Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 27, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
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12
Mixed:
18
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
VarietyAmy Dawes
Bigger, sleeker and better than the first, sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is a joyride of a movie that takes the winning elements of the year 2000 hit to the next level. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyStaff (Not credited)
Let's face it: Chick power was never this yummy. Read full review
80
TimeRichard Schickel
After “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Hulk,” there's something refreshing about this movie's complete lack of intellectual pretense. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
You may strain to recall just what happened an hour after you see it, but there are so many worse things to have to remember in life. It's a relief to focus on something so attractively amusing. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The movie's glee is contagious. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
The spike-heeled, postfeminist pajama-party sisterhood that is Charlie's Angels is back, and it's serious dress-up time. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
This heavenly sequel, again directed by "McG" (aka Joseph McGinty Nichol), is infused with an irresistibly joyous spirit that simply cannot be faked. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Isn't only the silliest, most ridiculous movie of the summer; it may also be the most flat-out fun. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The main reason I enjoyed this high-powered action flick and its 2001 predecessor is their willingness to poke fun at the premise of crime-fighting dolls, even though it now has more currency than ever. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
A loud and frequently funny clown show, Full Throttle is less a grim demolition derby than a day at Coney Island, punctuated by the clatter and screams of the Cyclone. Read full review
70
The New YorkerDavid Denby
The movie is immensely pleased with itself, in the manner of adorable kids who know they can get away with anything--the commercial opportunism is so self-confident in its silliness that you can’t really fight it. [7 July 2003, p. 84]
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Harmless, brainless, good-natured fun. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
As insistent as it is skillful -- and it is very skillful -- it does all it can to pound you into enjoying yourself. The result is rather like being force-fed a meal of your favorite foods by the Terminator. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
It's a movie devoted to showing it, shaking it and selling it with huge zest and self-delight, a movie that raises MTV-style dada to the status of superheated mama, even though, toward the end, it wears awfully thin rather than svelte.
60
SlateDavid Edelstein
Full Throttle is full-throttle camp: It's like a third-rate Austin Powers picture cut to the whacking, attention-deficit-disorder tempo of "Moulin Rouge." Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
It's flashy, it's often funny ...,and it resembles a movie so much that soon it demands something resembling motivation, character, a plot, anything to explain the seemingly arbitrary connections between the stunts and the skits. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
All of the actresses are fun to watch, and as much attention appears to have been lavished on their outfits and hairdos as on their high-flying fight scenes. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The action is ridiculously overwrought, a state-of-the-art combination of CGI wizardry and Hong Kong-style wirework so removed from the laws of physical reality that it might as well be animated. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
Its purpose is simply to allow you to soak up the happy grrrrl-power vibes of this easy-on-the-eyes trio amid unevenly executed computer-enhanced action scenes, at which points the movie resembles a video game. Read full review
50
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Should have been either a whole lot worse or a whole lot better than it is: If it were worse, we could simply toss aside the things that are fun and entertaining about it and not even think twice. And if it were better -- well, we'd have fewer complaints all around. Read full review
50
NewsweekDavid Ansen
This is one of the silliest movies ever made--and lots of instantly forgettable fun. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
It worked once, but the novelty factor is gone. The cheese is still there, but this time it's overlaid with a cynical sense that the only reason the movie exists is because the first one made so much money. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
Nothing deeper than a stale retread, it seems. And this is coming from a critic who listed the original "Charlie's Angels" movie as one of the top five films of 2000. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
The film is smart enough to know that verbal humor isn't its strong point, but it doesn't offer much in the way of compensation. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Clearly, this is something rare: a movie that insulates itself against its own rottenness by being lousy by design. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Proudly airheaded, incoherent, endlessly pandering - yet fitfully entertaining. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
So relentlessly giddy and hyperactive that it doesn’t really need a movie review--it needs a prescription. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
A sequel whose sugar-rush absurdity almost defeats the forces of logic, taste and conventional narrative. It is a defect that might undermine a lesser movie but that in this case proves to be as cheerfully, enjoyably humid as the first blast of summer light and heat. Read full review
40
Film ThreatKevin Carr
Tries to be bigger and better than the first "Charlie’s Angels." It achieves the bigger, but the better is sorely lacking. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Can't sustain its manic pitch, or work the McMiracle needed to overcome a script (credited to three writers, though more were no doubt afoot) that's less a story than a sales pitch. Read full review
38
USA TodayMike Clark
There are only so many times you can see a slow-motion kickboxing scene or a figure sail off a skyscraper before you want to spend a nice, cozy evening with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
The shreds have vanished in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, which runs at that speed during its stunts but is utterly out of gas in every other way. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
A less cohesive action-comedy than its predecessor, Full Throttle is instead a freewheeling collection of random action sequences strung together with little or no discernible rhyme or reason. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
That sense of fun is jackhammered into our skulls. The tongue that was so firmly in cheek last time has punctured through muscle and bone. Read full review
30
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Two-hour exercise in chaotic action and coarse, annoyingly coy sexuality. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
What fans of the original movie, "Charlie's Angels," which was fun and good-natured, will make of this sloppy mess is hard to guess. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Something cold and mechanical has seeped into the sequel. The divas push so hard for fun, it kills the spontaneity that fun needs to breathe. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Isn't a full-bodied comedy, and it isn't a bona fide action movie, either. It just makes a facetious spectacle of itself. Read full review
12
PremiereGlenn Kenny
As for me, watching this overripe, ignorant parading of Hollywood privilege an hubris put me in mind of a different song--Neil Young's "Revolution Blues." Specifically the bit about Laurel Canyon being filled with famous stars . . . Read full review
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