Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine
Add comment September 27th, 2006
Ok, first, I apologize for having been so lax in my reviews lately. It’s not that I haven’t seen any movies, just that I haven’t had the time to sit down and actually review them. I’m officially 6 reviews behind, but I’m skipping 2 and I can’t remember what one of them was (which is why I should not take a four-week hiatus from this endeavor. Let’s start with the oldest.
Little Miss Sunshine. What a FABULOUS movie! Again, I took the 12 (now 13) year old Spawn to see it and this was a vastly different R-rated movie than the last one (SOAP).
It’s a family-oriented movie with some rather mature themes. Homosexuality, body image, death, financial struggles - to be honest, there’s probably something in this movie that just about everyone will relate to on some level or another. The interpersonal familial relationships are incredibly well-developed and you can see how the individual bonds between each pairing affects the overall functionality of the family as a whole.
It’s both heart-breaking and heart-warming, as well as laugh-out-loud funny. While I doubt there are many people who would get *every* joke, there’s something in it for everyone and with the social commentary of the child beauty pageant scenes (and the climax of Olive’s competition), it makes a wonderful political/social statement without actually taking the movie to a political level.
Bottom line on this movie was that it was just plain funny with something for everyone - everyone. Go see it. Just go.