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...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...
Everything about Ms. Congeniality 2 is more over-the-top than the first. The first film found its humor in mocking the tackiness of beauty pageantry; the second takes the FBI team to Vegas, the capital of camp and glitz. Homosexual stereotypes and humor abound in both films; ironically, the now girly Hart is actually “gayer” in the second, as she performs in a drag show and pokes (the actual) Dolly Parton’s (fake) breasts...
...Ms. Congeniality 2’s lack of a male lead, catfights, and tampon jokes only reinforce the girl-power theme. It avoids having a saccharine message on the importance of female “friendship” or overtly sexual comedy and stays cute by never taking itself too seriously. Rather than being like Waiting to Exhale women’s-lib drudge, it more closely resembles a male buddy comedy like Bad Boys. Except that instead of excess violence there’s just a whole lot of Vuitton...
...Ms. Congeniality 2 is a very predictable piece of fluff, but, sometimes, a sweet comedy sequel that knows exactly what it’s doing is more enjoyable than a failed philosophical epic (think Matrix Reloaded). While occasionally slow and awkward (and about twenty minutes too long), the movie is a light guilty pleasure in which everyone can enjoy indulging...