Francais | English | Espanõl

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charlie's Angels
The Angels (l–r): Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, and Drew Barrymore Image:5 stars.svgImage:0.5 stars.svg 5.7/10 IMDB (30,390 votes)
Directed by	McG
Produced by	Drew Barrymore Leonard Goldberg Nancy Juvonen Executive producers: Joseph M. Caracciolo Aaron Spelling Betty Thomas Jenno Topping Associate producer: Amanda Goldberg
Written by	Ryan Rowe Ed Solomon John August
Starring	Cameron Diaz Drew Barrymore Lucy Liu Bill Murray Sam Rockwell Crispin Glover Tom Green
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	November 3, 2000
Language	English
Followed by	Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
IMDb profile

Charlie's Angels (2000) is an action/comedy film based on (and being something of a sequel to) the 1970s television series Charlie's Angels.

The film was directed by McG, and starred Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu (as the three "angels"), Bill Murray (as Bosley), and Sam Rockwell. John Forsythe, from the original series, returned as Charlie. Charlie's Angels was followed by a sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), with Bernie Mac (as Bosley) and Demi Moore.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Quotes 3 Trivia 4 External links

[edit] Plot

The angels (Diaz as Natalie Cook, Barrymore as Dylan Sanders, and Liu as Alex Munday) have been hired by a Bill Gates-type software genius to hack into a rival's computer system, ostensibly to locate stolen software.

It is revealed, however, that their client is in fact the enemy and is using the angels to gain access to his rival's system. It turns out his father was a Green Beret who served with none other than the angels' boss Charles Townsend, and he blames his father's death on Charlie. He plans to use a combination of his and his rival's technology to trace Charlie's location via satellite and then kill him. Naturally, the angels thwart this plan.

[edit] Quotes

• Charlie: Good morning, angels.

Dylan, Natalie, Alex: Good morning, Charlie!

• [one of Alex's muffins is embedded in the door]

Bosley: What do you call this?

Dylan: Chinese fighting muffin.

Bosley: That's not funny. A friend of mine took a fighting muffin in the chest; they sent him home in four Ziploc bags.

• Chad: Starfish, I would just like to say that I'm honored, honored to see you taking an interest in my work and I also think you're very pretty and... (sees girls getting scuba gear on) Starfish? Where are you going? Starfish are you going swimming? Where are you going? Where are you going again Starfish? Was it the Chad?
• Dylan: No the Chad was great.
• Chad: The Chad was great.

• Chad: Is it the eggs?

Dylan: It's not the eggs.

Chad: Is it the boat?

Dylan: No, it's not the boat, I have to go though.

Chad: Is it the Chad?

Dylan: It might be the Chad.

Chad: The Chad... It's the Chad!

[Chad falls into the water]

• Eric Knox: So where we going, House of Pancakes or The Sizzler?

Vivian Wood: What are you, the cheapest man on the planet?

• Chad: The Chad... is stuck.

• Roger Corwin: You're very good. With your hands. I could use someone like you on my staff.

Alex: Thanks for the offer but my hands aren't going anywhere near your staff.

• Vivian Wood: Never send a man to do a woman's job.

• Charlie: Once upon a time there were three very different little girls who grew up to be three very different women with three things in common: they're brilliant, they're beautiful, and they work for me. My name is Charlie.

• Alex: Jason, I haven't been honest with you; I'm not a bikini waxer!

• Alex: Oh, my God, you're hit!

Jason Gibbons: No, it's nothing. I mean the squibs hurt a little when they go off but... what happened to my trailer?

Alex: Jason

Jason Gibbons: Were you in there while that happened? Look at it!

Alex: Jason, I have been entirely honest with you. I'm not a bikini waxer.

Jason Gibbons: Bummer. I mean... that was kind of a turn on.

• Alex: All right, let's get one thing straight between us.

Jason Gibbons: Go ahead. We're way past keeping secrets at this point.

Alex: This is gonna be long, hard and rough.

Jason Gibbons: Sometimes when it's rough I just get there faster.

Alex: If you don't diffuse this bomb, Logan, LA is gonna become a new underwater attraction.

Jason Gibbons: Which wire? The red one or the blue one?

Alex: Bump bump baah.

Jason Gibbons: That is not helping.

Alex: Ooh, my muffins.

Jason Gibbons: This is stupid. Why wouldn't I just yank the wire.

Alex: No honey, the real mechanism is inside encased in a titanium shell, if you trip the external feedback circuit the bomb will detonate.

Jason Gibbons: Wow! You know for a bikini waxer you know an awful lot about bombs.

Alex: Isn't it amazing how much you can learn off of the internet?

• Natalie: Where's Knox? Is he OK?

Dylan: He's fine. He's the bad guy.

• Bosley: And I had a really long talk with a squirrel one time, longer in fact than I can with most people.

• Eric Knox: I gotta go torture and kill your boss.

• Roger Corwin: He said what? Over my dead body? I can accept those terms.

• Alex: Your methodologies are antiquated and weak. Your procedures of approval ensure that only the least radical ideas are considered. Meanwhile your competition is innovating.

[whip]

Dylan: [quietly] Ow.

Alex: You. What was the last suggestion you made to your boss?

Red Star Systems Techie: I said the coke machine should be free.

Alex: Why?

Red Star Systems Techie: Because caffeine helps us program.

• Jason Gibbons: So when do I get to meet this Charlie.

Alex: Well, Charlie's not a very social person.

Jason Gibbons: But Charlie's a chick right? I mean, she's definitely a woman?

• Bouncer: Hey you! You wanna dance on stage?

Natalie, Pete: Us? Yeah!

Bouncer: No. Stage is for the ladies only.

Natalie: Oh, then you know what? I'm just gonna find a place on the floor.

Pete: [to bouncer] Wait a minute!

[to Natalie]

Pete: Dance on stage? This is like Soul Train's highest honor, I am *not* gonna sit here and let you *not* go up there so yeah, she'll go.

Natalie: Really? Cause I've always wanted to go up there.

Pete: Have a great time!

Natalie: See you in a minute!

• Natalie: I have to go. I can't explain now but will you call me tomorrow?

Pete: Sure.

[Natalie runs off. Runs back, kisses him and runs off again. Pete turns to the bouncers]

Bouncer: Oh, you bad!

Bouncer: Yeah, you bad!

Pete: Finally you guys warm up a little.

• Dylan: And that's kicking your ass!

• Dylan: Figures that I would find the perfect guy, and he would already have the perfect girl.

• Natalie: Do you know how hard it is to find a quality man in Los Angeles?

• Natalie: They don't call me balls out Natalie for nothing.

• Natalie: [to UPS guy] I signed that release waiver, so you can just feel free to stick things in my slot.

• Natalie: Alex! Don't let him get away!

Dylan: It's a round track, Nat, he's not going anywhere!

• [Vivian Wood steals Natalie's cell phone from her while she's talking to her friend Pete]

Vivian Wood: Is this the famous Charlie?

Pete: No, this is Pete.

• Chad: Good morning Starfish.

Dylan: Good morning Chad. Sweet Chad.

• Dylan: Hold that thought.

• Chad: Where are you going, Starfish and Friends?

• [a film version of "T.J. Hooker" (1982) is playing]

Mr. Jones: [sighs] Another movie from an old TV show.

• Natalie: Hey! I like that guy!

• [During Natalie's dream scene]

Natalie: Eduardo, move me.

• [ordering at the drive through]

Dylan: I'll have three burgers, three French fries and three cherry pies. What do you guys want?

• Eric Knox: You're a woman, you've got female intuition, *and* you're a detective... and you didn't know this was going to happen?

• Alex: What do you know, a guy who speaks Natalie.

• Alex: They're not Chinese, they're not fighting, they're blueberry!

• Alex: Flip your hair.

Natalie: What?

Alex: Flip your goddamn hair.

• Pasqual: You crazy bastard!

Dylan: [as Mr. Jones] I think you mean crazy bitch.

• Alex: Let's see if I can win the teddy bear!

• Pete: I'll get tickets.

Natalie: I love tickets!

• [mocking Eric Knox]

Dylan: I don't know how to make chicken... jerk.

• Natalie: Wait you guys, I'm not a yoyo!

• Eric Knox: You know they say in death all life questions will be answered.

[chuckles]

Eric Knox: Will you let me know?

[Knox shoots Dylan out the window]

• Natalie: Oh!

[making bird noise]

Natalie: It's a sitta pygmaya. A pygmy nuthatch! They can only be found in one place. CARMEL!

• [first lines]

Flight Attendant: I said, "Look, lady, it's not the seats that have gotten smaller, it's your ass that has gotten bigger."

• [last lines]

Dylan: To Charlie.

Alex: To Charlie.

Natalie: To Charlie.

Bosley: To Charlie.

[falls over]

Bosley: Let me toast you ladies, with some ice cubes!

[edit] Trivia

• Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu all went through a strenuous training regime to prepare for their roles. They even worked with a kung fu master.

• The film pays homage to the television series keeping a very similar credit sequence where the characters are introduced. With the sequence, scenes from the television series are reenacted with the film's leads.

• Drew Barrymore pursued Bill Murray for months to play Bosley and he consistently declined. During a Saturday Night Live Anniversary Special he sang TLC's Waterfalls to Drew (with the chorus "Don't go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to..."). Eventually he did the film but rumors of his conflicts with Lucy Liu have been cited as the reason he didn't return for the sequel.

• Producer Drew Barrymore dislikes guns which is why the Angels are martial arts experts in the film.

• Drew Barrymore's then husband, Tom Green appears in a cameo as The Chad.

The intercom that Charlie Townsend holds his conferences is the same one from the television series even though that model hasn't been made in decades.

• Charlie Townsend, like the television series is voiced by John Forsythe and never seen.

• Lauryn Hill and Aaliyah were both considered for the role of Alex.

• Most of the songs in the background feature the word 'angel.'

• In a short scene when Drew Barrymore falls from a roof into a house, the two shocked kids are in front of a TV screen that shows gameplay footage from Final Fantasy VIII. This has been viewed as a "goof" as the game is a single player game. However, it is never shown that both children are playing the game - just that they are both holding what appear to be PlayStation Controllers.

• During the party scene in the film, Roger Corwin's (Tim Curry) girlfriend was played by 1998 Playmate of the Year, Karen McDougal.

• The film's soundtrack album was a successful release, and its lead single, "Independent Women Part 1" by Destiny's Child, was a number-one hit in the United States for (11 consecutive weeks) and #1 in the UK.

• In one of the shots for the opening credits, one of the angels (Drew Barrymore) is wearing a black wig and round glasses, reading a book in a library. This is a reference to Harry Potter.

• In the scene where Bosley is locked up in a cell by the villain, there are a lot of references to movies:
  • The Great Escape, where Bosley is bouncing a baseball off of the cell wall;
  • The Birdman of Alcatraz, where there is a bird sitting on the ledge of the windowsill of the cell
  • Tarzan, when Bosley yells the "Tarzan yell" while coming to pick up the girls at the end of the movie in a Jeep.

• The movie grossed more than $125 million at the U.S. box office and grossed over $260 million worldwide.

[edit] External links

• Charlie's Angels at the Internet Movie Database
• MASCOT review: Charlie's Angelsde:3 Engel für Charlie

fr:Charlie et ses drôles de dames nl:Charlie's Angels (film) ja:チャーリーズ・エンジェル (映画) sv:Charlies änglar (film)