ONLY FALLEN ANGELS USE GUNS
Demi Moore returns to the screen. She was the highest paid actress in Hollywood when she dropped out a few years back. Good to see her again. In this story she represents unfair competition (use of gun violence) and a refusal to resort to inner developed resources to win the battle. Anti-gun violence is an important theme in the current revision of Charlie's Angels. 
HEAVENLY ANGELS DON'T USE GUNS
Personal ability and achievement are the human qualities that get the nod. Human creativity, and accomplishment are celebrated. Guns represent a dehumanizing evil, as well as uncheck power. Guns for sport -sure. Guns on people -no! Drew Barrymore was clear that this revision not use guns. Unearned and dehumanizing might is not right. Heavenly Angels use hands and brains on a level playing field.
 
A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD -BREAKING INTO MALE TURF
There is an insistence that life should be conducted on a level playing field. Welding, motocross, wrestling, and surfing are sadly all male dominated. --The Angels participate -and win- in this turf dominated by men --the film makes quite a statement in this regard. There is a sense here that anyone should be able to participate in any and all areas of culture life; that all gender barriers should come down. Equality should be based on our common humanity. Qualification should be centered on just that, and not gender, nor class, nor race. As director McG says, “We all wanted to make this film decidedly more muscular and show that these girls can hang with the guys. We ramped it up to include wrestling, motocross, car crashes and leaps off tall buildings. The Angels hold their own in arenas normally reserved for idealized male action heroes. We wanted to put them in those environments and still have them be beautiful and comfortable in their own skin.”
BLONDE, BRUNET AND BLACK HAIR.
Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu. The Angels represent every woman! The film is a statement about the importance of every person -no matter what her hair color is. It is also a coming together of the various races and types. Midwestern European, Californian Scandinavian, and Asian American pretty much says it all in a fun way. Of course the other two members of the team are the males: Bernie Mac (African-American) with the voice of John Forsythe (WASP senior citizen), so ultimately it is a coming together of all kinds. This is the direction of planet earth -thank God. It's wonderful to see so many barriers come down.
GENDER CHANGE IN HOLLYWOOD
Look at the list of women who produced this film: Barrymore (producer), Patrick Crowley (executive producer), Amanda Goldberg (associate producer), Nancy Juvonen (producer), Stephanie Savage (associate producer), Betty Thomas (executive producer) and Jenno Topping (executive producer). Not to mention screenwriter Marianne Wibberley and the fact that the tree top billers are woman! It was not that long ago that Charlie's Angeles was considered anti-woman: "Woman as mindless sex objects" -you know, that sort of thing. Today, glamour and brains are not considered opposed to each other. Equal rights can be fun, rather than in your face political. A new day has dawned.
 
I'D REALLY RATHER SETTLE DOWN, BUT...
Luke Wilson as Natalie’s boyfriend Pete Komisky. The couple has finally made the commitment to live together. And there’s the suggestion that Pete wants to take the relationship even further. “I think the fact that Natalie, the basic all-American girl, is with a decent, hardworking guy like Pete, tells us a lot about them,” says Wilson. “She might be an Angel with all that entails, but at heart she’s just a normal woman who likes this stable guy.” But, it's that hesitation, I think, that reflects a generations feeling about long term commitment (marriage). And, can you blame it? "We are the generation of the divorced," a Gen Xer so aptly put it!
LOVE AND DEVOTION BETWEEN THE GENERATIONS DESPITE LACK OF UNDERSTANDING
According to John Cleese, the role of Alex's father presented an interesting challenge for him. “It was explained to me that I was playing the part of a woman called ‘Mrs. Munday,’ who was a very high-powered Jewish socialite from New York. But they said the part was going to be rewritten -- which I thought was a frightfully good idea. I thought it was wonderfully eccentric casting to have me be Alex’s father,” Cleese adds. “And there is so much humor in the fact that he doesn’t really have any idea of what she does for a living. And every time she tries to explain it to him, he becomes more befuddled.”
BOTTOM LINE: BEING THERE FOR ONE ANOTHER
Barrymore comments about her character, Dylan, “She’s such a concrete character. I relate to her on so many levels: Her need for stability, for family, her need to go out there and protect the ones she loves and be the best that she can be.” In fact it is the idea of synchronicity that speaks to Barrymore. “We are constantly looking out for one another. It’s rare to find that kind of consistent support and encouragement.” So there it is, both on and off the set, the main message of the film is Being-There-For-Others.

In a clever cameo Jaclyn Smith (an original TV Angel) appears as a heaven-sent angel to assure the current angels that even heaven is there for them. True friendship is a taste of heaven.

The film ends with a vision of heaven and a fiery hell (literally) for those who wish to do evil things to others.