Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 27, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
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Mixed or average reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
18
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
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
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