Little Miss Sunshine is not by any stretch an intelligent film. However, you can tell that it's writer was. For the film allows the misadventures of the family to display the level of retardation of many different peoples. The film is about a family that is traveling to a child beauty pageant in their shitty hippie bus. The bus can only start by rolling down a hill and reaching a certain speed (this results in one of the best parts of the movie where Olive (the girl for the pageant) is left at a gas station). The film is pretty good, although it has the tendency to be too quiet or too annoying. The deadpan Carrel as the suicidal gay uncle is very well played, and Alan Arkin as the inappropriate grandfather is also excellent. The rest of the family (the mother and father) are obnoxious. The way that the film gains speed though, is very pleasant to watch. The characters are at such a high level of bullshit within their own lives and in dealings with others, that its funny to watch them try to live in the real world. Shit keeps piling up and this family is placing all their hope in a beauty pageant where 10 year olds are dolled up as women. This is funny, so's the movie.
Little Miss Sunshine: ★★★1/2
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