Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)

That was an excellent one.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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-

I love Sandra Bullock and I am a fan of Diedrich Bader, but this was one of the worst movies I have ever sat through in my entire life. A fine cast wretchedly served by whoever was responsible for extruding this cowpat of a film. The drop-off from Caddyshack to Caddyshack II is known as the industry standard for Sequel Wretchedness, but in my book, the falloff from the wonderful "Miss Congeniality" to this...thing... is even steeper. There is really nothing else to say about this film, but reviews here require ten lines, and that was only four, so I will recapitulate my opinion: this film is so utterly devoid of worth that the best performance was probably Miss Congeniality star Benjamin Bratt's inaudible phoned-in breakup with Sandra Bullock's character. Certainly Bratt's judgment in sitting this one out is superior to that of any other person associated with this unmentionable excrescence, this waste of perfectly good celluloid, this quintessence of crap. I could be bound in a nutshell watching Plan 9 from Outer Space and count myself king of infinite, well, Outer Space, in comparison to sitting in my comfy bouncy American triple-butt-wide Monster Megaplex seat with the photons emitted from this scientific experiment in boresomeness optimization eye-raping me and my innocent confreres. Do I convey my point? Do you get the gist? This is a bad movie. There. That must be ten lines.

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).

50/100. It lacks the charm of the original, but Sandra Bullock once again uses her comic style to save the film from being a complete disaster, but that does not mean it is a good movie. The plot is pretty thin and it does not always hold up, but at times it works very well, but unfortunately, there are not many of these moments. When Sandra Bullock is not a scene, it falls flat. She's good, but can't quite pull this one up to a level of recommending it. It also lacks a solid supporting cast, something the original had. Dolly Parton does have a funny bit though, she is such a good sport! As they say, sometimes it's best to leave well enough alone.