seamus impales [[spoiler: the Thin Man from behind with his own sword]].
82	* TheIrishMob: Dylan's [[PsychoExBoyfriend ex-with-a-vengeance]] and the BigBad's TheDragon, Seamus, is an Irish mobster.
83	* MadeOfExplodium: Every bike that gets shot or falls over in the dirt bike race scene.
84	* MadeOfIron: The Angels are often get hit, kicked, thrown and land on a hard surface or objects with a hard thud, but they always manage to get up and fight again 'till their last breathe.
85	** Seamus walks out of an inferno unarmed and [[spoiler:Madison]] is thrown from a car moving 40 or 50mph and not only survives but continues to fight.
86	* MythologyGag: A few. Most notably, Kelly Garrett appears as a past Angel.
87	* NeverGetsDrunk: The film opens with Dylan drinking a Cossack under the table, then soberly executing her part of a plan to rescue a hostage.
88	* NakedOnArrival: The Angels bursting out of an angelic statue in the buff with [[CensorShadow strategically placed lighting]]. The sequence then cuts to them having made a clothing change in the meantime.
89	* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Alex's boyfriend starts complaining about Charlie, causing her distraught father to think that Charlie is some kind of pimp. It doesn't get any better when Alex takes over, her dialogue is full of AccidentalInnuendo:
90	-->'''Alex:''' I'm so sorry Daddy, that I didn't tell you. I didn't think you'd approve and I didn't wanna disappoint you. I know how you wanted me to be a neurosurgeon. But I've discovered a whole new way to help people... that makes me feel so... alive.\
91	'''Mr. Munday:''' Whatever makes you happy.\
92	'''Alex:''' I am so relieved! It's been killing me, you not knowing all these years. I- Daddy... Natalie, Dylan and I are a team. And we just took on 12 sailors. You can't even imagine the positions we get ourselves into. Daddy, I wish you could watch us work. You'd be so proud. I'm gonna take a shower because I am covered in- Well, you can only imagine what. And then when I get back, I am gonna give you... a full blow-by-blow.
93	* PoliceCodeForEverything: An illegal chinchilla ranch on the premises is an 11-350.
94	* ProductPlacement: The film has a lot of {{cool car}}s, and the DVD even had a special featurette to showcase them all.
95	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:The Thin Man (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)]].
96	* SarcasticClapping: After revealing herself as [[spoiler:the culprit]] behind the case the Angels are investigating and the Angels mention all of the evidences that point to her, [[BigBad Madison Lee]] gives a mocking applause before shooting the Angels. [[spoiler:Thankfully, the Angels survive her shot as they wear kevlars for protection]].
97	* SatanicArchetype: The BigBad backstory is clearly an allegory of the story of Satan. [[spoiler:Fallen angel? Get it? Hence why she's often depicted against fiery backgrounds. When she dies, she's told to "Go to Hell" and gets kicked through a board on a stage and shoots an opened gas pipe as she falls, causing her to be engulfed in flames, with the scene making it look likes she's being DraggedOffToHell]].
98	* SequelNonEntity: Bosley is conspicuously absent (save for a photo on his family's wall), 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.
99	* SerendipitousSurvival: When the Angels are trying to figure out Ray Carter's cryptic message on the way to stop [[spoiler:Madison]], Natalie has a "aha!" moment that, being Natalie, has her start dancing, which causes everyone to stop and try to figure out what she's doing until she explains that he was talking about star names on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (dancing was for Fred Astaire). Had she not caused them to stop, they would have been in or near their car when it exploded, instead of enough feet away to only get knocked backward uninjured.
100	* SexySurfacingShot: During the [[BeachEpisode beach scene]] both Natalie, Madison and Randy get {{fanservice}} shots of them coming out of the ocean while jogging towards the camera, with the girls in bikinis and him {{shirtless\|scene}}.
101	* ShirtlessScene:
102	** Plenty of the male surfers at the beach are shirtless.
103	** Seamus O’Grady is shirtless throughout the scene at the docks where he and his goons take on the Angels. He is even shirtless whilst walking through fire.
104	* ShoutOut:
105	** Natalie's boyfriend, Pete, attended his high school reunion. At Rydell High, the school featured in ''Film/{{Grease}}''.
106	** Creator/BruceWillis' character is named William Rose Bailey, a mix of [[Music/GunsNRoses Axl Rose's]] real names.
107	** When the Angels visit the abbey, "The Lonely Goatherd" from ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'' can be heard in the background.
108	** Seamus' release from prison is an almost shot-for-shot of Max Cady's release in the remake of ''Film/CapeFear'', along with the score from the film playing any time Seamus does something creepy.
109	** Seamus emerges from the flames just like the T-800 in the original ''Film/TheTerminator''.
110	** When The Angels disguise themselves as forensic experts to investigate a crime scene, "Who Are You", by Music/TheWho as a reference to ''Series/{{CSI}}''.
111	* SoftGlass: In the opening, when escaping from the Mongolians, Natalie smashes the car window bare-handed yet her hand remains clean, unharmed. Later, when Alex is thrown away from Madison's speeding car and crashes into a store window, yet she got just a few scratches and bruises.
112	* TheSpeechless: It is revealed that The Thin Man has been 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]].
113	* SpottingTheThread: Seamus is able to deduce that his crew is being led to a trap by [[spoiler:looking at the bellboy's ass, which looks suspiciously similar to Dylan's.]]
114	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:The Angels find out that Madison Lee is the main villain and engage her in combat. She responds by pulling guns out and shooting them. Thankfully, they're wearing body armour]].
115	* TakeThatKiss: [[spoiler: Madison Lee gives one to Natalie on the cheek ''complete with saliva strains'' as she holds her at gunpoint.]]
116	* ATaleToldByAnIdiot: Whenever Alex tries to tell her father what she, Natalie and Dylan really do, she makes it sound less like they're an elite team of secret agents and more like they're a trio of prostitutes. Not helped by her boyfriend Jason, who assumed her father knew about her spy work and explains some of her job's undercover antics without any context.
117	* TattooedCrook: Seamus TheIrishMob thug who has tattoos all over his arms, neck and back to symbolize his criminal nature.
118	* TimeForPlanB: Three times throughout the film.
119	** When the Angels are caught rescuing the hostage US Marshal Ray Carter.
120	** When BigBad [[spoiler:Madison Lee's original plan to sell off the names in the WitnessProtection falls through, she plans to use a grenade to blow up a nearby Hollywood movie premiere]].
121	** The Angels' counter-plan to [[spoiler:Madison's]] Plan B, where [[spoiler:Bosley protects the crowd from the grenade she throws by smacking it back into the air before it explodes, making the crowd think the explosion was [[SureLetsGoWithThat part of the action film's promotion]]]].
122	--->'''Bosley:''' Plan B stands for Plan Bosley!
123	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailers and marketing played up [[spoiler:Madison Lee]]'s status as the BigBad despite it being presented in the film as a surprise twist.
124	* {{Troperiffic}}: Right to the name "''[[{{Pun}} Full Throttle]]''". (Probably completely intentional.)
125	* VariableTerminalVelocity: An attack helicopter is set onto a flatbed truck with its rotors locked for transport. The truck crashes and the chopper falls off a dam. The Angels are able to dive off the dam, catch the helicopter, unlock the rotors, spin up the engine, and fly away before it hits the ground.
126	* WaxingLyrical: The Angels decide to pose as nightclub dancers.
127	-->'''Natalie:''' Do a little dance?\
128	'''Dylan:''' Make a little love?\
129	'''Alex:''' Get down tonight.
130	* WhipOfDominance: When the Angels are going undercover as strip dancers in a bar, Alex once again plays the role of a {{Dominatrix}}, this time with an actual whip that she cracks around, and even uses it to spank Dylan and Natalie.
131	* WitnessProtection: [[spoiler:Madison's]] plan is to steal the list of people currently in the witness protection program and sell it to the highest bidder among several criminal groups. It turns out [[spoiler:Dylan]] is one of the names on the list due to [[spoiler:turning in evidence against Seamus after witnessing him murdering someone.]]
132	* WoundedGazelleGambit: The opening has the Angels rescuing Ray Carter who later talks of having suffered a few broken ribs. After he gets the "data rings," Carter is heading out and Bosley tosses his keys over which Carter reaches up to grab easily. Both Alex and Natalie see he shows no signs whatsoever of any pain and realize Carter was faking the injuries which means he was in on this whole thing. They congratulate Bosley for the great bluff to figure it out...and he's completely confused as he had no inkling Carter wasn't hurt and was honestly just tossing the guys the keys.

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