When people think of small town beauty pageants, Drop Dead Gorgeous is a good film to make their image come to film. The film has a good satirical comedic plot with hints of dark humor that many young adults or teens would find humorous. The mockumentary style dark comedy is about a Minnesota, small town beauty pageant. The story follows a group of teenage contestants as they compete for the title of Mount Rose America Teen Princess. The documentary-style film features many interviews with the contestants, their families, and the pageant officials. The film mostly revolves around the rivalry between two of the contestants, Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst) and Becky Leeman (Denise Richards). As the competition heats up, dark secrets are reveled …show more content…
Another contestant Lisa Swenson (Brittany Murphy) sees what happened and decides to drop out of the pageant and gives her costume to Amber Atkins. Amber Atkins performs a tap dance solo that blows away the crowd and judges, making Becky Leeman´s horrible singing horrendous to the judges. The pageant is over and placements are being announced, Leslie Miller (Amy Adams) received seconded runner up, Amber Atkins received first runner up, and Becky Leeman took the crown. The next day there was a big victory parade down town, Her float was made into a huge swan that erupted in flames then exploded which resulted in killing her. Gladys Leeman (Kirstie Alley), Becky Leemans mother went absolutely crazy, she is in rage confessing to all the things she has done to make her daughter win the pageant, leading to her arrest for the deaths and damages she has …show more content…
Amber grabs the microphone right away and starts taking over the new report.
Strengths: Thoroughly in my opinion the film Drop Dead Gorgeous was a well made satirical film. In my experience with competing in pageants they did a good job nailing the stereotypes of certain people and making it humorous. I loved the exaggerations and dark humor that came with this film. The directors did a great job portraying a small town beauty pageant as along with making it funny.
Weaknesses: As of weaknesses in this film, I couldn’t find many personally other than the acting. Some of the scenes could have been better acted out, for example the fight between Amber Atkins and Becky Leeman. I want to believe that purposely wanted it to have cringy acting but not one person makes that