Miss Congeniality (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #19 extract: Miss Congeniality (2000)



I should probably be calling this a guilty pleasure, but I won't. Miss Congeniality is a cheap-at-heart, high-concept movie that knows what it's doing and pulls it off brilliantly. There is nothing special about this movie apart from the fact that it does what you know it will do flawlessly and without letting you down. Miss Congeniality is then like an athlete, or, to make a better comparison, a beauty pageant contestant, who works really hard and it's incredibly technical, but was never born with talent, perfect genetics and originality. It's got good personality and spirit though, which makes up for the second or third place that it rightly earns. 
All of this means that the script it tight, the performances are strong and the direction is competent, leaving this movie a really pleasant 2 hours or so sat quite mindlessly in front of the T.V.

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