Miss Congeniality

Pros: Sandra Bullock, Michael Cain
Cons: Benjamin Bratt

Ok, the commercials made this seem like a dumb movie. Sandra Bullock in a dumb movie? I can see boring, just look at Hope Floats. But, normally, she delivers. SO, I went to see this movie

Plot

Miss FBI Tomboy just screwed...

Pros: Side-splitting, gut-wrenching humor; Sandra Bullock's versatility
Cons: The concept has been done before

The concept is not new. A diamond in the rough that is cut and shaped into something beautiful. It's as old as Shakespeare's Taming Of The Shrew and Shaw's Pygmalion.

In movie form, we've seen it as Pygmalion's musical...

Pros: punchline scene
Cons: stock characters

Sandra Bullock is and has always been a very watchable actress. By that I mean that she's beautiful enough that men find her attractive and yet has that easygoing, girl next door demeanor that women don't feel threatened by. This makes her a very...

Pros: less misogynistic than most popular films
Cons: note the word "less"

To start this off, I think it should be know that I am NOT a Sandra Bullock fan. While I enjoyed "Love Potion #9" and "Speed," I have never been a Bullock-junkie. Yes she’s cute. Yes she’s funny. Yes she has adorable co-stars. But...

Pros: Appealing stars.
Cons: Script from basic cable movie of the week.

Sandra Bullock is a wonder. An actress with great appeal who apparently picks her scripts by grabbing them out of a pile blindfolded (witness Speed 2, 28 Days, Forces of Nature). Yet somehow she seems to come out of these movies unscathed, and in the...

Pros: Fun, fast-paced, decent plot, entertaining!
Cons: Bad guy not very sinister, some profanity,sexual references

Going to see Miss Congeniality was an end of the year treat for us. I find Sandra Bullock's films entertaining, and was sure I would like this one. She didn't disappoint!

Miss Congeniality is a fun and entertaining film with a decent plot....

Pros: Michael Caine is, as usual, very good, Bullock has a lot of charm...
Cons: ...But doesn't display it, everyone is very stupid

I waited about as long as I could to see “Miss Congeniality”. Nothing new opened over the weekend, so it was time.

Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock), a tomboy FBI agent, botches an operation. Eric Matthews (Benjamin Bratt), a fellow agent, manages...

Pros: Sandra Bullock is funny
Cons: Light plot. Not enough Benjamin Bratt

Miss Congeniality received mixed reviews from the movie critics and viewers. The theater I went to was full and there were lots of laugh. It might not be an Academy Award winning film but it was funny and my husband and friends enjoyed the movie as much...

Pros: Sandra Bullock is attractive… relatively
Cons: The plot is too contrived for her. And she looks too old.

I watched Miss Congeniality while drinking with friends during a vacation up in the Catskills in ups ...

Pros: A few funny moments will make you chuckle.
Cons: A poor plot leaves the actors grasping for a decent performance

Miss Congeniality is a lighthearted comedy mixing humour and thriller together to hopefully capture more than one audience. The combination of humour and comedy do not gel together well as we get bogged down in a fairly unfunny plot.
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Pros: original, Sandra is great, and support was good.
Cons: One major plot flaw

Introduction

Okay now don't take this the wrong way, but we guys know there are movies out there that seem more orientated towards the women. Usually guys just don't want to go and see these "girlie" films. I had some...

Pros: Sandra Bullock is always fun to watch.
Cons: Not exactly a solid plot,, but it's sufficient.

I probably don’t have to tell you why it sucks to be a tomboy who lives in San Francisco. That’s right- everyone assumes you’re a lesbian. The truth of the matter is that I am a 30 yr old virgin who has never been on a date before because even though I...

Pros: Sandra Bullock; acting; one or two amusing moments
Cons: very cliched and predictable

It seems like the older I get the more I steer away from mainstream movies. I was discussing with a friend today the last three times I’d been to the movies, recalling that I’d seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon twice and O Brother, Where Art Thou. She...

Pros: A few nice comic performances
Cons: Predictability, shift in tone towards the end

There has been a glut in beauty pageant movies over the last few years ("Beautiful," "Drop Dead Gorgeous," and if you really wanna' get technical... every plotless high-cheekbone movie aimed at teens). So why not have one more?
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Pros: Bullock and Caine Do Great Work, Especially Together / Some very funny moments
Cons: Clumsy Script Wants to Make Fun of and Support Beauty Pageants without making a sound case either way

Beauty pageants are an easy target for satire and Miss Congeniality knows this. For most of the movie’s humor is dedicated to taking shots at the air-headed contestants and those who take such contests seriously enough to make a career out of it. So why...