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Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, a review by addicted2dvd

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Sandra Bullock returns as Special Agent Gracie Hart in a funny, fabulous 'Miss Congeniality' follow up. This time, she's the bureau's new celebrity face, making the rounds of talk shows (her heroics at the Miss United States Beauty Pageant made her too famous for field work). She also has a new partner (Regina King), an agent with anger-management issues and a dim opinion of pampered Gracie. But when Gracie's friends (returning stars Heather Burns and William Shatner) are kidnapped, nothing can keep Special Agent GS13 out of the action. Look out world. The cover girl is going back undercover!

My Thoughts:
There is just no way I could watch the first one and not follow it with part 2. This one I don't feel was as good as the first one... but was definitely enjoyable. I liked the addition of Regina King... thought her character was a good addition since they changed Sandra Bullock's character so much. The Addition of Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey Show) was a decent addition... though I do think I preferred Michael Caine's character from part 1.

(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Sandra Bullock on August 23rd, 2008)

Meet the Fockers, a review by samuelrichardscott

Meet the Fockers (2004) R2 United Kingdom

Overview:
Domestic disaster looms for male nurse Greg Focker (Stiller) when his straight-laced, ex-CIA father-in-law (De Niro) asks to meet his wildly unconventional mum and dad (Streisand and Hoffman).

It's family bonding gone hysterically haywire, in this must-see comedy!

My Thoughts:
The sequel to Meet the Parents is pretty much more of the same although this time we go from the extremely conservative parents of Polo, De Niro and Danner to Stiller's very open parents played by Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand. Hoffman and Streisand play their roles a lot more convincingly but just like the first movie, this is a little short on laughs for me although it is still funny enough to warrant a cheap purchase. 3/5

(From Never Ending Movie Marathon (short reviews) on June 21st, 2010)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

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Alphas: Season One (2011/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia (United Kingdom) Length: 497 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Subtitles:

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Alphas
Season 1.01 Pilot
Writer: Zak Penn (Writer), Michael Karnow (Writer)
Director: Jack Bender
Cast: David Strathairn (Dr. Lee Rosen), Ryan Cartwright (Gary Bell), Warren Christie (Cameron Hicks), Azita Ghanizada (Rachel Pirzad), Laura Mennell (Nina Theroux), Malik Yoba (Bill Harken), Jeff Seymour (The Ghost ("Mr. Morez")), Joe Pingue (Quinn), Callum Keith Rennie (Don Wilson, DoD), Jane Moffat (Sandra Bell), Daniel Kash (Rachel's Dad), Rachael Crawford (Jeannie Harken), Carlos Gonzalez-Vio (Operative), Miranda Edwards (Female FBI Agent), Scott Edgecombe (Corner Store Clerk), Matt Bois (Hotel Manager), Saad Siddiqui (Government Agent), Louise Nicol (Elderly Woman), Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Manager), Glen Cross (Prisoner), Jimi Shlag (Detective), Bobby Manning (Rasta), Sam Moses (Tailor), Lee Oliveira (Hotel Security Guard), Linlyn Lue (Mom With Stroller), Cassia Xuan Avy Cook (Infant Girl in Stroller), Adam Parker (Tyler Hicks), Amanda Lewis (Patti Hicks), Lee Jay Gladman (Agent Persky), May Charters (Woman at Store)

This series is a complete blind buy for me. I haven't even heard of it before. This first episode was okay, and it suggests that the series might be interesting, but it wasn't really a must-see so far.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on August 9th, 2013)