Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed and Fabulous is a comedy film from the year 2005 and the sequel to the film Miss Congeniality in 2000 Sandra Bullock was playing the lead role and has also co-produced the film. .

Action

Three weeks after the events of the first film Gracie Hart is famous, which, however, also has a negative effect on their work as an agent: In a covert operation in a bank, it will be detected and thus a risk to themselves and their colleagues. The FBI, which suffers from a bad image just want, but use the recognition and popularity of Hart in another field: it should be the face of the authority in television appearances and press conferences. The African-American Sam Fuller, with the aggressive because of their behavior no longer wants to work colleague is charged with the protection of persons from Hart. Hart and Fuller do not like, but need to work together from now on.

In the meantime, Miss United States Cheryl Frasier and Stan Fields are kidnapped, the moderator in Las Vegas. The kidnappers demand five million dollars ransom by the organizers of beauty contests. Hart is sent along with her unloved Bodyguard Fuller to Las Vegas, where hard to inform at press conferences on the progress of the investigation. Hard but do not want to just wait and sit on press conferences, but even begins to determine the kidnapping because the kidnapping Cheryl is also her friend. She finds out that Cheryl was not the target of the kidnappers, but it just happens to fall into the planned kidnapping of Stan Fields. Fields also had gambling debts, which leads hard to track down a Shylock.

However, the local FBI chief annoy the unauthorized investigations. After he asks hard, stay out of its investigations and she keeps still, he wants to return both female agents back to New York. The not, however, follow the instructions and stay in the city.

They learn that the kidnappers have previously worked in a show as a pirate on a replica pirate ship in front of the Hotel Treasure Iceland. Hart and Fuller find the bound hostages in the lower part of the ship that is flooded, and release them at the last minute from drowning. As Hart himself is caught in the sinking ship, her colleague Fuller can free them.

The local FBI chief holds even spot a press conference, celebrating the liberation as his success, what hard bumps into him as if by accident and so pushes him into the water in front of the assembled press. Hart and Fuller have learned to appreciate through their experiences and now work as partners together.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film: " continuation of the hit comedy " Miss Congeniality "(2000), in which the transformation of the criminal romance for feminine buddy movie is completed. Tailored to his leading lady Sandra Bullock and her image, can the sometimes very refined film for long stretches well to entertain. "
  • Prism Online: " Sandra Bullock wanted to repeat with this infusion probably the success of the precursor and has produced this successor itself. But this new edition has an even dürftigere story and impresses most by its lack of imagination and his strident style. "
  • Mike Clark wrote in USA Today: " Sporadically amusing ". The figure of gays seem to be " loaned out 500 other comedies ."
  • Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times March 24, 2005, the script was " terrible " ( " dreadful "). Although you might like Sandra Bullock in every movie, but that was not enough to save the movie.

Trivia

  • The cost of production was estimated at 45 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 48.47 million U.S. dollars.
  • Eileen Brennan, who plays the mother of Stan Fields ( William Shatner ) in the film, is younger than her on-screen son in reality a year.

Awards

  • 2005: Teen Choice Award for Sandra Bullock
  • 2005: nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Sandra Bullock and Regina King for a dance scene
  • 2005: nomination for BET Comedy Award for Regina King
2005 in film John Pasquin Screenplay Marc Lawrence (filmmaker) Film score Peter Menzies Jr. Diedrich Bader Loan shark Treasure Island Hotel and Casino Teen Choice Awards Metacritic Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture
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