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The first word that comes to the lips when thinking of sequels is hackneyed, and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Dangerous gives this word its meaning, as the film lacks both freshness and originality.
The film follows the routine formula where simpleton characters offer one-dimensional personalities with very little depth.
This is not because the actors cannot act, but rather because the story as a whole seems fatally flawed in development as seen in poorly made sitcoms.
A fortunate event is that Crash (2004) had a delayed release where Sandra Bullock pulled off a stellar performance, which is proof that she is a very talented actress.
Hopefully, this film will drift into oblivion and not remerge with another sequel with the FBI agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock).
Gracie finds her FBI career compromised when people recognize her presence due to the Miss United States beauty pageant show where she competed while solving a crime as an undercover agent. The FBI is also suffering from some bad press, which compels administration at the FBI to request that Gracie become the new face of the FBI. This is something she does not want to do, but her options are limited and she agrees to approach her new assignment. Through her assignment she must be presentable and the FBI hires her a stylist, Joel (Diedrich Bader) with two assistants. In the middle of this she also finds out that her boyfriend is dumping her, which presents a new situation for her that she does not know how to deal with. After ten months of training and talk shows Gracie meets with one of her friends Cheryl (Heather Burns) who most know as Miss United States. It is a dear reunion, but their ways must part, as they both have to get back to their hectic lives. Shortly after, Cheryl and Stan Fields (William Shatner), whom we know from the first film, are kidnapped and the kidnappers demand five million dollars for her life. Gracie is asked to fly to Las Vegas with her newly assigned bodyguard, FBI agent Sam Fuller (Regina King) and no it is not the director, where Cheryl was kidnapped to act as the spokesperson for the FBI press conferences, but she cannot stay out of the loop so she starts her own investigation. Miss Congeniality 2 has moments of humor and some valuable messages. However, much of the humor seems to evaporate through awkward and crude humor that occasionally feels untimely and out of place. There are also situations where the film tries to give valuable lessons, but the lessons emerge with simplistic self-importance obvious enough for a toddler to understand. One should expect a little more from a film that is rated PG-13. In the end, the film has offered some moments of entertainment, but also moments of awkwardness and narrative clumsiness, which truly hurts the overall cinematic experience. |
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| BY KIM ANEHALL – 6/21/2005 | |
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The Internet Movie Database. |
