TownRootGuy It has the usual failing most ugly duckling / Cinderella / Pygmalion / My Fair Lady shows share, at no point is the heroine not gorgeous. It's insulting and yet I don't hate not having to see the ugly, "Before" version of the star. Yes, I'm shallow and part of this problem.This show has hotties everywhere, a great cast AND it fumbles and stumbles its way through the funny to hilarious effect.It is a good show and well worth seeing. I can easily watch this every 3 - 5 years.

HotToastyRag Sandra Bullock, in her infinite grunginess and masculinity, plays an FBI agent, alongside Benjamin Bratt and Ernie Hudson. When the bureau becomes aware of a bomb threat in the Miss United States pageant, Sandra is sent to go undercover as one of the contestants. She's been sufficiently uglied-up in the first part of the movie, so when Michael Caine gives her a makeover and lets her make her grand entrance in a lavender tube dress, she wows the characters in the film as well as the audience! Miss Congeniality is superbly hilarious, and a fantastic hallmark to the end of the never-to-be-repeated 90s comedies. In this lovely genre, that you can only truly appreciate if you lived through it, there are politically incorrect jokes, hardly risqué sexual innuendo, and underlying old-school values. The very premise that a masculine, ugly woman would have to be given a makeover in order to compete in a beauty contest for work would never get made into a film today. But, in the 90s, it was a great idea, and this film was wildly popular at the box office.Candice Bergen, doing an excellent Martha Stewart impression, and William Shatner, another politically incorrect character, are the heads of the Miss United States pageant, and Heather Burns is one of the airhead contestants. If you really hate Sandra Bullock, you probably won't like the movie. But, if you like her or are neutral, you'll split your sides with laughter. She and her costars are pretty hilarious, and everyone in the audience, whether they're an agent or contestant at heart, will find something to laugh at. Watch the preview, since it's a pretty accurate representation of the film, and if you crack up, you'll want to add Miss Congeniality to your collection. I saw it in the theaters when I was ten, and I haven't stopped laughing since.

Maddie1003 Cinephile Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) is a tough-as nails FBI agent, quite capable in her field but lacking everywhere else. When a mission goes awry, she is forced to go undercover as a contestant in Miss United States Beauty Pageant in order to prove her worth. Now this is especially difficult for those cops(in this case Gracie) who lacks all "feminine graces."Here Gracie is not one of those 'cool' cops who can pin her hair with one hand and stab the enemy with the other. She is the one who can match her male colleagues in boxing, makes witty comments, wears baggy jeans, cannot manage her unruly hair, cannot walk in heels, chews loudly, and snorts when she laughs. Sandra Bullock is effortlessly good as Gracie and steals the show with her over-the top antics. She provides all the laughs in the movie.As for the story line, well, it is not as amazing as Sandra. It is pretty entertaining to watch her. You can overlook the story line when she comes on screen.Rating: 6.5/10

slightlymad22 "Miss Congeniality" is easily my favourite movie with Sandra Bullock in a leading rolePlot In A Paragraph: Disgraced FBI agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) goes undercover at the Miss USA Beauty Pagent to prevent a bombing.Bullock proves she is more than capable of carrying a movie, and re-teaming after the "Demolition Man" Bullock and Benjamin Bratt are a lot of fun and have genuine on screen chemistry. Candice Bergman is always a lot of fun (though this is the first time I have seen her in anything since the Burt Reynolds movie "Stick" in 1985. I can't decide who actually stole the movie Michael Caine or William Shatner as both are brilliant, and steal every scene they are in, and that is not said lightly as Bullock is excellent.