A wild, weird and often very amusing black satire on US beauty pageants that proves Hollywood really can make wickedly funny films that mix today's gross-out humour with genuine wit. Nine girls are up for Mount Rose Teen Princess, but the psychotic mother (Kirstie Alley) of dishy but dangerously dotty Becky (Denise Richards) is obsessed with winning, and Becky's rivals start to die off faster than the eight Alec Guinnesses in Kind Hearts and Coronets. Despite much good bad taste, plus a top-billed Kirsten Dunst giving another feisty performance, the film fared poorly at the box-office. Worth seeking out, though, even if, like Kirstie, it loses it towards the end.