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It is a black comedy which centers around who will win this pageant. As it is a mock documentary, the camera enters into the lives of the front runners. It is a very funny spoof and a great parody of beauty pageants. As the pageant draws near, the front runners begin experiencing a series of calamities, and the body count begins to rise. It is totally irreverent and, at times, quite funny. Denise Richards' talent segment, in particular, is a riot.
Who will win this pageant? Watch the film and find out. You will not be disapoointed. You may even be surprised.
Coming in for much of the "film makers" time is the growing rivalry between the firm favourite for the title, Becky Leeman who's mother (Kirstie Alley) is not only a former winner of the title but also the show's main organiser and poor but cute Kirsten Dunst, who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother and works part-time in the local funeral home doing make-up on the corpses.
The film is absolutely full of superb character parts, which the actors play to the full, taking the complete opportunity to ham it up to the heavens.
Kirstie Alley is nastily bitchy as Gladys Leeman, the mother of the pageant favourite played by Denise Richards. Kirsten Dunst is innocently appealing as the pretty poor girl who should win the prize, backed up by her mother Annette played by Ellen Barkin and best friend Loretta, played by Allison Janney it is these two for me provided some of the funniest moments. But even leaving these aside there still plenty of room for Matt Malloy and Michael McShane to shine as the judges and Collen Douglas and Terry Macy as the representatives of Sarah Rose beauty products.
Where I would question some of the scenes in the film is whether they were shot to be funny or whether they were shot be sad and pathetic. Seeing the last years winner of the pageant, now suffering from anorexia but still performing her "special talent", lip-synching to pop music from a wheel chair isn't the wheeze it perhaps seems to be on paper. I would like to think that these scenes are supposed to be the damning criticism of the beauty contest scene and not just a method to get laughs.
As I say, as a quirky and character driven film it works very well and provided lots of funny moments even though there isn't such a high profile pageant scene in Britain as there is in the United States.
It is compared to This is Spinal Tap but in the first few minutesof this you could not be taken in as they are... Read more
Not to mention butcher humour scenes.
So ugly while so funny!
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