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10/30/01
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 CriticSandra Bullock is simply irresistible, displaying great comedic flair with impeccable timing.
03/21/01
Top CriticOnly a real diva can pack mace and a gun under her evening gown and still look good.
02/07/01
There are many great actresses working in film today, but few of them have the flair for comedy that Bullock does.
03/19/01
A light-as-a-feather comedy that’s neither ambitious nor particularly original.
02/07/01
Truly, we have mined the beauty pageant satire to death, have we not?
12/21/00
It's a measure of [Bullock's] comic talent that she makes this creamy slip of a film as genuinely engaging as it is.
02/07/01
If you're expecting action and comedy, you'll find this film has little of either.
04/16/01
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
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
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03/24/02
Things get as shaky as Grace adjusting to high heels when her warranted contempt for her vapid competitors is worn down by nothing more than superficial bonding at a giggly pizza party.
12/20/00
Assures us that a silk purse can be made from a sow's ear, but that's never true for a bad script.
12/22/00
It isn't bad so much as it lacks any ambition to be more than it so obviously is.
12/22/00
Top CriticWith 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
Sandra Bullock gives her regular-gal aura a serious workout in Miss Congeniality as an ugly-duckling FBI agent transformed into a beauty-pageant swan. And, by gum, she pulls it off.
10/15/02
Mais um ponto para Sandra Bullock, que prova merecer, assim como sua personagem, o título de Miss Simpatia.
05/31/02
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
Sandra Bullock, who also helped produce the movie, simply shines as Gracie Hart.
02/07/01
It's time for a career makeover for Bullock, who keeps squandering her girl-next-door likeability on trivial projects like this one.
12/21/00
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