Little Miss Sunshine!

Do you remember Sideways from two years ago? A comedy about ordinary people with no boring Hollywood clich� crap. Well, Little Miss Sunshine is just as good, if not better. It won’t make you laugh out loud. But it will make you smile and feel good. Its funny but dark jokes and situations will make you wonder.

The story is simple and clean. A family trip to Little Miss Sunshine talent competition. Dad is the driver because Mom can’t drive. He wants his little daughter to win because “she is a winner and not a loser.” Grandpa has to come too. He is the mentor, after all and as he says himself, he can do and say whatever he wants because he “still got Nazi bullets in his ass.” And finally the Boy and his uncle who can’t stay because mom says so!

So there you have it. A perfect family road trip. A talent contest obssessed dad. A caring mom. A cute little girl. A weird teenage boy who doesn’t talk. A heroin addict foul-mouthed grandpa and a suicidal gay uncle with his bandaged wrists! Put them in an old Volkswagen Type two van. Go grab yourself a hot cup of coffee and enjoy the second half of the film. The half in which these characters argue, get on their knees and beg to strangers, break their silence vows after nine months and even die.

Little Miss Sunshine is a beautiful and thoroughly enjoyable movie. It is right in between Forrest Gump and Am�lie on my top three list! Go watch it!