Yesterday I was going to try and organize a movie with some friends, but hey fate choose to disable all the phones in my house and my sister stole my cell phone. Heh, I was stuck in the house for like 5 hours. Anyhow after waiting and doing pretty much nothing, my mom and I decided to go watch a Comedy/Drama.

Little Miss Sunshine was given a B+ by Yahoo movies, and I have to say in overall terms it was a decent movie. However, I’m usually not the type of person who likes “cute” movies so I’ll give it a B. Let’s start with a short intro. It’s about a family with big troubles, a wild grandpa who likes reading porn, a “winner” dad, a tired mom, a “I-almost-tried-commited-suicide” brother (Frank), a “I-hate-the-world” son, and a innocent daughter. In short, the family is having troubles, and you get the feeling that everything isn’t alright. Soon, you hear about how the daughter (Olive) is being entered for a beauty pagent in California and everything goes to hell from there.

The “win it all or go home” dad pushes the broken family to drive to California, as they don’t have the money to fly, in a old yellow VW van. Along the way, the clutch breaks and they have to push the van to get it moving. Then, grandpa dies from his heiron and the son discovers that he is colorblind ruining his hopes of becoming a airplane pilot. They end up putting grandpa in the trunk as they discover the hospital won’t let them go without putting the corpse in a funeral home. After breaking several laws they end up in the parking lot of the Little Miss Sunshine pagent and the climax of the movie begins.

The son rediscovers his passion along with Frank, who also happens to be gay which let in part to why he tried to commit suicide, to become a airplane pilot no matter what. “Fuck everything else,” he says. The one quote I enjoyed the most was, “If you slept till you were 18, you would have missed all the suffering. That is what makes you who you are,” said by Frank. Meantime, in the pagent the dance routine of Olive turns out to be almost a “strip-tease” and horrifies the crowd and they eventually get thrown out but only after the whole family re-unites onstage and dances. This signifies that the old wounds had healed and everyone accomplished their goals and learned something. The movie ends with the yellow VW van driving down the highway back to Alburquerque.

Again, it was really quite funny at times and the whole movie theather was laughing, but to me it was just another funny drama. That was my two cents, feel free to add your thoughts by commenting on this review!