Sandra Bullock is simply irresistible, displaying great comedic flair with impeccable timing.
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03/21/01
Miss Congeniality (2000)
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Reviews Counted:112
Fresh:45
Rotten:67
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Though critics say Bullock is funny and charming, she can't overcome a bad script that makes the movie feel too much like a fluffy, unoriginal sitcom.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $105,541,467
Synopsis: The Miss United States Pageant, hallowed and revered home of American beauty for the past fifty years, has received a threat from one of the country's most infamous criminals, the "Citizen." The... [More]
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Candice Bergen, Michael Caine, William Shatner
Director: Donald Petrie
Reviews for Miss Congeniality
Top CriticNo review available.
10/30/01
Top CriticWhile there may not be many surprises, there's little to dislike either.
06/24/06
Sandra Bullock (who also produces) takes a lame idea of a script, splashes her considerable allure all over it, and comes away with an amiable, light-hearted holiday charmer.
05/26/06
Bullock is just plain funny.
12/22/00
It's an average film, packing some good Grace-Harty laughs while others gags fall off the mark.
12/18/00
Dutifully follows each cliché to its painfully obvious conclusion.
12/22/00
This film is a mess -- it can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a drama, a comedy, or an action movie.
12/18/00
What say we let these folks take another stab at it with a better script, OK?
12/20/00
Rent Drop Dead Gorgeous if you want to see how a funny movie on the beauty pageant world is done! This is all formula.
02/26/01
There's something so friendly and unabashedly silly about this production that it pretty much won me over.
12/22/00
Sandra Bullock is in a class of her own and it's only partly a matter of beauty. Perhaps the larger part is that shining, irresistible personality that lights a room, a runway, a silver screen. She can get you interested in the phone directory.
08/09/04
Miss Congeniality isn't awful, but it isn't utterly entertaining or incredibly original either, it's just right in the middle.
12/06/05
Gracie isn't just unattractive outside, she's unattractive on the inside, and the whole point of Makeover Movies is you're supposed to want to identify with Cinderella.
12/22/00
It takes some doing to make a beauty pageant flick that features an intellectually vapid caper plot while being a slap in the face to feminism.
12/27/00
The screenplay ... is a reeking refuse heap of recycled cliches and half-baked humor that only occasionally rises even to the level of a so-so TV sitcom.
12/22/00
Bullock's confident turn cannot, alas, save this Beautiful Women Falling Down entry.
11/16/01
With Bullock, you don't have time to wrap your mind around the notion that she's a butt-kicking tomboy before she's reverted to her trademark cutesy-poo act.
12/21/00
Doesn't exactly turn things around for [Bullock], but it's funny enough and agreeable enough to at least start her on the road back.
12/22/00
Bullock knows how to showcase her vulnerability, but unfortunately she can't compensate for plot implausibilities that don't have to be implausible, or clichés that don't have to be clichéd.
12/22/00
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