Miss Congeniality (2000)
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 115
Fresh: 48 | Rotten: 67
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.
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 20
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.
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Movie Info
Golden Globe-nominee Sandra Bullock ("Miss Congeniality" 1 & 2, "Crash") stars in this comedy about an FBI agent who goes undercover as a beauty contestant to thwart the efforts of a terrorist threatening to blow up the Miss USA Pageant. Co-starring Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner and Emmy-nominee Michael Caine ("Batman Begins" "The Cider House Rules"), Academy Award-nominee and Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Candice Bergen (TV's "Boston Legal," "The In-Laws"), Emmy and Golden Globe winner
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Michael Caine
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Benjamin Bratt
Eric Matthews -
William Shatner
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Ernie Hudson
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John DiResta
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Candice Bergen
Kathy Morningside -
Heather Burns
Cheryl "Rhode Island... -
Melissa DeSousa
Karen "New York" -
Steve Monroe
Frank Tobin -
Stephen Bruton
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All Critics (118) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (67) | DVD (28)
While there may not be many surprises, there's little to dislike either.
Top CriticUnless you think it's a riot to watch Bullock fall over herself repeatedly in high heels, this Miss is a mess.
Pro forma hilarity.
A rinky-dink comedy.
For Bullock fans, it's a delight, jolly junk in the season to be jolly.
There's something so friendly and unabashedly silly about this production that it pretty much won me over.
Pleasant and entertaining; for teens and older.
Its story is far from logical, let alone realistic, yet we laugh and completely buy into the fun.
Bullock's talent for gentle farce is not enough to carry her here; there are only so many times she can get a laugh out of stumbling in her high heels and talking with her mouth full.
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.
Miss Congeniality isn't awful, but it isn't utterly entertaining or incredibly original either, it's just right in the middle.
Basically, this is like a really bad film from the eighties, that seems to be remade with Sandra Bullock digitally grafted onto the horrible plot.
Predictably cute and idiotically misleading.
Convenient bimbo stereotypes, bolstered and magnified.
No one does this kind of thing better than Bullock, but one wonders for how long she can pull it off. Perhaps for as long as it pays.
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.
Caine may save the movie, but Bullock is the movie. The confection rests on her considerable off-center charm and beauty.
With this cutesy bit of ick, Sandra Bullock squanders the good will she engendered with her surprisingly complex portrayal of a party girl in rehab in 28 Days.
Taking a potshot at the beauty pageant industry, Miss Congeniality is entertainment as light as a well-shaped hairdo, fitted out with skin-deep characterizations and a plot that has the all complexity of a G-string bikini.
The title refers to the Miss America pageant award given to "the person who was nicest to everyone," and this seems perfectly apt for Bullock's winning performance.
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.
Like most beauty pageant contestants themselves, Miss Congeniality is all charm and little substance.
Watching Michael Caine and Sandra Bullock interact testily with each other is this film's special treat.
Marc Lawrence's screenplay isn't particularly fresh, but it does include an assortment of snappy one-liners, most of them tripping off the velvet tongue of Michael Caine...
Mais um ponto para Sandra Bullock, que prova merecer, assim como sua personagem, o título de Miss Simpatia.
Audience Reviews for Miss Congeniality
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- Victor Melling: Oh my God! I haven't seen a walk like that since Jurassic Park!
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- Victor Melling: Smilers wear a crown, losers wear a frown.
- Gracie Hart: I would so love to hurt you right now.
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- Eric Matthews: What do you say, Hart?
- Gracie Hart: No freakin way!
- Eric Matthews: Sparky, why not?
- Gracie Hart: Cause I'm not gonna parade around in a swimsuit like some airhead bimbo that goes by the name of, what, Gracie Lou Freebush, and all she wants is world peace?!
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- Kathy Morningside: New Jersey, as you may know, there are many who consider the Miss United States Pageant to be out dated and... and de-feminist. What would you say to them?
- Victor Melling: Oh my God.
- Gracie Hart: Well, I would say that I used to be one of them. And then I came here and I realized that, these women are smart, terrific people who are just trying to make a difference in the world. And we've become really good friends. I mean, I know that we secretly wish the other one to trip and fall on her face, but oh, wait a minute, I've already done that! [everyone laughs and applause] And for me, this experience has been one of the most, rewarding and liberating experiences of my life.
- Victor Melling: My, God, I did it.
- Gracie Hart: And if anyone, anyone, tries to hurt one of my new friends, I would take them out. I would make them suffer so much, that they'd wish they were never born. And if they ran, I would hunt them down. Thank you Kathy. [Stan claps, but everyone mutters amongst themselves]
- Victor Melling: A brief shining moment, and then that mouth.
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- Stan Fields: We'll be back with our final five lesbian--- interviews!
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- Cheryl "Rhode Island": In a way, America's like a big ship. And when we all work together and respect each other, that's when ship get safely home.
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