lisafordeay Sandra Bullock is back as Gracie Hart in this half decent sequel where her best friend (who happened to have won the beauty contest back in the first movie )is kidnapped along with the host and its up to Gracie to save them.Of course she broke up with Eric from the first movie and she is now teamed up with Sam Fuller(Regina King from A Cinderella Story)who is a tough cookie cop who doesn't get along with Gracie as the two don't get along at all. So Gracie goes to Las Vegas undercover again and meets Sean Maguire who also happens to help her and Fuller. But will Gracie save her best friend and the host of the beauty contest?Now before I admit what I thought of it I just want to say that the first one was a very good movie so does this one hold up.......well not exactly. There is one scene where Sandra Bullock disguises herself as an old woman in a retirement village and later as a drag queen with Sam Fuller acting as a male version of Tina Turner and that was funny but not as good as the first one.My advice watch the first one instead of this one.A decent film and for that I am giving it a C-

werefox08 The first Miss Congeniality was dreadful, (i gave it 2 out of 10). This...made 5 years after the first is about 20 times worse. If there was a funny line in there, I missed it. Miss Con "one" made a lot of money...because of the pulling power of Sandra Bullock. So, Miss Bullock had some free time, produced this , virtually knowing here huge fan base would pull this through. It worked, this really terrible film did make money. Not as much as the first piece of trash, but a tidy sum nevertheless. The most amazing fact about Bullock is...she is not funny. It is that "girl next door look she has" that makes the fans go ga ga. She doesn't act at all in this sequel. She plays...the girl next door. I did not want to see this---but i lost a bet---and this was my punishment. (I still get night-mares about it).

JoeytheBrit Sandra Bullock returns as the FBI agent glammed up in the original movie to go undercover at a beauty pageant. This time, her exploits in the first episode have made her instantly recognisable to the public at large – something of a drawback when you're trying to work undercover. To overcome this problem, the agency makes her the face of the FBI, appearing in chat shows and at book signings, dressed up to the nines and totally losing touch with the real her. Only when her old friends Miss USA and William Shatner are kidnapped and held to ransom does she return to butt-kicking normal.The big idea here is to reverse the original film – glamorous personality becomes dressed-for-action cop – and as ideas go it's singularly dreary and unattractive. Miss Bullock is here given a testy fellow-agent with the unlikely name of Sam Fuller, and their relationship follows the timeworn mismatched buddy arc with such bovine lack of imagination that as I watched I half-expected the characters themselves to become as bored with each other as I had. Everyone involved up there on the screen seems to know exactly what is going on: a cynical attempt by the studio to cash in on an original that succeeded beyond their expectations. So keen were the accountants to capitalise on that success that they calculated the quota of laughs required is immaterial. I mean, why bother? Everybody remembers Miss Congeniality and how funny it was, that'll be more than enough to recoup the cost of the second-string cast and production costs, leaving the way clear to make a modest but commercially acceptable profit. After all, there's not many ask for their money back once they've been lured into the cinema…Bill Shatner might have been able to liven things up a little had he been given the chance, but his part is relegated to little more than half a dozen lines. Bullock looks like she's focusing on her next big part and can't wait to get this liability out of the way, while Treat Williams wonders where it all went wrong.

ctomvelu1 Talk about a lackluster sequel. Sandra Bullock is back as Gracie, a klutzy but shrewd FBI agent, this time on the trail of two friends who have been kidnapped. The trail leads to Vegas, which was a big mistake. Vegas is a poor choice for making a movie, with very rare exception. It's not a real city, and you can feel it. And the plot is all over the place, including having Bullock dress up as a Vegas showgirl for reasons I have mercifully, already forgotten. Benjamin Bratt is not in the sequel, which leaves Bullock with no one worth playing off here. And Bill Shatner as one of the kidnap victims has virtually no screen time, another huge mistake. Whoopi Goldberg made her Vegas-set comedy work with SISTER ACT. But Bullock, who I usually enjoy, cannot save this turkey. And a host of familiar faces, including Regina King, Eileen Brennan, Ernie Hudson, Liz Rohm and Treat Williams, are in all truth simply wasted here. MISS CONGENIALITY 2 is not quite as bad as Bullock's other big-name sequel, SPEED 2, but it's close.