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...finally put their less-than-stellar pasts behind them, respectively offering some of their best work to date. Dillon’s smarmy, understated performance in “Crash,” as part of an ensemble cast also featuring Brendan Fraser, Sandra Bullock, and Don Cheadle, is a stirring reminder of the nuanced actor who impressed in such films as “Rumble Fish” and “Drugstore Cowboy.” Serving double duty as the screenwriter and director of the film, Haggis again displays an ear and eye for real human interactions...
Haggis, assuming the burden of the panorama of American ethnic tensions, needs his perfunctory Muslim character. And I guess they had to do something with Sandra Bullock after they cast her. Still, one wonders if the movie might not be better without the half-baked story lines of Farhad and Jean...
...agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) is not Michael Corleone, Anakin Skywalker, or even Shrek. The original Ms. Congeniality left no audience member rapt in anticipation of her continued life saga. While Ms. Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous is among the most unnecessary sequels in film history (perhaps since Jeepers Creepers 2), it actually succeeds as a cute, fun and campy second chapter following the first’s formula...
...typical comedy sequel reverses the plot of the first film and tries to augment the parts that made the original funny. In Ms. Congeniality, tough cop Gracie Hart begrudgingly turns into a beautiful woman (this is, like, so hard for Bullock) while fighting crime at a beauty pageant; in Armed and Fabulous, the glam has gone to Hart’s head and she must shed her egotism and the Gucci before she can save her best friend Cheryl, the pageant queen from the first (Heather Burns...
...film’s main failing is that, despite being a star vehicle for Bullock, it is her performance that weighs it down. She just seems tired of playing the funny, cute action heroine and it shows as she unenthusiastically utters, “Hey, careful, my guns are in that Fendi.” Considering that Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood has been her most challenging film, one wonders why the pretty comedienne hasn’t knocked off Julia Roberts in a jealous rage...