Miss Congeniality Critic Reviews
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A mannerless, styleless brute, Bullock's Grace Hart is Eliza Doolittle in sweats.Read the full review
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
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
It is a measure of the movie's lack of inspiration that William Shatner is the funniest thing in it.Read the full review
It isn't bad so much as it lacks any ambition to be more than it so obviously is.Read the full review
Supporting performances add comic spark to a movie that otherwise seems happily, deliberately second-rate.Read the full review
Stumbling its way down the comedy runway, Miss Congeniality is yet another miscalculated vehicle for the ever-feisty Sandra Bullock.Read the full review
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
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