Review(s): DVD Miss Congeniality (Limited Deluxe Edition Includes "Miss Congeniality 2" Movie Ticket)
A Great Chick Flick
I'm a guy and I'm not normally a fan of chick flicks. However, I am a fan of this movie. It was pretty funny and a good mixture of some other things that really make it work.
A madman is threating to blow up the Miss USA pageant. The FBI must stop it so they send in an undercover agent Gracie Hart(Bullock) to see if it is an inside job. Gracie is nothing of a beauty pageant contestant and would rather spend time with her boys at the FBI like her boss in this mission Eric.(Bratt) She has to look the part of the contestant so she hires Victor(Caine) to help her. He being the expert that he is in this field has three days to turn the ultimate slob tomboy into a beauty queen. Despite all of that Gracie must figure out who is the inside man and save the pageant.
The movie works pretty well one of the main reasons is the great cast.
Sandra Bullock is terrific in the film. It's amazing what makeup can do to a woman. She is so believable and unattractive as the tomboy. When she comes out though decked out and they have Tom Jones "She's A Lady" playing you really have a big draw dropper. She put a lot of energy into the part and she also produced it. She believed in the project and it was a big success because of her.
Michael Caine was awesome in the film. His character in the movie is a homosexual and Caine takes the part and runs with it. He is believable as the pageant expert. Caine is such a great actor because he can play with emotions. He goes from serious to flamboyant all the time in this movie and its fun. It's a fun character for him and he's fantastic in the film.
Guys you will want to watch the movie for the girls. There are a ton of beautiful woman in it. Almost all of the actresses who play the contestants are gorgeous woman. Bullock looks great in the film and there are plenty of things that you will find funny.
Guys go get your girl and watch this film. Heck, everybody go get this film because it's an awesome movie. I was quite impressed with it and im not ashamed to say I own it. It's a great film that can be enjoyed by all.
Women Will Enjoy This Romance Vehicle Once
This is an amusing trifle which my friend Joyce and I took in at the Cinemark theater matinee right before it went to video/DVD. We enjoyed ourselves, had some good laughs but seeing it once was more than enough. This is based on an FBI agent's (Bullock's) having to go undercover in a Miss America-like pageant as a contestant to prevent a terrorist event. It pokes gentle fun at beauty pageants in general and promotes a romance between star FBI agents Sandra Bullock and Benjamin Bratt. There are some over the top performances by Candace Bergen, William Shatner and Michael Caine, all involved with the pageant from business stand points. I can't say any of those three distinguished him/herself here but they were ok. There seems to a recent deluge of these beauty pageant movies. "Beautiful" with Minnie Driver is another and she portrays the self absorbed aspect of such a contestant pretty well. However, the movie gets very sidetracked with the issue of whether she is the real mother of her niece or not. Another is "Drop Dead Gorgeous" which takes the broadest satiric swipe at beauty pageants, involving a talent demonstration that is probably worse even than actually ever seen in a pageant (which is saying a lot). My favorite beauty pageant movie is"Smile" from the 1970s with Bruce Dern in the lead as a mover and shaker in the pageant world. It contains all the cynicism and realism missing from these other versions. "Miss Congeniality" probably is the best romance vehicle of all of them and if you are looking for a pleasant romantic comedy with an attractive leading man (Bratt), this will do nicely. However, I would really love to see an entirely different movie than has yet been made about beauty pageants. I would love to see a first rate writer-director, such as Oliver Stone, take on beauty pageants and show us the true underside of them as he did with football in "Any Given Sunday." Until then, the above movies are what we've got instead. Naive fool that I was, I never imagined that beauty pageants would still be with us in the year 2001, much less that the USA would have seen a real-world child beauty pageant murder, the Ramsey one.
Miss Congeniality
Miss Congeniality DVD ~ Sandra Bullock is not the next idea for the noble peace prize. Then why bother with to much pretense. The movie is fun, francy free and void of social commentery which is nice.
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