This is one of those movies I'd never have seen if it weren't for cable. It isn't the kind of thing being shown in Brownwood, Texas, in the 1970s when we were living there, so I watched it on Showtime or HBO and found it very funny.It's a satire on beauty pageants, as you know if you've heard of it or if you watched the trailer embedded below, and it's very funny. Bruce Dern is hilarious as Big Bob, one of the judges, and if you thought that Barbara Feldon could play only Agent 99, you really need to see this. She's very good as the pageant director. Annette O'Toole and Melanie Griffith show up as contestants.
If you think that beauty pageants are too easy a target, you might be right, but the movie's satire never gets vicious or heavy-handed. You might be surprised at how much fun it all is if you ever run across it. Well worth a look.
