In producing Miss Congeniality, [Bullock has] cast herself ideally, so as to show off her tomboyish giddiness, with a hint of sexy brashness.
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02/07/01
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
Only a real diva can pack mace and a gun under her evening gown and still look good.
02/07/01
Although the script grants its leading lady some snappy verbal and physical humor, the film flickers and dies under a surfeit of stereotypes and one critical piece of ill-judged casting.
02/07/01
A confused mess that's partly funny and partly boring.
01/01/01
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
It's one thing to be far-fetched -- we'll put up with a lot in a broad comedy -- but it's quite another to be so absurd as to render the film utterly unbelievable.
12/27/00
Pro forma hilarity.
12/22/00
A rinky-dink comedy.
12/22/00
Top CriticDespite the film's predictable trappings, Bullock shines, tackling the physical comedy with bodacious aplomb.
12/22/00
For Bullock fans, it's a delight, jolly junk in the season to be jolly.
12/22/00
There's something so friendly and unabashedly silly about this production that it pretty much won me over.
12/22/00
Stuck in its sitcom-style take on an easy target for ridicule, director Donald Petrie chooses cutesy over clever.
12/22/00
Decidedly inconsistent.
12/22/00
Had the proceedings had more bite or intelligence to them -- let alone humor -- the film could have been far better.
12/22/00
It's unlikely that Miss Congeniality will stem the backwards slide of Bullock's career momentum.
12/22/00
Bullock is just plain funny.
12/22/00
[Caine's] performance is probably as deft as the one he gave last year in The Cider House Rules.
12/22/00
An ideal vehicle for Sandra Bullock, who just keeps proving she's one of the finest physical comediennes in Hollywood today.
12/22/00
Petrie's formula of keeping it light and bright, and not too confusing, works.
12/22/00
It's inoffensive, dim-witted fun.
12/22/00
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