Miss Congeniality (2000)

When this first came out, I had friends who raved about it, but it sounded like the dumbest premise on earth to me, so I was all prepared to hate this movie and was surprised to find it was actually not all that bad. The mystery was pretty lame ("The crown! It's hidden in the crown!" Um... okay...) but Sandra Bullock manages to carry the movie all the way through. There's nothing uproariously funny in this, nothing that made me laugh out loud or even think, "Now THAT was great," but there was also nothing that made me hate it, which, in my book, makes it a "not bad" which is much higher than I expected it to be. 3 stars.