The angels are back, and this time their heels are twice as high, their outfits twice as revealing, and the plot twice as unbelievable. But that is the beauty of the Charlie's Angels, once you get past the obvious unbelievability of the entire thing, you're in for the ride of your life. If you thought the first film was action packed and fast-paced, you really ain't seen nothin' yet!

As Charlie says, "once upon a time there were three very different girls......" Dylan (Drew Barrymore), Natalie (Cameron Diaz) and Alex (Lucy Liu) make up the Charlie's Angels, a trio of crime-fighting private investigators who work for the absent Charlie, a millionnaire who funds the Angels, but whom nobody has ever met. He contacts the girls via Bosley, a kind of generic, stupid male presence, just for the sake of it. In the first film, Bosley was played by Bill Murray. But he's absent in this film (rumour has it he and Lucy Liu didn't get on...) so his even more incompetent brother appears in this film, played by Bernie Mac (who you might remember from Oceans 11). He takes up the 'weirdy stupid comedy man' role that was fulfilled in the first film by Tom Green ("The Chad was great...").

One of the good things about the plot in this film is that even though this is a no-brainer action movie, they haven't just gone for that 'he's the bad buy, now lets spend the whole film chasing him' easy way out. There's more than one string to the story, more than one bad guy, and though it does have more than a slight resemblance to the first (Dylan falls for the baddie, there's a sexy older woman who wants to kill the angels, Alex and Natalie have boyfriend problems...) it's still a nice twisting & turning thread to compliment the numerous disguises, action sequences and funky eyeliner. In the space of an hour and a half, we see the girls as Hot Dog vendors, Bikers, Surfers, Pussycat Dolls Dancers, Murder Scene Investigators, runaways and much more besides. Old strings from the first film are followed up - the boyfriends are back (which is nice for Matt Le Blanc / Luke Wilson fans), we see Natalie save the day once again with her amazing knowledge of bird trivia, and Dylan obsesses over her stars & stripes lighter. And the creepy thin guy is back. Why, exactly, I'm not sure. That was the one piece of the story that wasn't properly explained.