It’s Sandy New Year! We continue a January tradition of viewing an Old Millennials-era Sandra Bullock movie. For 2021, we’re putting on our best pageant gowns for “Miss Congeniality,” the comedy where a dorky FBI agent must go undercover at a Miss America-style beauty pageant in order to stop a terrorist attack. Terrorists blowing up young women… apparently hilarious!
Sandy Bullock is a good agent (or is she?), but because she wears her hair up and snorts when she laughs, none of the bros at the FBI respect her. The chief douchebag is played by Benjamin Bratt, who CAN’T. STOP. CHEWING. ON. FOOD. for the entire movie. Good grief, man, eat on your own time. We’re watching a charming Sandy Bullock movie here!
Michael Caine co-stars as a pageant guru, William Shatner and Candice Bergen play the pageant’s head honchos, and a few other dummies run around the movie ogling the women. Look… Sandy Bullock looks hot all of a sudden! What a shocking turn of events!
While both Old Millennnials hosts admire Sandy’s charming lead performance, there’s some debate about how “Miss Congeniality” goes about sidestepping all its ingrained and rampant misogyny. And HOW is Bratt set up to be the romantic lead here? Between all the sexist comments, dopey mugging and excessive, open-mouthed chewing, there’s no way this guy deserves to date ANY GIRL at the end. At least Sandy beats the crap out of him as part of her self-defense presentation during the pageant’s talent segment.
The Old Millennials also talk pageants in general (“What’s your idea of a perfect date?”), the episode of “Seinfeld” where Jerry dates a pageant contender and how Sandra Bullock just might be one of the best pratfall comedians ever. She trips and falls better than Steve Urkel!
At the end of this episode, you’ll want to HUUGGG US. You’ll want to KIIIIIIISSSS US. You’ll think we’re GORRRRRGEOUS.
Also discussed in this episode
- Promising Young Woman (2020)
- News of the World (2020)
- Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Season 2 (2021)
- An American Werewolf in London (1981)
- American Reunion (2012)
- MacGruber (2010)
Past “Sandy New Year” episodes of Old Millennials Remember Movies
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