A movie can be a 10 for more than one reason. It may not entirely tickle the fancies of your upper-crust, professional critics. But if you find yourself seeing it again--then again, and again--as the years go by and its comic performances consistently gives you those "little jabs of pleasure" that James Mason's Norman Maine talked about, it doesn't need to tickle all the critics. "Miss Congeniality" does that for our family. The script isn't Noel Coward and it doesn't try to be; but the dialogue is clever and delivered with comic gusto--it entertains and supplies good laughs, thanks to a highly talented cast. That's what a good comedy should do. And every once in a while, when we're in the mood for a funny movie and are poring through the channels or the dvd shelf, we give "Miss Congeniality" another run. It never disappoints.
Review of Miss Congeniality
