Miss Congeniality Critic Reviews

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Based upon 9 Critic Reviews
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San Francisco Chronicle | Bob GrahamAdd Critic to Favorites

A mannerless, styleless brute, Bullock's Grace Hart is Eliza Doolittle in sweats.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kevin ThomasAdd Critic to Favorites

A mainstream Hollywood escapist fantasy that in the end melts satire into sentimentality, but it is funny and knowing, detached enough to take a bemused stance toward its calculated tone.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

She (Bullock) has a way of landing on her feet and remaining simpatico no matter how cheesy the script is. That's what happens here.Read the full review

USA Today | Andy SeilerAdd Critic to Favorites

It is a measure of the movie's lack of inspiration that William Shatner is the funniest thing in it.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

It isn't bad so much as it lacks any ambition to be more than it so obviously is.Read the full review

The New York Times | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

Supporting performances add comic spark to a movie that otherwise seems happily, deliberately second-rate.Read the full review

Variety | Robert KoehlerAdd Critic to Favorites

Stumbling its way down the comedy runway, Miss Congeniality is yet another miscalculated vehicle for the ever-feisty Sandra Bullock.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

I'd rather be buried in a mound of Floridian chad than watch director Donald Petrie force Bullock to jump through another desperately unfunny comic hoop.Read the full review

Washington Post | Michael O'SullivanAdd Critic to Favorites

The jokes are lame, the set-up is stupid and Bullock, occasionally a winsome comedienne and here a co-producer, is annoying as heck.Read the full review

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