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...typical comedy sequel reverses the plot of the first film and tries to augment the parts that made the original funny. In Ms. Congeniality, tough cop Gracie Hart begrudgingly turns into a beautiful woman (this is, like, so hard for Bullock) while fighting crime at a beauty pageant; in Armed and Fabulous, the glam has gone to Hart’s head and she must shed her egotism and the Gucci before she can save her best friend Cheryl, the pageant queen from the first (Heather Burns...
...mysterious laws of action-movie cliché) and soon they’re facing a high-level conspiracy, a ruthless military dictator, and the threat of unimaginable ecological disaster. As our fearless crusaders scramble to save the world from certain apocalypse, high-paced action sequences ensue. So shotty plot work aside, how does Sahara manage to undershoot even mediocre...
...central characters are even less developed than the plot, leaving the actors no choice but to rely on gimmicky overexaggeration. Throughout the film, Cruz doesn’t have much else to do than run, scream, wait around to be rescued, and occasionally flip her textured tresses...
Ultimately, the film breaks down as all plot lines are hastily condensed to expedite narrative resolution in the last few, pyrotechnics powered sequences. Granted, most of the fights and explosions are impressively well-shot and sufficiently adrenaline-rush inducing. But in the end, there’s just one too many narrow escapes, fortuitous coincidences, and astounding leaps of logical assumption...
...fans of the cult-hit comic, the movie is a lushly realized dream. The dialogue, plot, and scene composition of every second of the story mirrors the original, and its casting is spot-on. Its structure parallels that of Pulp Fiction, and consists of three full-length story arcs from the comic...