Three years ago, star/producer Drew Barrymore and director McG gave the iconic 1970s TV show Charlie’s Angels just the kind of campy big-screen treatment it deserved. Those two are back in all their ass-kicking, wisecracking glory in the blockbuster sequel, which also finds Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu reprising their roles as Barrymore’s partners in crimefighting. This time out, the girls are hired to retrieve two missing rings that can be used to identify members of the FBI’s witness-protection program. Surgically enhanced comeback queen Demi Moore is their pistol-packing nemesis, a former angel now intent on playing God.

Deadpan Bill Murray’s Bosley has been replaced by full-time ham Bernie Mac as Bosley’s brother, who runs interference between the girls and the mysterious Charlie, and Crispin Glover makes a welcome return as the psychotic Thin Man. As the rock chick with a sensitive streak, Barrymore is forced to face off with her Irish gangster ex-boyfriend (Justin Theroux) in the film’s most engaging subplot. The sisterhood message gets poured on a little too thick in the end, but the girls’ effervescent charm and former music-video phenom McG’s thrilling martial-arts sequences make for another tongue-in-cheek triumph. (105 minutes)