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List Price: $27.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 167285
Released: June 21, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
HAVING BECOME A MEDIA CELEBRITY FOLLOWING HER HEROIC PAGEANTEXPLOITS, GRACIE HAS BEEN SPENDING MORE TIME LATELY AT THESALON THAN AT THE SHOOTING RANGE. WHEN HER FRIENDS AREKIDNAPPED IN LAS VEGAS, GRACIE'S ALL-OUT EFFORTS PUTS HER INJEOPARDY WITH THE FBI TOP BRASS.
Description of Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed and Fabulous (Full Screen Edition with Soundtrack CD):
F.B.I. operative Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) famously went undercover in a beauty pageant a while back, and now she's supposedly so recognizable that her only use to the agency is as a pretty public representative. Dumped by her boyfriend (whom Benjamin Bratt wisely decided not to portray this time around), a gloomy Gracie goes along with the promo biz until her friend, Miss United States (Heather Burns), is kidnapped along with pageant official Stan Fields (William Shatner) in Las Vegas. Bullock still has perk to please her fans, but neither she nor her awkward alter-ego has any purpose in a sequel to a movie released five years prior. The result is a desperately unfunny, feature-length commercial for Las Vegas tourism, with outdated homosexual stereotypes (Diedrich Bader, as Gracie's stylist) and the usually terrific Regina King (of Ray and Jerry Maguire fame) stuck in a glum role as Bullock's butch bodyguard. Armed? Yes. Fabulous? No. --Steve Wiecking
Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed and Fabulous (Full Screen Edition with Soundtrack CD) Reviews:
armed and women in black 
2009-10-02 - Sandra Bullock does a good job of being a down and out
FBI agent who becomes a TV shill for the FBI.
With a ghosted book, a personal trainer, a make up team
and a body guard
she goes to Los Vegas when her friend Miss America
is kidnapped. How she solves the mystery of the crime
while being thwarted by the agent in charge
and becomes friends and partner with an anger management
black women FBI agent is the plot of the movie.
The movie is actually pretty funny as Hollywood comedy
in the Ben Stiller era goes! Not loss of taste takes place
even in a cross dressing night club!
I enjoyed the result, but wouldn't play the movies again.
Better than the first 
2009-06-02 - Maybe it's because I'm a rebel but I loved this movie. I thought it was hilarious. Sandra Bullock is one of my favorite actresses and Regina King is amazing as well, they just work so well together. Their partnership and how they manage to become partners is what makes this movie a winner. You could tell they just had fun with this. Great movie in my opinion.
such a cute movie
2009-04-06 - I love this movie, it didnt get a lot of press but I can watch it over and over again.
Disappointing sequel that does not live up to the original 
2009-03-14 - Miss Congeniality 2 is billed as a comedy, but I doubt if I laughed more than two or three time through the whole movie. The screen play is weak and the characters are either flat and boring or depressing. On a relative scale if we rate the original Miss Congeniality as a ten then the sequel doesn't deserve better than a four.
The class that Michael Caine brought to the original is completely missing in the sequel. Neither Enrique Murciano or William Shatner come close to Michael Caine.
The box office results are also revealing. The original made well over two hundred million worldwide, but the sequel barely broke one hundred million worldwide.
In conclusion a dull and lifeless movie. Unless you are a diehard Sandra Bullock fan or simply must see every sequel skip this movie and save your money.
The sequel doesn't live up to the first movie
2009-01-22 - It's been two weeks since FBI agent Gracie Hart (the fantastic Sandra Bullock) made news headlines for saving the Miss United States Pageant and winner Miss Rhode Island, Cheryl Frasier (Heather Burns), from being blown up by vengeful Pageant Director Kathy Morningside. She's on a bank stakeout to capture an organized group of bank robbers called The Housewives. But things go wrong when Gracie is recognized by an adoring fan, and the Housewives almost get away. Now considered too recognizable to be a field agent, her popularity jeopardizing herself and other agents, FBI Director MacDonald (Ernie Hudson) decides to make Gracie the "New face of the FBI", a publicity position. Agent Eric Matthews has broken up with her (they were together at the end of the first movie) so Gracie decides to take the position. She's introduced to effeminate Joel Meyers (Diedrich Bader - Office Space, The Beverly Hillbillies) who's going to do a total makeover on her, not just makeup and walking like Victor Melling did, but attitude and public appearance as well. (Diedrich Bader is fantastic in his role as Meyers)
Ten months later, Gracie is making television appearances on Regis's show, author of a book, and traveling everywhere on publicity tours to promote the FBI as a kinder, gentler organization. Assigned to be her body guard is new agent Sam Fuller (Regina King), a tough, angry, undisciplined agent who no one wants to work with. Sam doesn't take crap from anybody, and especially dislikes Gracie who is now the epitome of what she hates in women. When Miss United States Cheryl Frasier and Master Of Ceremonies Stan Fields are kidnapped and held for ransom in Las Vegas, MacDonald sends Gracie there to handle all the press conferences. But Cheryl is Gracie's friend, and Gracie can't just stand by the sidelines; she's an agent after all. So Gracie, against MacDonald's wishes, dives headfirst into the investigation, dragging Sam with her. She's determined to find her friends before the kidnapper kills them.
'Miss Congeniality 2: Armed And Fabulous' was a disappointment after the first movie. It's more stilted and seems to try too hard to be funny, whereas the humor in the first movie flowed naturally. The plot isn't as well written as the first movie either. Sandra Bullock still gives an amazing performance, but its wasted in this sequel. Although, the drag show near the end is pretty hilarious, even if it wasn't necessary to the plot. William Shatner doesn't look well in this movie, and his role wasn't nearly as cleverly written. The visit to Stan's mother at the nursing home was funny also.
Overall, this sequel was unfortunately a miss, which was disappointing to me. I liked the Gracie Hart character so well I would have watched a third movie, but Armed And Dangerous was such a flop that a third movie with the character will never happen. I'm giving the movie 3 stars simply for Sandra Bullock's performance, without her the movie would be 0 stars. Rent, don't buy. Enjoy!
