Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed And Fabulous
Director
John Pasquin
Classification
12
Genres
Action, Romantic Comedy, Drama, Comedy
DVD Relese Date
11/07/2005
Description
Picking up soon after the events of the first film, this inspired sequel opens with agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) back in action against a team of lady bank robbers, only to have her cover blown by her new found fame. In an effort to capitalise on the publicity - and as a result of being dumped by her boyfriend from the first film - Gracie lets herself be made into the feel-good ambassador of the FBI, helped by the staggeringly hip Joel (Dietrich Bader) and his stylists. The change is not good for the brash Ms. Hart, however, who is soon appearing on morning television and dispensing fashion tips instead of girl-power platitudes. Of course this phase doesn't last long; some goons out in Las Vegas kidnap Miss Congeniality (Heather Burns) and host Stan Fields (William Shatner), prompting Hart, with her intensely angry bodyguard, Sam Fuller (Regina King), to strap on her guns and get back in the game. Her method of operation includes beating up Dolly Parton, defying a sexist FBI bigwig (Treat Williams), and faking cramps. At one point she disguises herself as an old Jewish woman in a wheelchair, and later she's a Las Vegas showgirl doing 'Proud Mary' at a drag club. Bullock's good-natured performance recalls the old-school comedic talents of Bob Hope or Barbara Stanwyck; she effortlessly makes Gracie Hart a unique and complex woman who is capable, sarcastic, intuitive, impressionable, and a secretly lonely tomboy.
Cast
Sandra Bullock, Regina King, Enrique Murciano, William Shatner, Ernie Hudson
Fun Film Info
Jesse James, Sandra Bullock's husband, appears very briefly as the guy who loses the arm-wrestling contest in the bar. Eileen Brennan, who plays Stan Fields' mom, is actually a year younger than William Shatner, who plays Stan Fields. He was born in 1931, she was born in 1932. On May 11, 2004, while filming a scene outside Treasure Island on the Las Vegas strip, a severe sandstorm forced production to shut down for the night.
Quotes
"We're always invested in the anxious Gracie and abrasive Sam" CHARLOTTE OBSERVER