Line #104 Film/CharliesAngels2000


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4	->''"Once upon a time, there were three very different little girls who grew up to be three very different women. But they have three things in common: They're brilliant, they're beautiful, and they work for me. My name is Charlie."''
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6	Once upon a time there was a [[Series/CharliesAngels very successful TV series]] about three female private detectives. They worked for a mysterious man called Charlie who was never seen, and who called them his "Angels". Almost 20 years after the last episode aired, the franchise was revived as a pair of [[TheMovie theatrical films]], set in [[TurnOfTheMillennium the early 2000's]], with a new set of Angels.
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8	It is worth noting that the movie series is '''not''' a ContinuityReboot of the series, but a continuation. These movies star Creator/CameronDiaz (Natalie), Creator/LucyLiu (Alex) and Creator/DrewBarrymore (Dylan) as the Angels, with John Forsythe returning as the voice of Charlie.
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10	It received a sequel starring the same Angels in 2003, called ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle''. Tropes for that film can go there.
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12	A [[Film/CharliesAngels2019 continuation of the story]] premiered on November 15, 2019, starring Creator/NaomiScott, Creator/KristenStewart, and Creator/EllaBalinska as the titular trio, with Creator/ElizabethBanks directing, producing and playing Bosley. Tropes for that film can go there.
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15	!!''Charlie's Angels'' contains examples of:
16	* ActionDressRip: A variation occurs where Dylan and Alex strip off the bottom half of their ballgowns to reveal more action-friendly [[HellBentForLeather leather pants]].
17	* ActionGirl: Well, obviously. All the three Angels are capable hand-to-hand combatants, who [[DoesNotLikeGuns refuse to use guns]].
18	* ActorAllusion:
19	** The house in which the two kids are playing a videogame when a naked Dylan comes knocking is the same house from ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.
20	** Dylan can also be seen wearing a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' themed disguise at the start of the first film. Drew Barrymore is a massive fan of the series and nearly had a cameo in the first ''Potter'' film.
21	** Creator/BillMurray mentions talking to a squirrel, a reference to his talking to a gopher in ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}''.
22	* AdaptationalDiversity: The original series had all the Angels be white women. Here, one of them is the Asian-American Alex.
23	* TheAdjectivalMan: The Creepy Thin Man.
24	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:While there's still some satisfaction in his death, all Eric Knox wanted was to get revenge on his father’s killer and just so happened to believe it was Charlie. It turns out Knox had his facts wrong: his father was murdered by enemy soldiers when it came out that he was a double agent.]]
25	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: It is somewhat of a running gag throughout the movies that Dylan always falls for the bad guy. Example: [[spoiler:Eric Knox (who she sleeps with, although this is before she knows that he's the BigBad)]] and [[spoiler:the Thin Man]] (who was originally going to kiss Alex, according to the filmmakers, but they changed it to Dylan, in keeping with her lust for bad boys). Also, it was revealed that TheDragon of the second film's, BigBad was her ex-boyfriend. The last case is arguably a subversion since she turned him in when she saw him murder someone.
26	* AmazonBrigade: The Angels are a PowerTrio of female agents.
27	* ArtisticLicenseOrnithology: Natalie pinpoints the BigBad's fortress by listening to a bird call over her connection to Bosley, being held captive there. She pinpoints the bird as a pygmy nuthatch, which she says is only found in Carmel, California. Two problems: 1) The bird depicted was not a pygmy nuthatch, and 2) even if it were, the nuthatch's range goes from Mexico all the way into British Columbia.
28	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The angels fire an arrow with a rope attached to it into a helicopter, then climb the rope up to the helicopter. The thin aluminum skin of a helicopter is not going to support the weight of three women climbing up a rope in mid-air. As soon as the rope went taut with their weight, the arrow would have ripped free.
29	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: There's a scene where the angels speak Finnish to each other. They discuss what a bad idea it would be to sleep with a client, but this is not what it says in the subtitles. Things get increasingly weird if you watch the movie with Finnish subtitles, which also don't match what's said.
30	* AssassinOutclassin: Vivian sends a goon to strangle Natalie to death in the bathroom. She manages to evade him with martial arts.
31	* AssKickingPose: The girls assume flashy fighting poses before and ''during'' fight scenes.
32	* AutobotsRockOut: While most of the soundtrack counts, the greatest example is Dylan beating up mooks, [[WithMyHandsTied hands tied]], as [[Music/{{Blur}} "Song 2"]] plays.
33	* AwesomeButImpractical: Sure, the security surrounding the server room (or the mainframe as they call it) is flawless, only really resourceful spies managed to break through it. And yet it's so ridiculously impractical that it'd be literally impossible to maintain. The two-step biometric barrier isn't enough, there has to be pressure sensitivity that sounds the alarm after less than a second. Literally every time something went wrong with the servers that whole security system would have to be brought down for anything to be done.
34	* BadassInANiceSuit: The Thin Man is a deadly ProfessionalKiller who is always wearing a suit.
35	* BathroomBrawl: Natalie is attacked by a thug in the bathroom and is almost choked with a chain, but she gains the upper hand and kicks the guy into a mirror.
36	* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Dylan, Natalie, and Alex.
37	* BedsheetLadder: {{Subverted\|Trope}}, Bosley tries to do one, but the Thin Man happened to be stationed below the window. Not that it mattered - the gap in the bars was too small to escape through anyway and his cell was far too high up.
38	* BenchBreaker: Dylan breaks her chair with a flip, although [[WithMyHandsTied her hands stay tied]] after the chair is broken. Not that it stops her from beating up some {{Mooks}}.
39	* BigBad: [[spoiler:Eric Knox]].
40	* BigNo: [[spoiler:Knox gives two, one when he watches his missile being redirected back at his helicopter and one once he [[OhCrap realizes the flight controls no longer work]]]].
41	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Although they like to make things different with wigs.
42	* BlownAcrossTheRoom: Complicatedly {{subverted\|Trope}}. [[spoiler:When Eric Knox is revealed as the BigBad after sleeping with Dylan, he shoots her, propelling her through [[SoftGlass a massive window]]. But later, we flashback to that gunshot and see that the shot missed, flying right by Dylan's ear. Dylan actually ''mimics'' this trope, propelling herself backwards as if she'd been shot, allowing herself to head backwards through the glass window - which had been shattered by the unblocked bullet. Two tropes subverted for the price of one.]]
43	* BookEnds: 'Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel' plays at the start and end.
44	* BrigBallBouncing: Bosley does this while being held prisoner by [[spoiler: Knox]]. Where he got the baseball and glove is [[RuleOfFunny never explained]]. When he fails to catch one throw the ball hits him in the face and activates his molar mic, allowing him to contact the Angels and guide them to him.
45	* BulletTime: It came out the year after ''The Matrix'', and the director used to do music videos with lots of AdrenalineTime, so there's a lot of it.
46	* TheCameo: Music/LLCoolJ as Mr. Jones.
47	* CarSkiing: The movie shows a {{flashback}} in which Natalie pulls one off during her driving exam. EstablishingCharacterMoment for her BadassDriver and ImprobablePilotingSkills.
48	* CassandraTruth: When a number of Knox's goons attempt to take out Dylan, who is tied to a chair, Dylan describes to them, step-by-step, how she's going to [[BenchBreaker break free]], knock each and every one of them out, and finish by [[MoonwalkDance moonwalking out of the room]] - all WithMyHandsTied because she is failing to burn the ropes. Guess what follows?
49	* CastingGag: Jason (played by Creator/MattLeBlanc) is an actor and a bit of a TheDitz, like Joey in ''Series/{{Friends}}''.
50	* CeilingCling: Alex clings to the ceiling of Jason's trailer to protect herself from getting shot by Vivian's thugs.
51	* CelebrityParadox: When Dylan shows up naked at the kids' house, there's a poster for ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' on the wall. We don't find out if the kids think that she's Gertie all grown up.
52	* CerebusRetcon: Natalie jokes that [[spoiler: Vivian Wood was responsible for Knox's kidnapping and was playing the WoundedGazelleGambit]]. [[EvilAllAlong Guess what happens...]]
53	* ChainPain: Alex uses a chain to fight against The Creepy Thin Man. Dylan later uses a a chain as a lasso to tie up both him and [[spoiler:Vivian]].
54	* ChairReveal: Vivian dramatically turns in her chair when revealing herself to Dylan in Knox's apartment.
55	* ChildrenAreInnocent: Dylan is shown rolling down a hill naked behind a house. Two young boys see her. How do they respond? They give her clothes, including a Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin T-shirt, a motorized bicycle for transportation.
56	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The three angels - Alex is often in black, Dylan in red and Natalie in White. Goes with them being a BlondeBrunetteRedhead trio.
57	* CombatStilettos: Mandatory equipment for any ActionGirl or DarkActionGirl in these flicks.
58	* CompensatingForSomething: Corwin says some people accused him of compensating for a weak libido when he entered the racing business and he fired them for it. The people he tells about it laugh until he explains it wasn't a joke.
59	* ConservationOfNinjitsu: The Thin Man is hit with this in the first film. In his first appearance he manages to hold his own against all three of the Angels at once, but in the climax Alex takes him on alone and wins.
60	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Upon receiveing an "over my dead body" response to a business proposition, Corwin decides he can accept these terms.
61	* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: [[spoiler: When first being briefed about Knox's kidnapping, on hearing about Vivian Wood, Natalie immediately says "she did it", before Vivian is then introduced as the client. It turns out Natalie was completely spot on]].
62	* DancePartyEnding: The credits play to both this and funny clips of previously in the movie.
63	* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:Vivian Wood is more than capable of going one on one against an Angel]].
64	* DisguisedInDrag: While infiltrating Redstar, Alex poses as an inspector, while Natalie and Dylan don suits and fake beards to disguise as men.
65	* DistressedDude: Bosley ends up kidnapped by the villains, with the Angels having to go rescue him.
66	%%* TheDitz: Natalie has her moments.
67	* DoesntLikeGuns: The Angels never use firearms. This was on Creator/DrewBarrymore's insistence because she was uncomfortable around firearms. Consequently, their iconic AngelsPose has them switch from holding guns to holding up their hands in martial arts stances.
68	* DontAsk: When the Angels regroup at the office, Dylan arrives on a scooter wearing clothes that are obiously too small for her. Natalie and Alex look confused, Dylan responds with "Don't ask".
69	* DoubleEntendre:
70	** Natalie produces many of these ([[InnocentInnuendo although she seems to use them unintentionally]]).
71	** This exchange between Alex and Corwin (who thinks she's a masseuse):
72	--->'''Corwin:''' You're very good... with your ''hands''. I could use someone like you on my staff.\
73	'''Alex:''' Thanks for the offer, but my hands aren't going anywhere near your staff.
74	* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Vivian Wood is Eric Knox loyal right-hand woman]]. Indeed this was originally going to be literal, since she was written to be Asian, making her a DragonLady.
75	* EatingTheEyeCandy: [[HeadTurningBeauty Alex Munday]] causes this effect on men when she's walking in a room full of computer nerds while wearing a [[HellBentForLeather sexy leather power suit]] (that squeaks every time she walks).
76	* EdibleAmmunition: Alex's blueberry muffins ''are'' weapon-grade. They smash holes into wooden doors when thrown.
77	-->'''Bosley:''' What do you call this?\
78	'''Dylan:''' Chinese fighting muffin!\
79	'''Bosley:''' That's not funny. A friend of mine took a fighting muffin in the chest; they sent him home in four Ziploc bags.
80	* EndangeredSouffle: Alex tries to maintain a souffle while bad guys riddle her trailer with bullets. She fails.
81	* EnhanceButton: They enhance the image of a normal CCTV tape taken in a normal parking garage at night, and spot their target through the reflection in the door of a nearby car.
82	* EstablishingCharacterMusic: The Angels are shown in flashback to a different song - Natalie to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Music/{{Wham}}, Alex to Music/TheFlyingLizards cover of "Money (That's What I Want)" and Dylan to "I Love Rock and Roll" by Music/JoanJett.
83	* FauxFluency: The angels speak in a "secret language" that is actually badly mangled Finnish. They had to subtitle the dialogue even in the Finnish edit of the film.
84	* FemaleFighterMaleHandler: Charlie Townsend has his own special ops group consisting of three women (who he calls "angels") and one man, Bosley, that he intended as their handler.
85	* {{Fetish}}: The Thin Man has a rather enthusiastic (and creepy) one for hair.
86	* FlungClothing: This trope is rather deliberate. Two of the girls change from beaded cocktail dresses to black leather kick-ass clothes as they chase Creepy Thin Man.
87	* GameShowAppearance: Natalie is a five-day ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' champion.
88	* GirlsWithMoustaches: Natalie and Dylan use this as a disguise when they break into a corporate headquarters. {{Justified\|Trope}} - the [[spoiler: technicians to the server room they impersonated while breaking in were men]] and it helped hide the fact they were going full {{Bifauxnen}}.
89	* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: The Thin Man and the BigBad are show smoking several times, while the only time a good guy is smoking is Dylan in a {{flashback}} of her rebellious years.
90	* GPSEvidence: Natalie is able to tell where the bad guys are by a bird's chirp in the background of a recording.
91	* GrapplingHookPistol: Alex uses a grappling hook bow repeatedly throughout the movie, most notably at the end when she hooks it into the fuselage of an airborne helicopter with enough force that it can hold all three of the girls.
92	-->'''Alex:''' Let's see if I can win the ''teddyyyy beaarrrrrrr!!!!''
93	* HairFlip: Used very often and very intentionally, to the point of parody.
94	** Natalie does this in order to attract the attention of her LoveInterest. It's even underscored by a gong going off in the background and a dramatic zoom on his reaction.
95	--->'''Alex''': Flip your ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis God. Damn. Hair.]]''
96	** Alex does this in every single close-up.
97	* HandOrObjectUnderwear: After Dylan ends up falling naked in someone's backyard pool, she grabs a donut-shaped floater to cover herself before seeking help.
98	* HateSink: Vivian Wood is Eric Knox's girlfriend and helps assist him in his plans to kill Charles "Charlie" Townsend to avenge his father. Though loyal to him, she comes off as way more smug and unlikable, displaying a taunting demeanor as she goes along. Angel Dylan Sanders ends up captured because of Vivian and she destroys Angel Natalie Cook's phone during a fight too for no real good reason.
99	* HaveAGayOldTime: Nowadays, after a MemeticMutation, "The Chad" stands for a guy who is ''nothing'' like Dylan's eponymous LoveInterest.
100	* HeroicSeductress: All the Angels invoke DistractedByTheSexy to gather evidence.
101	* HilariousOuttakes: The credits to the film.
102	* HollywoodSkydiving: The opening action scene of the film.
103	%%* {{ILLKILLYOU}}
104	* IdiotBall: The helicopter pilot doesn't notice that roughly 350 pounds of weight is swinging beneath his helicopter as the angels climb the rope up to it. In RealLife, there's no way he could have ''not'' noticed.
105	* IHaveBrothers: The reason Natalie is so tough is because she has five older brothers who are in law enforcement/special forces/the FBI/etc.
106	* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: Dylan orders three burgers, three fries, three shakes, and three apple pies. She jokingly turns to the others and asks them what'll they have.
107	* KindaBusyHere: Natalie casually talks with her boyfriend Pete while rescuing Bosley in the bad guy's hideout. She assures him that he didn't call at a bad time, when he comments she seems distracted.
108	* TheKlutz: Bosley is still prone to acts of clumsiness, usually used for comedy.
109	** When trying to light his fireplace he ends up causing a minor explosion (for seemingly ''no reason'') and hurts himself.
110	** He accidentally deactivates his mouth microphone while eating sushi and then accidentally reactivates it days later by hitting himself in the face with a softball, having apparently forgotten to even remove it.
111	* LatexPerfection: Spoofed at the beginning of the film, which was nearly a direct spoof of the beginning of ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'', combined with BlackLikeMe and SweetPollyOliver.
112	-->'''Would-Be Bomber:''' You crazy bastard!\
113	'''Music/LLCoolJ:''' ''[With Dylan's voice coming out of his mouth]'' I think you mean 'crazy ''bitch'''. ''[Takes off mask to reveal Dylan]''
114	* LeanAndMean: The Thin Man, one of the goons of the BigBad, can stand toe-to-toe with all three angels and yet can also somersault through the bars of a fence. Ironically, the typically rail-thin actor Crispin Glover put on some muscle for the role, making his thinness a bit of an InformedAttribute.
115	* LethalChef: Alex. Her blueberry muffins are so rock hard that one of them ends up embedded in a ''door''.
116	* ALadyOnEachArm: Invoked to crash a private party; two of the Angels get in by being with Bosley, and he gets in due to this trope (and becomes worthy of the host's attention besides).
117	* MaleGaze: The movies never shy away from booty focus. So much that the cast actually spoofed it in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3HAYuNbdaM this]] video.
118	* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: Averted. Pete and Jason still stay with Natalie and Alex respectively in spite of them having to constantly disappear on missions. By the time of the second film, both Pete and Jason are fully aware of their girlfriends' real jobs.
119	* MisplacedWildlife: The Pygmy Nuthatch is a South American Tropical, a relation to the oriole -- a much bigger and different coloured bird. Pygmy Nuthatches are not found in one small spot like Natalie declares either. And the call heard in the movie matches neither bird.
120	* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: Where a cartwheel is done across a pressure-sensitive floor and then handstand on a computer box.
121	* ModestyBedsheet: Dylan ends up wearing it twice, both times after she had sex (first with The Chad, then with Knox).
122	* MysteriousEmployer: Charlie is the unseen employer of the Angels. Their only interaction with him is via Jimmy Bosley or via a speaker.
123	* MythologyGag: During the montage of the Angels' various assignments, we see them wearing prison uniforms and chained together. This was a nod to one of the most famous episodes of the original show, "Angels in Heat".
124	* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Dylan is throw out a window dressed only in a ModestyBedsheet [[spoiler:after getting shot by Knox]]. The sheet is caught on the window and she hangs by it as it slowly unravels and slows down her fall, but she still ends [[NakedPeopleAreFunny rolling naked down a hill into a family's backyard]]. She then [[HandOrObjectUnderwear picks up an inflatable, donut-shaped pool floater to cover herself]] and knocks on the glass door to ask the family for help. When she meets back up with Natalie and Alex she's wearing a goofy Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin T-shirt.
125	-->''[after Dylan arrives in a small motorcycle and clothes obviously too small for her]''\
126	'''Dylan:''' ''[to Natalie and Alex]'' DontAsk.
127	* NavelDeepNeckline: Dylan's racer outfit has a v-shaped neckline that plunges to her stomach.
128	* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight: This team of Angels never uses guns. They rely on WaifFu against a number of enemies with guns, and rarely suffer more than a nick.
129	* NippleAndDimed: Averted. Dylan's bare breast is fully visible (if out of focus) for a second when she loses her ModestyBedsheet.
130	* NoNameGiven: The Thin Man is only ever referred to as this (either that or "Creepy Thin Man") for the first movie - the second movie, however, reveals that his real name is [[spoiler:Anthony (his surname is not given, however)]].
131	* NotSoDire: Alex and her boyfriend Jason look like they are trying to solve a WireDilemma, but they're just practicing lines for his movie.
132	%%* ObstacleExposition
133	* ObviousVillainSecretVillain: The appropriately named Creepy Thin Man is the obvious villain, having two encounters with the Angels and supposedly serving as an enforcer to whomever ordered Eric Knox abducted for his new software. At first the Angels, and by proxy the audience, is led to believe that the BigBad is Redstar CEO Roger Corwin. However, Corwin is revealed to be a RedHerring: the secret villain is [[spoiler:Knox himself who faked his own abduction as part of a plan to find and murder the Angels' boss Charlie]].
134	* OnASoundstageAllAlong: {{Parodied\|Trope}}. "[[NoIndoorVoice DAMN YOU]], [[SayMyName SALAZAAAAAAAR]]!!"
135	* TheOner:
136	** The movie opens with one (which is actually three shots connected by hidden cuts) that goes from the Columbia logo, through the plane twice and up to the disguised Dylan pulling the bomber out of the plane.
137	** A second oner, this time done for real, occurs during TheReveal. The scene begins with Dylan leaving Knox's bedroom and continues with no cuts until [[spoiler:Knox reveals he's going after Charlie]].
138	* PacManFever: Dylan stumbles upon two kids playing ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' with two 3rd party Platform/PlayStation controllers and button-mashing unrealistically while [[ArcadeSounds out-of-place sound-effects play]] -- though the sound effects are not particularly old-sounding and not from ''Pac-Man''. The really bad part is that ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' is not only a game for which ButtonMashing is counterproductive (unless you're charging up your GF summons), but that it's NOT a two-player game, but a single-player {{JRPG}}. Interestingly enough, had the movie been made a year later and the boys playing ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', that game did have a two player function.
139	* PlotBasedPhotographObfuscation: Eric Knox shows Dylan a photo of his father with another man whose face is hidden by something passing between him and the camera. Later, in a {{Flashback}}, her mind zooms in on the other man's name tag: Townsend -- as in, "Charlie" -- and realizes the true significance of the photo.
140	* ThePollyanna: Natalie. The film's DVD commentary explicitly describes her as such.
141	%%* PreAsskickingOneLiner
142	* PreemptiveDeclaration: Dylan is tied up in a chair by the BigBad's {{Mook}}s who are about to pounce on her. She provides a detailed explanation of how she's going to beat each of them before [[MoonwalkDance moonwalking out of the room]]. She proceeds to do exactly that (except for the moonwalk, if you can call it that).
143	* PrecisionFStrike: When Natalie finds out that [[spoiler:Vivian Wood is trying to kill the Angels]], she calls her "an all-around bitch''. While there is plenty of mild swearing throughout the movie, having this particular one come out of [[ThePollyanna Natalie's]] mouth shows just how shocked and angry she is. (The director even admits to wanting to tone it down to "brat".)
144	* ProsceniumReveal: Happens twice with Alex's boyfriend Jason -- once when he is rehearsing a scene from his latest movie with her, and once when he is actually filming it.
145	* ProductPlacement: While it suffers from PacManFever, the film has ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' in one of the scenes.
146	* PsychoForHire: The Thin Man is a creepy ProfessionalKiller that works as the BigBad's main enforcer.
147	* QuietCryForHelp: Dylan tries to code to her assignment Eric that his female cohort Vivian, who just walked in the room, is the BigBad using ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' tiles ("ENEMY"). Unfortunately for her, [[spoiler: Vivian is actually TheDragon to his Big Bad.]]
148	* RebootSnark: In the ColdOpen to this movie (which is based on [[Series/CharliesAngels a TV show]]), a villain is seen on an airplane watching a fictitious ''Series/TJHooker'' movie and complaining, "Not another movie based on an old TV show!"
149	* RevengeMyopia: Eric Knox [[spoiler:AKA John [=McCaddon=] wants revenge on Charlie because he believes that Charlie is the man who killed his father. When in reality, his father was a double agent in Charlie's army intelligence unit and was killed by the other side when he was discovered.]]
150	* RewatchBonus: When Music/LLCoolJ comes out of the bathroom, he's adjusting his face, hinting that he's actually Dylan in a facemask.
151	* RuleOfCool: Generally the tone of both films, along with RuleOfFunny.
152	* RuleOfFunny: The only reason Bosley is able to make a gun out of soap.
153	* ScoobyStack: At the end of the movie the Angels arrive at Charlie's beach house and do this through the front door.
154	* SelfDeprecation: The opening scene has the in-flight movie "''Series/TJHooker'': [[TheFilmOfTheSeries The Movie]]". The reaction is "Another movie from an old TV show."
155	* SexGoddess: Dylan is described by [[spoiler:Knox]] as a "real tomcat" in bed.
156	* SexySurfacingShot: When the Angels swim to the BigBad's hideout by sea, there's a lingering shot of them in their wetsuits as they exit from the water in their skintight wetsuits.
157	* SheFu: The film features copious over-the-top She-Fu. Enforced, since Creator/DrewBarrymore insisted that they couldn't use guns.
158	* ShortLivedAerialEscape: The BigBad is taken out when the missile he fired at Charlie's house is reprogrammed to take out the chopper than launched it.
159	* ShoutOut:
160	** The scene where Bosley is kept prisoner in the tower contains references to ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' and ''Film/BirdmanOfAlcatraz''. The "soap gun" is also a reference to John Dillinger's famous escape.
161	** When Dylan falls into the garden of the house where two kids are playing games, it is actually the same house from ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', which starred a very young Drew Barrymore. Not only that, but an ''E.T.'' poster can also be found in this scene.
162	* ShowSomeLeg: Dylan wears a patriotic (red, white and blue) styled auto racing firesuit/jumpsuit that showcases her bountiful cleavage. She, in the process, proceeds to distract a chauffeur by flirting with him while Alex plants a camera into the trunk his car.
163	* SilentAntagonist: The Thin Man. He originally had lines in the script, but they decided he'd be more villainous if he was TheVoiceless.
164	* SkewedPriorities: Natalie tries to have a phone conversation with Pete while she's supposed to be breaking Bosley out of his cell. Although arguably subverted when she takes exception to [[spoiler: Vivian]] smashing the phone with "do you know how hard it is to meet a good guy in Los Angeles?" Going off her "sounds like fun" comment earlier, rescuing Bosley is easy; finding a good man is hard.
165	* SkywardScream: {{Parodied\|Trope}} with Jason howling "DAMN YOU, SALAZAAAR!" at the soaring camera while his girlfriend lies dead in his arms. And then we find out they're shooting [[ShowWithinAShow a movie within the movie]].
166	* SlippingAMickey: [[spoiler:Vivian]] drugs Bosley's drink to kidnap him.
167	* SmokingIsCool: Thin Man from smokes his cigarettes with almost poignant refinement.
168	* SoftGlass:
169	** Despite presumably having been hurled through a glass transom by Natalie and Alex (so she can unblock the door from the other side), Dylan not only manages to break the glass with her body, but is completely uninjured.
170	** When [[spoiler:Knox shoots at Dylan and she's thrown back through the shattering glass window (the bullet only hit the window behind her), she egregiously has no scratch on her despite being completely nude at the time]].
171	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Dylan's LoveInterest is called The Chad.
172	* SpyCatsuit: Natalie wears an impressive shiny silver catsuit while climbing and jumping off a skyscraper.
173	* SteelEarDrums: Played straight, the Angels stand in front of huge explosions and get back up without hearing problems.
174	* StrippingSnag: This actually manages to save Dylan's life when she's throw out the window in just a ModestyBedsheet. The villains assume she fell to her death, but the sheet got caught in one of the window shards, leaving her [[LiteralCliffhanger hanging outside his window]]. When the sheet does get ripped off, it's still close enough to the ground for the fall to not be fatal.
175	* SuperDetailedFightNarration: Dylan is captured by Knox and tied to a chair. She manages to free her legs and then spends the next few seconds describing in detail how she's going to kick the {{Mook}}s' asses before "moonwalking out of there". The fight goes exactly as she described, except for the last part, because what she does can in no way be described as a moonwalk (doesn't matter if a Music/MichaelJackson song is playing in the background).
176	* SurpriseVehicle: Knox's helicopter rising up over his castle in the finale, ready to blow up the Angels, who barely escape the incoming missile.
177	* SweetPollyOliver: The opening scene involves Dylan disguised as an [[BlackLikeMe African-American]] male via LatexPerfection, with [[CastAsAMask the mask portrayed by]] Music/LLCoolJ.
178	* SwordCane: The Thin Man's weapon of choice.
179	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Dylan likes rock music, bad boys, has a bit of a temper, and is generally a lot less girly than sophisticated Alex and GenkiGirl Natalie. But she does wear skirts and dresses, including flowery ones.
180	* TheVoice: Charlie is only ever heard.
181	* ToplessnessFromTheBack: The Angels make their way to [[spoiler: Eric Knox's]] hideout by sea and take off their wetsuits when approaching, the camera cutting away to their bare backs as they strip.
182	* TownGirls: Dylan is a reckless FieryRedhead who likes rock music (butch), Natalie is a blonde, ditzy GenkiGirl (femme), and Alex is a sophisticated GoGetterGirl (neither).
183	* TropicalEpilogue: The film ends with the Angels and Bosley enjoying a beach vacation that Charlie had rewarded them for completing their mission.
184	* TwoKeyedLock: Redstar's main computer is behind a locked door that can only be opened by using two director's cards, fingerprints, and retinas. Then there's another door with two buttons.
185	* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Knox tricks the Angels into giving him access to Corwin's [=GPS=] satellites]].
186	* VanityLicensePlate: Corwin's reads [=CORWIN=] with the "win" part underlined.
187	* WaifFu: The Angels use martial arts to defeat whole roomfuls of enemies.
188	* WeakBossStrongUnderlings: Compared to the [[Series/CharliesAngels original series]], this trope gets taken to the next level. The Angels now perform more dangerous (and [[RuleOfCool cool]]) stunts while in combat, meaning that they are at Olympic athlete level in terms of physical prowess instead of the reasonably athletic they are in the original. Also, the films have them efficiently use guns of greater caliber and bladed weapons as well as more acrobatic martial arts. Their boss Charlie, by contrast, is still the old RetiredBadass he's always been.
189	* WhamLine: Happens after Dylan tries to covertly warn [[spoiler:Knox]] about the enemy in the room. [[spoiler:He kisses Dylan and whispers "I know", revealing that he's working with Vivian and has been the whole time.]]
190	* WhipOfDominance: In order to get access to a security room in the Red Star firm, the Angels infiltrate the building while Alex [[JanitorImpersonationInfiltration pretends to be an efficiency expert there to train the software engineers]]. But for an [[HoneyTrap extra distraction]] (and for {{Fanservice}}) Alex plays a {{Dominatrix}} type of instructor, complete with a domineering attitude, a [[DressedLikeADominatrix skintight black ensemble]] and a large riding crop that she constantly whips around to make a point, complete with a loud whipcrack sound effect whenever she does. Naturally, all of the [[NerdsArePervs horny tech nerds]] get [[DistractedByTheSexy completely enraptured by her]] and she causes enough of a commotion that Natalie and Dylan can sneak around undetected.
191	* WireDilemma: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when Alex is introduced helping her actor boyfriend rehearse a scene where his character has to defuse a bomb. Jason wonders why his character wouldn't just rip all the wires out and Alex replies that it's probably a dummy mechanism that will trigger an immediate explosion if removed.
192	* WithMyHandsTied: Dylan knocks out five bad guys (after [[PreemptiveDeclaration describing in detail what she would do]]) while tied to [[BenchBreaker a broken chair]]. Not that she wanted to, but her lighter failed to break her ropes while she was talking them up.
193	-->'''Dylan:''' And since my trusty lighter isn't working I'm gonna do all of this with my hands tied behind my back.
194	* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Eric Knox]] wants to kill [[spoiler:Charlie]], as he (mistakenly) believes him to have killed his father.

Context Film / CharliesAngels2000