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Sandra Bullock just knows how to make stupidity so cute, 23 March 2005
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"The reason for a sequel," says Bullock, "is that Marc (Lawrence,
writer and producer) and I found ourselves on numerous occasions
imagining what Gracie would have gone on to do after her big triumph at
the pageant and how all the media attention would have affected her."
Yeah. I'm gonna take a wild one and say the fact that the original made
over $300 million (including domestic AND worldwide gross, rentals, and
DVD sales) probably had a little something to do with it as well.
Let's be honest here, do you really need a review to convince you of
whether or not you want to see this? Seriously, if you watch the
trailer and read this review and STILL see the movie, then I don't want
to hear any complaints. Walk out of the theater with a smile on your
face or I'll put one there, OK? Otherwise, don't see it. Come on,
you're not really expecting something fresh and original are you? Have
you read the plot line? Miss Congeniality 2 obviously runs a
predictable path. Gracie is originally reluctant to become Ms. FBI
Barbie, but then she embraces the role and becomes a wee bit too
wrapped up in it. But wait! William Shatner and Miss America are
kidnapped! So it's off to Las Vegas to run a little PR. Enter Treat
Williams as the Las Vegas FBI supervisor (Collins) who has ambitions of
writing his own book and doesn't care for Gracie coming in and stealing
his thunder. You might as well have cued the sinister music and given
him a Cheshire cat to pet and a handlebar mustache to twirl.
It'll come as a shock to approximately three sub-70 IQ viewers that
Collins disregards Gracie's attempts at helping and begins to steer the
investigation in the wrong direction. You know what that means, right?
Time for Gracie to shed the FBI Barbie image and go back to her old
ways! Somebody call up Memento, and let it know that a new master of
unpredictability is here and its name is Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and
Fabulous! OK, so not really. But who cares? The movie ramps up the
cheese, the stupidity, the silliness, and the camp, and it revels in
it. The best thing I can say about this sequel is it knows exactly what
it is, it knows exactly what its audience wants, it knows exactly how
ridiculously over-the-top everything is, and it doesn't care one whit
what the critics think. There's no shame to be found here, and for
that, I tip my hat.
I'll be honest, if you try to put a movie like this on the shoulders of
Julia Stiles or Kirsten Dunst then I'm running screaming for the exit
like I'm Haley Joel Osment at Neverland Ranch. But I love Sandra
Bullock, and she has the charm and the personality to make me smile at
the stupidest stuff. She trips about 24 times, dances at a drag club in
a ridiculous outfit, lays a beatin' on a 6'7" behemoth to the tune of
Spiderbait's Black Betty, and she forces me to be entertained by it.
Admit it, she has a knack for making insanity absolutely adorable.
Oh, and who can forget the addition of a partner! Regina King (the girl
from 227) is an FBI transfer with anger management issues. She's
assigned as Gracie's bodyguard, and she has a bad habit of
overextending herself physically. Yep, you guessed it, they don't
initially get along. Can you see hijinks and shenanigans ensuing? I
think you can! Is this a great movie? Not by any means. It's not even
as good as the original, a big reason being that William Shatner is
regretfully underutilized (although he does have a great line about his
friend being run over by a milk truck). Oh, and go ahead and make sure
you bring your little yellow bucket to puke in during the final scene.
A producer somewhere obviously spoke up and said, "Hey, we're one
aww-inducing scene short of our quota," and thus the final scene was
born.
But you just have to accept that and the fact that this is a comedy
that'll have you shaking your head and rolling your eyes more than
once. In fact, I should be ashamed to admit that I let myself enjoy it
as much as I did. But if you go into the movie expecting to have a good
time then you should walk out satisfied. The screening audience
absolutely loved it. Granted, proclamations such as, "That is the best
movie I've seen this year!" are a bit much, but this is indeed a movie
that knows its audience and plays to it effectively.
Are you expecting high art? If so, then you really need to learn how to
better analyze movie trailers. You also need to learn how to better
analyze movie titles. Armed and Fabulous? One of the great absolutes in
life is any time a movie tries to be cute and makes a play on words
with a common phrase (in this case, "armed and dangerous") in its movie
title, then you better have a tent with you because mama, it's time to
set up camp! The only thing missing here is a cameo by Adam West.
I think I'm gonna follow the trend. I'm gonna write a script about
baseball called America's Pastime where the home team loses the
championship. However, they will get their revenge in the sequel -
America's Pastime 2: Payback's a Pitch. It's gonna rule. You know it,
and I know it.
Bottom line, America - how often in life will you get the chance to see
Sandra Bullock in boxers and a t-shirt, all while sportin' some long,
shiny, straight hair? At the very least there is entertainment value in
THAT! *sighs wistfully* Rating: 3 (out of 5)
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