comment #1

Mark says ...

Yes, hooray for Little Miss Overrated. Underlined jokes; character intentions and motives spelled out with a SpeakNSpell; not to mention absolutely nothing to discuss after watching, except for 'wasn't it cute when...'

An amusing 100 minutes, but the praise for this flick says something about the turkey that is the 2006 film slate.

comment #2

Krazy Eyes says ...

Sometimes just being wildly entertaining is good enough to carry an entire film. Worked for me.

comment #3

sardine says ...

did NOT WORK for me.

comment #4

Mark says ...

Wildly entertaining seems a bit hyperbole. Kinnear's chubby legs stopped being funny pretty early on. Many gags seemed right out of Vacation without Beverly D'Angelos bare teetons to liven up the slow stretches. There he goes on some kid's moped; there goes the horn; there goes the correct highway exit; there goes the door. All they needed was to be mildly insensitive about some relative's dead corpse for it to be a complete retread....oh, wait…they did that too.

I'll give it up for the climax. Very pleasing and works on a couple levels.

comment #5

Josh Massey says ...

I agree that the success of "Little Miss Sunshine" speaks to the utter lack of quality elsewhere. It's a good lil' flick, but GOOD is all it is.

comment #6

Hallick says ...

"Little Miss Sunshine" is a great medium-sized (not little) movie that is going to be one of those films I'll always stop to watch to the end if I stumble into it on TV. Steve Carell does some beautiful work that merits the Oscar talk, especially in the beginning where he's perfectly raw and shattered.

Granted, there's two stupid choices that almost sabotage the lot near the end involving Arkin's character (so typical, I was praying hard they'd realize that) and the mute son (are you kidding me? they wanted to throw that zinger in now?) but the rest recovered quite well.

Thank God for this movie, because otherwise, my summer was one effing disappointment after another.