Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine

In several ways, this should have been a movie I hated. Mainly because a large part of the plot is almost all of the characters' lives getting worse. Not just in small ways, either. And at the end of the movie, many of the big problems are still there. But the thing is, it's not. Man, that's a horrible sentence. One of my friends described the movie as "cute", which really doesn't seem like an apt word at all. And it's not "hilarious" or any of the overused comedy marketing words. The movie is funny, there were a bunch of times when I laughed out loud, but that doesn't feel like the point of it. The best word I can come up with I guess is "nice." And it's very good.

It reminds me a bit of the Addams Family movies, I think for the family interaction. The family in Little Miss Sunshine is a lot more realistic, and more fractured, but there's the same feel of things there for me. It also feels kind of like a Flaming Lips song, though that's probably influenced by the fact they used a Flaming Lips song in the trailer. But the blend of emotions and stuff in songs like "Do You Realize?" matches fairly well for the movie.

This has been another episode of Inarticulate Stretched Metaphors Movie Reviews. We'll be here all week, tip your waitress. And it's a good movie. Rent it if you get a chance.