Everyone except Bullock mails this one in but she is awesome. The story is pure popcorn and its fun to watch Shatner and Bergen prancing around. Bullock demonstrates she is more than capable of carrying an entire movie.

Sandra Bullock stumbles and fumbles quite becomingly in this cute-enough farce in which Bullock, as a tomboy FBI agent, has to pose as a beauty-pageant contestant in order to nab a terrorist. The movie, produced by Bullock, is snugly tailored to her gifts as a light comedienne, and it benefits greatly from game veterans like Michael Caine (who teaches Bullock poise and beauty), Candice Bergen (who runs the pageant with an iron fist), and William Shatner (who unctuously emcees the show). Nothing groundbreaking, and too nice at heart to score any real points off the pageant culture, but there are worse ways to spend an afternoon.

I remember watching this with the family, and it wasn't as bad as I predicted. Nothing great, but watchable I guess.

Το παίζει ΚΑΘΕ.ΦΟΡΑ. στην αίθουσα αναμονής του γυναικολόγου μου. Του το ΄χω πει και με αγνοεί επανειλημμένα.
Ούτε να την είχε ξεγεννήσει τέτοια επιμονή.

This is one of those films that you know isn't all that great, but you love anyway.

The plot is paper thin, and the pacing is all over the place, but none of these things matter.

Anyone not taken in by Sandra Bullock's easy charm just doesn't have a heart.

Sandra Bullock is my ham

I really loved Miss Congeniality. It was fun and funny, and I think we all need more films like this. My only regret is not watching it 13 years ago, when I should have.

I really really really love Sandra Bullock. That is all.

I've scored this film 4.5 for three reasons:

1) It's equal parts funny, sweet, kick-ass and fabulous
2) Sandra Bullock was born to play Gracie Hart
3) "April 25th, because it's not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket."

Awful, of course. I think it was my sister's fault that I saw it...

I've had a bad run of 'recorded from TV' films, mostly films that done rather well at the box office, definitely not a hint of arthouse obscurity. So it was with some trepidation that I watched Miss Congeniality, the ridiculous story of a unglamorous police officer who has to enter a beauty pageant to avert a terror threat. Perhaps starting with low expectations helped, but I quite enjoyed this.
The plot doesn't bear thinking about too deeply, the actors play characters whose only depth is in their caricaturisation, and one would have to discuss with one's children why people shouldn't make assumptions about the way people look, and talk about the various other ways in which the film is offensive, but I'm going to give it 6/10 for being better than I expected.

Thought I'd try this one out and see what I'd missed the last 13 years, as I'd not seen either of the MC films until today.
I wasn't missing out.

I remember watching this with the family, and it wasn't as bad as I predicted. Nothing great, but watchable I guess.