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Miss Congeniality
After swatting flies all day (see previous blog), last night
I relaxed with this pleasant, undemanding little movie. After watching the Seahawks get creamed in
Green Bay for a while this afternoon, I decided it would be more fun to write a
blog. So here it is.
Do you know that Sandra Bullock is 52? I haven’t seen her for a few years, but she
always strikes me as being about 30, beautiful and brainy. Other important cast members include Michael
Caine (of whom one can safely say that no movie with him in it is ever truly
bad), Candice Bergen (who had a brief heyday about then, now thankfully
terminated), someone named Benjamin Bratt
(whom I liked but know nothing about ) and – sadly – Captain Kirk. Where were you Scotty? You might have beamed him out of there. I hate to see a man who can stand down the
Klingons make a fool of himself.
Okay, the movie is only 16 years old and was fairly popular
(the critics didn’t like it, but who listens to them?). That means you’ve probably already seen
it. So see it again; it is good for
psychic tension. The plot is not
particularly deep or taxing to follow: sad-sack imperfectly civilized female
FBI agent is transformed into a beauty queen to stop a threat to the Miss Something
beauty pageant. Plenty of chuckles, lots
of pretty girls – what’s not to like?
BUT be sure to avoid Miss Congeniality II, which (I saw the
first 30 minutes) was terrible. Even
Michael Caine couldn’t have saved it.
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