Sandra Bullock’s beloved 2000 action

These days, Sandra Bullock is basically the royalty of Hollywood. She is a winner of the Academy Award who has been nominated for the best actress Oscar twice, makes quite consistently good movies, occasionally appears in Buzzy projects such as “The Lost City” and “Ocean’s Eight”, and is one of the More recognizable artists in every industry. However, in the 1990s and 2000s, Bullock was almost known for a genre: romantic comedies. Now, one of his funniest films and Breezest is making waves in Netflix after landing at the number four in the 10 best streamer films on February 10, 2025 (as reported by what was reported by Flixpatrol).

“Miss the congenser”, who reached theaters in 2000, presents Bullock as Gracie Hart, a special agent for the FBI who never makes much effort to look like “Ladylike” or “Pretty.” This approach does not cause any problem in general, but when a case arises that implies a threat of a bomb in a Texas beauty contest, the office decides that Gracie installs it as Miss New Jersey (since that contestant is about to obtain Disqualified anyway), and make it covert to discover who is behind the threat. Although at first he is resistant and really fights with his contest coach Víctor Melling (a divinely fun Michael Caine), Gracie ends unexpectedly making friends in the contest and finally learns that the brotherhood is important … and that his new friends are not sandy T as superficial as she initially thought.

Honestly, “Miss Congenialy” is a lovely and funny film raised by their performances, but what did critics think about that when he first came out? Not much, apparently.

The critics were hard About “Miss nice” when he first came out. In Rotten tomatoesThe film only has a 41% rating in the Tomatometer, officially that makes it “rotten”, and the critical consensus declares “, although critics say that (Sandra) Bullock is fun and lovely, it cannot overcome a bad script that makes The film feels too much as a comedy of spongy and little original situation. ” Roger Ebert apparently had a similar idea; As he wrote in Your review, “It is not much bad, since it lacks ambition to be more than it is obviously.” Write to The Washington PostMichael O’Sullivan was a lot Meaner: “The jokes are lame, the configuration is stupid and bulock, occasionally an attractive comedian and here a co -producer is annoying as devils.”

Despite the approximate general qualification, a handful of critics actually had good things to say about “lady sympathy.” For Time is overDerek Adams simply wrote: “While there may not be many surprises, he doesn’t like little.” Otherwise, William Thomas in Empire Magazine He seemed to enjoy it genuinely, writing: “A genuine collector who has a lovely turn of the star, ‘Miss Simpenialy’ is really difficult not to like, but hey, sometimes it is worth the effort.” Mark Savlov, reviewing the movie for Austin’s chronicleHe even greeted Bullock specifically: “It is a measure of comic talent (Bullock) that she makes this creamy slip of a film as genuinely attractive as it is.”

No matter what critics said about “Miss Sympathy” when it came out, it is still a basic element of Bullock’s filmography; Simply pay attention to social networks every year when, on April 25, they all publish the Miss Rhode Island clip of Heather Burns, Cheryl Fraser, misunderstanding a question about a “perfect date.” (As she says, April 25 is the perfect date because “it is not too cold” and “not too hot” and “everything you need is a light jacket”).

Sometimes, a sequel is just a terrible idea. Unfortunately, this was definitely true for the “Miss Sympathy” sequel, which carries the subtitle “armed and fabulous” and brings Sandra Bullock, Ernie Hudson and Heather burns alongside newcomers Regina King and Diedrich Bader. This time, Gracie’s secret identity as FBI agent is flown after she tries to return to the field (with her previous beauty contest, which did something infamous), which leads her to become obtaining her own bodyguard, Sam Fuller (King). When Cheryl and the host of the first film contest, Stan Fields (a William Shatner returning), are kidnapped by Ransom, Gracie and Sam have to go to Las Vegas to rescue them.

“Miss the congenser 2: armed and fabulous” It only has a 16% qualification in Rotten Tomatoeswhat is particularly Bad, and critics did not stop. Write to Rogerebert.comRichard Roeper probably expressed it better when he declared: “This, for me, is a classic example of a sequel to do because the first one earned money. I didn’t even like the first.” Wesley Morris, writing to The Boston GlobeHe made the right statement that “nothing with so many people in drag should feel this dragon”, while Roger Ebert was equally overwhelming in his review for The Chicago Sun-Times: “There is no good reason to go and see it.”

Critics were right, unfortunately; “Miss Congenialy 2” stinks. (Poor king, years before she scored an Emmy for “Watchmen” and an Oscar to “If Beale Street could speak”, he ended in this and “LEGALLY BLONDE 2: Red, White & Blonde”, the sandwide with two bad sequelae that never coincide with the heights of their predecessors). The first movie, which is Really funNow he is crushing it in Netflix.