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.B.I. operative Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) famously went undercover in a
beauty pageant a while back, and now she's supposedly so recognizable
that her only use to the agency is as a pretty public representative. Dumped
by her boyfriend (whom Benjamin Bratt wisely decided not to portray this
time around), a gloomy Gracie goes along with the promo biz until her friend,
Miss United States (Heather Burns), is kidnapped along with pageant official
Stan Fields (William Shatner) in Las Vegas. Bullock still has perk to please
her fans, but neither she nor her awkward alter-ego has any purpose in a
sequel to a movie released five years prior. The result is a desperately
unfunny, feature-length commercial for Las Vegas tourism, with outdated
homosexual stereotypes (Diedrich Bader, as Gracie's stylist) and the
usually terrific Regina King (of Ray and Jerry Maguire fame) stuck in a glum
role as Bullock's butch bodyguard. Armed? Yes. Fabulous? No