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DVD Miss Congeniality (Deluxe Edition)
It's a good thing Sandra Bullock knows her strengths and weaknesses, because without Bullock as star and producer, Miss Congeniality would be an insufferable mess as opposed to being a mildly enjoyable trifle that is custom-made for Bullock's established screen persona. Only Bullock's fans could really appreciate this fluff (even then they'll wish its ripe premise had been more intelligently handled), but it's not without some highlights to accompany Bullock's reliable charms. Here she plays clumsy, nerdy FBI agent Gracie Hart, who is given the horrific pseudonym Gracie Lou Freebush (one example of the movie's juvenile tendencies) when assigned to infiltrate a beauty pageant to investigate threats of a terrorist attack.
Transforming Bullock from frumpy to stunning is a piece of cake (although she gives pageant coach Michael Caine a run for his money), so the movie's premise is trivial at best. More enjoyable is her character's uncouth disdain for pageant contestants and her mistaken perception that they're all a bunch of bimbos. The movie nicely charts Gracie's realization that her own pageant makeover provides a much-needed ego boost. In addition to Caine's effortless scene-stealing, pageant host William Shatner and organizer Candice Bergen are smart choices for comedic support (Shatner's a perfect Bert Parks wannabe), but the movie desperately needs a credible foundation for its comedy to really pay off. Bullock's bureau boss (Benjamin Bratt) is an unconvincing dimwit, and none of the plotting is as smart as say Beverly Hills Cop in combining procedure with laughs. That leaves Bullock to carry the burden of a comedy that just barely works in her favor. --Jeff Shannon
I like this movie and not for the beautiful and amazing Sandra Bullock,but it was a fun and feel good movie!!!!! The actors were amazing and it was nice to see William Shatner be in a funny movie rather then seeing him in his old days when he was on Star Trek the series!!!!!!! I do recommend seeing this funny movie and trust me it will make you feel good too!!!! Sandra Bullock you rock!!!!
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This movie is a fun little time-passer that's lightweight and pretty funny. Sandra Bullock gets a perfect movie to showcase her comedic talents as Gracie Hart, an FBI agent who is assigned to go undercover to stop someone from destroying the Miss USA pageant by threating all those involved. Gracie is of course a tomboy and has to learn to fit in with all the flirtatious and bubble-headed contestants.
The Deluxe Edition features are really nothing to get excited about though...The Shatner hosted 'Are You A Beauty Queen?' is ridiculous...probably because I'm a male...but I'm really thinking females would get bored with it fairly quickly as well. I was hoping it would be amusing for anyone to play (kinda like the 'Do You Have Anger Issues?' game on the 'Anger Management' disc).
Anyway...This is definitely not a memorable classic that will be quoted for ages, but it doesn't really matter. It's a very enjoyable movie that's good for a fun movie night.
Sanda Bullock, ugly?
Getting past the impossibility of making Sandra Bullock look ugly is a tall chore, but it's a fun movie. `Sorta reminds me of Cher in Moonstruck. She was gorgeous even when she was "plain".
F.B.I. operative Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) famously went undercover in a beauty pageant a while back, and now she's supposedly so recognizable that her only use to the agency is as a pretty public representative. Dumped by her boyfriend (whom Benjamin Bratt wisely decided not to portray this time around), a gloomy Gracie goes along with the promo biz until her friend, Miss United States (Heather Burns), is kidnapped along with pageant official Stan Fields (William Shatner) in Las Vegas. Bullock still has perk to please her fans, but neither she nor her awkward alter-ego has any purpose in a sequel to a movie released five years prior. The result is a desperately unfunny, feature-length commercial for Las Vegas tourism, with outdated homosexual stereotypes (Diedrich Bader, as Gracie's... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Sandra Bullock - Regina King - William Shatner Director(s): John Pasquin DVD Release Date: Released the 21 June 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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If you don't mind a heavy dose of schmaltz and sentiment, this romantic comedy has a gentle way of seducing you with its charms. While You Were Sleeping was the first starring role for Sandra Bullock after her blockbuster success in Speed. In a role that nicely emphasizes her easygoing appeal, Bullock is the reason the movie works at all. She plays Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, a Chicago Transit tollbooth clerk who's hopelessly smitten with a daily commuter, Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher). She saves the object of her affection from certain death after he's mugged and falls onto the train tracks. While Peter is in a coma, she lets his family believe that she is his fiancée, and surprisingly finds herself drawn to his brother (Bill Pullman), for whom the attraction is... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Jon Turteltaub DVD Release Date: Released the 04 February 1998 Usually ships in 24 hours
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You'd expect a cavalcade of cuteness from any pairing of Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant, but Two Weeks Notice admirably avoids the obvious. You get plenty of Bullock's pratfalls and feisty sex appeal, and Grant's snappy comebacks are never in short supply, but first-time writer-director Marc Lawrence (who wrote Bullock's previous hit, Miss Congeniality) adds just enough antagonism to keep this romantic comedy from being a completely foregone conclusion. Neurotic lawyer, environmentalist, and landmark-preservation activist Lucy Kelson (Bullock) is determined to thwart the efforts of billionaire developer and jet-setting playboy George Wade (Grant); of course, fate brings them together and then rips them apart, just as they're beginning to feel the panicky pangs of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Sandra Bullock - Hugh Grant - Alicia Witt Director(s): Marc Lawrence (II) DVD Release Date: Released the 29 April 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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If you've ever doubted how much a star can carry a movie, look no further than Legally Blonde, Robert Luketic's pop fluff about a sorority girl who becomes the reigning brain at Harvard Law School. The film tries way too hard to be pop fluff, but thankfully it also understands the comic glories of Reese Witherspoon. As Elle Woods, the supposedly dimwitted heroine, Witherspoon gives a high-wattage performance that somehow comes across as both lusciously cartoonish and warmly human. It's a radiant comic turn worthy of Marilyn Monroe, and Luketic throws the whole movie at her, even though its intentional kitsch and sledgehammer contrivances don't trust you enough to figure out on your own what might be guilty fun about it. It's a lame movie, essentially, that redeems itself by... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Robert Luketic DVD Release Date: Released the 06 November 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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By now, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have amassed such a fund of goodwill with moviegoers that any new onscreen pairing brings nearly reflexive smiles. In You've Got Mail, the quintessential boy and girl next door repeat the tentative romantic crescendo that made Sleepless in Seattle, writer-director Nora Ephron's previous excursion with the duo, a massive hit. The prospective couple do actually meet face to face early on, but Mail otherwise repeats the earlier feature's gentle, extended tease of saving its romantic resolution until the final, gauzy shot.
The underlying narrative is an even more old-fashioned romantic pas de deux that is casually hooked to a newfangled device. The script, cowritten by the director and her sister, Delia Ephron, updates and relocates... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Nora Ephron DVD Release Date: Released the 04 May 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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