Last summer just as the holidays started I typically caught a really bad cold. I am almost certain I was dying and, no I'm not being melodramatic, and it was then that I first saw Angels bathed in a heavenly glow! To be more precise it was Charlies Angels and the glow was coming from the tv screen, but you get the picture. Their ass kicking antics, snappy musical numbers and Charlies soothing voice all worked together to ease my fevered brain and since then I have been a somewhat unwilling fan! So when Charlies Angels Full Throttle (Directed by McG?)came out in the cinema I had to go see it to discover whether it was the fever that had made me enjoy Charlies Angels or whether I actually have bad taste!

Though all the Angels have returned one quite obvious no-show is Bill Murray as Bosley, who is therefore replaced by Bernie Mac (Oceans 11). Bill Murray and Lucy Liu apparently had a big bust up during the first movie (Handbags at Dawn!)and so he decided that he wasn't going to go full throttle. Although Bernie Mac is a good replacement I think I prefer Bill Murray, which is probably due to my obsession with Ghostbusters as a youngster!

Possible Spoiler

There is a hell of a lot of cameos in this film I already mentioned John Cleese, but the most important is Demi Moore as fallen Angel Madison Lee. She is very convincing as a bitter Angel(something tells me shes had practice!) who becomes a suspect. However I think I spent most of the time when she was on screen trying to decide just how she had spent that 200,000 to get in shape for the role!
Her Ex-husband Bruce Willis also makes a cameo as do those rather lolly-pop proportioned Olsen twins. Jaclyn Smith an Angel from the original series also makes a brief appearance giving advice to Dylan. Its quite nice to see her in the film as I heard the original angels were reluctant to appear in the films unless they had a large part. One cameo which I found a bit pointless was Shia Lebeouf (God! I thought I had a bad last name!) as Max. He is an orphan the angels save who basically disappears for the entire film only to reappear at the end to announce that he will become a Bosley(I assume this means an assistant to the angels!), which suggests there will be a third installment (Dare I dream!)

I have discovered I must have bad taste as I enjoyed this film, though it may not sound like it! If you just accept the fact that it has little to no plot and that it often feels like McG has strung a load of music videos together, you will enjoy it, if not then I think you will leave the cinema feeling that the Angels are the work of the devil and that Charlie is one unlucky fellow!