Against all odds, Charlie’s Angels flopped at the box office.

But it did all the right things: It capitalized on an existing franchise, it got soccer star and Glamour “Woman of the Year” Megan Rapinoe to appear in a promo spot, and it embodied the timely and supposedly lucrative aura of female empowerment. It even included two ethnically ambiguous leads and one who is sexually fluid. What went wrong?