Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle

After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.

Although more films are promoting the idea of female empowerment, many still depict women in revealing clothing doing things aimed at catching men’s attention. As a female, do you feel empowered or degraded by the portrayals in this film? How realistic is their vast list of accomplishments? What female characters most closely mirror your image of strong and capable women?

Spoofing other forms of media is often used in comedies. What films or television shows did this film spoof? Is there a difference between making a creative satire and simply plagiarizing someone else’s work?