Little Miss Sunshine

I was pleasantly surprised with this movie, I had heard a lot about it but never had enough interest to actually watch it.  Last night Dibbs and Taylor came over with the movie and I thought I would finally watch it.  Both of them fell asleep and I watched the entire movie by myself laughing and really starting to fall in love with the family.  The film does a really good job of making you feel as if you have gotten to know the characters throughout the movie.  I really think this is because of the boldness of watching their struggles.

Little Miss Sunshine is a movie about a flawed family taking little Olive to a beauty pageant far far away in California.  The whole family gets in the VW van and heads out for a fun heart warming ride to the pageant.  The family consist of a Father who is trying desperately to sell his motivational success plan, a mother who is stressed over her entire family's personal crisis, her brother, a gay out of work buisness man, the daughter whose dreams of being a beauty queen reach the sky, her brother who has taken a vow of silence before reaching his goal of being in the air force, and last but not least the fowl mouthed grandfather.  At the start of the movie you see all of these people in their own struggles of no success, depression and failure.  None of them really get along and they are looking for something of hope.  Which ends up being the pageant.  

I absoultely fell in love with Steve Carell's character and the relationship build between him and the son Paul Dano. Steve Carell through the whole movie made me laugh, and I really loved his Character.  The Grandfathers dialogue could have been different but to see how much he loved Olive was really great.  You start the movie really not liking anyone but as the movie goes on you see everyone for who they really are.  The best one that this relates to is the Father, through the movie he says ridiculous things to Olive, as an example they are eating at a restraunt on the way to the pageant and they get on the discussion of ice cream and how it makes you fat, he goes on to say, ''Don't eat to much ice cream or you will get fat and I don't think pageant winners are fat'', along those lines.  He spits out little comments like that through out.  But what makes you end up loving him for is the lengths he goes to to get his daughter to this pageant.  

I loved this movie not because it was down right hiliarious but because it showed heart in flaws that every American home has.  And how through all of that family is number one and you are always there for your family.  It was very well made and the cinimatography was amazing.  The acting was outstanding and each character brings out comedy that blends amazing with the rest of the cast, not to mention those characters getting in the hiliairious situations they get into.