The Bunny and Coug Miss Congeniality
Review:
Bunny Sez:
I just loved this movie! Of course, I
typically like all of Sandra Bullock’s movies. She
personifies the girl next door in my opinion. I loved her
in The Thing Called Love and Practical Magic. She is so
pretty, yet isn’t threatening to a females ego.
 Coug and I took the 13 year old
daughter to see this flick. Our 13 year old is a
major-league tomboy and she and I laffed until we just
about cried at some of the scenes involving high heels
and hair gel.
Sandra Bullock plays Gracie, who is a loner, tomboyish
FBI agent trying to follow in the footsteps of her mother
who was a distinguished FBI agent. Benjamin Bratt
<droooooool> plays Gracie’s fellow agent, Eric
who I honestly never thought of as a hottie until I saw
him in swim trunks in this movie. Talk about gorgeous
pecs and 6-pack abs.
The premise of this movie is to protect a beauty pageant
from attack by a terrorist. Gracie goes undercover as
Miss New Jersey in order to gain access to all areas of
the pageant without raising suspicions. With a large
amount of disdain and cracks about beauty queen airheads,
Gracie heads to the site of the pageant, San Antonio.
Under the tutelage of her swishy Pageant Consultant, Vic,
wonderfully played by Michael Caine - her transformation
from Ugly Duckling to swan takes place in an airplane
hangar. The funniest part of this scene is watching
Gracie’s swagger after finishing a bikini wax.
William Shatner and Candace Bergen play the host and
hostess of the pageant and their characters are well
played. Gracie meets her fellow contestants and actually
begins making female friends for the first time in her
life. After many funny pratfalls which poke fun at the
things women do to look pretty, Gracie ends up saving the
girls and the pageant while having a positive experience
that she never imagined possible when starting this case.
While everyone won’t love this film, it certainly is
worth a matinee trip to the theaters for a light-hearted
afternoon.
Coug Sez:
What I wouldn't give to be in Sandra
Bullock's shoes. I'd get $15 million for making crappy
movie after crappy movie. And you can't blame this one on
her lack of creative control, because she was also the
producer.
Even at her peak, Speed and While You Were Sleeping, she
was never much of an actress. But women seemed to like
her, and guys were happy to take their dates to her
movies just to look at her for 2 hours. That day is now
officially over. After another in a long line of
celluloid bombs, she is no longer getting my $8 dammit!!
I won't even give her the $5 economy price!! It's the
$.99 rental bin for you from now on, Sandy.
This movie had the most asinine plot (and I use the term
loosely) of any movie in recent memory. It involves
Sandra Bullock as an FBI agent going undercover as a
Beauty Pageant contestant to prevent a mad bomber from
continuing his reign of terror. The saving grace would
have been if the bomber had blown up the script before
shooting had begun, and they didn't have another copy.
The supporting cast of Benjamin Bratt, Michael Caine,
William Shatner and Candace Bergen offer very little to
liven things up, save for a few amusing lines delivered
by Caine's gay beauty contest consultant character.
This one may be on video shelves by Valentines Day.
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