Absolutely brilliant

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Little miss sunshine is a dramatic comedy created in 2006 by Jonhatan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The movie was shot in the USA. This characters are very sweet and funny but the family is dysfunctional. The little girl called Olive is very cute because she has big glasses and she looks innocent. The grand father takes drugs and Dwayne, Olive's brothert has made a vow of silence because he wants to join the flight academy. We don't recommend this film because it is boring and the scenes are often repeated.

Little miss sunshine is a dramatic comedy created in 2006 by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. An amazing little girl called Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin), thinks she can become « Little Miss Sunshine » a national beauty contest. Her brother, Dwayne (Paul Dano), has taken a vow of silence until he's accepted by the Air Force Academy. The father Richard (Greg Kinnear) is a motivational speaker explaining « Nine steps to success » , his wife Sheryl (Toni Colette) who has a suicidal brother Franck (Steve Carell) . And the grandpa (Alan Arkin) is a drug addict. Crammed in the rusted Volkswagen bus, the family, travel until the California for participate a beauty contest during 3 days. This is a beautiful movie, with a funny and sweet characters, with a lot of unexpected events. We recommend !

Any other year and I don't think this film gets nominated for a Best Picture award. Heck, a couple that were bypassed by "Little Miss Sunshine" at the 2007 Academy Awards were "The Last King of Scotland" and "Blood Diamond". So right there I have to reassess my first comment and say that I don't know how this picture got nominated in any case. The idea stunned me a decade ago and still stuns me today.That's not to say the picture isn't entertaining. I liked it well enough, although making it a lot more family friendly would have required Alan Arkin's Grandpa to clean things up in the language department. I know what the film makers were trying to do with his character but it seemed off-putting to me. At least Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin) got to wear the headphones for part of his routine to take some of the edge off, at least for her.So whether it was intended or not, the picture did make a pretty good point of how vapid these beauty contests are for pre-teenage girls. Every one of them besides Olive looked like they were made from plastic with the phony smiles and strutting mannerisms to go with the outfits and the hair-dos. The spray-on tan kid was a bonus. That's why it was so great when Olive went into her dance routine to blow away any pretense of professionalism for the hideous parents who preen their kids at such an early age to be Miss Perfect. I guess you can tell I'm not a fan of the whole concept.Good work here by a nice ensemble cast headed by Greg Kinnear, the motivational speaker who can't land a gig, and his dysfunctional family that actually gets things right every once in a while. The scene of Olive getting her brother (Paul Dano) to come out of his self imposed shell was particularly touching. And there were some good life lessons and revealing insights along the way that one might take heed of. Like sarcasm is the refuge of losers, high school makes for one's prime suffering years, and if you wanna fly, you'll find a way to fly. Some of those don't even require all nine steps.

If you want to laugh this is for you. If you want to cry this is for you. If you want to feel good this is the movie for you.Narrative has plethora of different characters revolving around one central character(Little miss). All the different characters are coming from various perspectives and are at different stages of life. For some life turned out to be difficult, treacherous, for some it was a string of missed opportunities, some believe they lost at it because they didn't play hard and well just some don't give a f***. Our protagonist is presented with all different point of views and in the end it's these people who are in for a surprise.The message of the movie is about accepting who are and be happy about it. The beauty contests that have world has created for various reasons don't make any sense. Nobody is in competition with anyone else. As everyone's story is different and all are going in different directions. So it's useless to compare.Just do whatever you want to do and give your best shot. Don't get bogged down by societal pressure or try to fit in any definition of beautiful or successful someone else has created for you.For even if you lose, you are not a loser, You are Little miss Sunshine. Dance.