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A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus. Review: Original, Outrageous, Funny and totally Enjoyable! - This is not a great film, but is definitely worth the time for some enjoyable eccentric behavior from a brilliant cast. Ms. Breslin's and Mr. Arkin's Oscar noms speak for themselves, but Kinnear, Carrell, Paul Dano and, especially, Toni Collette are so in touch with their material that Ms. Breslin's only task is to be reactionary, which she does beautifully and naturally. I HATE bad kid-actors and she won me over. There's fire and wisdom behind those beautiful, spectacled eyes, and when she lets loose at the end, you simply HAVE to cheer. I'm glad it won the Ensemble Cast award at SAG, though I doubt it will win Best Picture at the Oscars, if only because the directors weren't nominated. The clever screenplay of Michael Arndt may be its only chance of a win. Dysfunctional families have inundated our films lately, but I can't think of one recently that had me believing that such families could be as entertaining. Indeed, the plot is outrageous, pitting one obstacle against another, but the ending is satisfying and appropriate. "Little Miss Sunshine" is a small, easy to watch film, and though some previous reviewers were offended by the foul language, I thought it was representational of the characters' state at the moment. Yes, people do talk like that a lot. Lighten up, folks... I had a good time, and laughed a lot. I also felt for the characters, something I can't always say. Due to its popularity, it almost screams for a sequel. I hope they leave it alone, and let it stand by itself. Further interventions into the lives of these characters might be overkill. UPDATE: I love Eddie Murphy, but I'm glad Arkin won the Oscar. His foul-mouthed outrage is remembered more than the sweet moments he had with Ms. Breslin. Review: Humorous movie, to add to your collection. - Great movie, good story, made my husband and myself smile.
| ASIN | B001KEW0U8 |
| Actors | Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette |
| Best Sellers Rank | #102,481 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #1,556 in Kids & Family Blu-ray Discs |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (6,908) |
| Director | Jonathan Dayton |
| Dubbed: | Spanish |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Language | English (Dolby TrueHD), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1) |
| MPAA rating | Unrated (Not Rated) |
| Media Format | NTSC |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Package Dimensions | 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.88 ounces |
| Subtitles: | English, French, Spanish |
R**A
Original, Outrageous, Funny and totally Enjoyable!
This is not a great film, but is definitely worth the time for some enjoyable eccentric behavior from a brilliant cast. Ms. Breslin's and Mr. Arkin's Oscar noms speak for themselves, but Kinnear, Carrell, Paul Dano and, especially, Toni Collette are so in touch with their material that Ms. Breslin's only task is to be reactionary, which she does beautifully and naturally. I HATE bad kid-actors and she won me over. There's fire and wisdom behind those beautiful, spectacled eyes, and when she lets loose at the end, you simply HAVE to cheer. I'm glad it won the Ensemble Cast award at SAG, though I doubt it will win Best Picture at the Oscars, if only because the directors weren't nominated. The clever screenplay of Michael Arndt may be its only chance of a win. Dysfunctional families have inundated our films lately, but I can't think of one recently that had me believing that such families could be as entertaining. Indeed, the plot is outrageous, pitting one obstacle against another, but the ending is satisfying and appropriate. "Little Miss Sunshine" is a small, easy to watch film, and though some previous reviewers were offended by the foul language, I thought it was representational of the characters' state at the moment. Yes, people do talk like that a lot. Lighten up, folks... I had a good time, and laughed a lot. I also felt for the characters, something I can't always say. Due to its popularity, it almost screams for a sequel. I hope they leave it alone, and let it stand by itself. Further interventions into the lives of these characters might be overkill. UPDATE: I love Eddie Murphy, but I'm glad Arkin won the Oscar. His foul-mouthed outrage is remembered more than the sweet moments he had with Ms. Breslin.
G**.
Humorous movie, to add to your collection.
Great movie, good story, made my husband and myself smile.
D**K
Very funny movie!
Cute movie! Worth the rental!!! Very funny
G**G
absurd and funny
A family trip in an old-style VW van to a children's beauty contest, with lots of mishaps, both along the way and at the contest. An absurd, funny, and generally harmless plot.
S**L
It's the ride that counts, not the destination.
The timing of the film's theatrical release with the latest bombshell about the JonBenet case is practically uncanny. However, as a viewing of the DVD will plainly show, the satiric critique of the Little Miss Living Doll beauty pageants is relatively contained, occupying the last 20 minutes, though the point is unmistakable. The ultra polished, talented contestants against whom the film's slightly pudgy and awkward hero, Olive, competes aren't so much little girls as miniature Las Vegas show queens, coached in seductive eye use and sexy posturing. How ironic that the manager of the beauty contest is scandalized by Olive, whose "improper" strip tease, taught to her by her grandfather, doesn't contain a hint of seduction or sexuality. Olive's quest to be a beauty queen appears to align her with other members of her family. Her obtuse, self-programmed father, who preaches #1 or none, wants to be a published authority on positive thinking and winning. Her suicidal, sensitive, gay uncle wants to be recognized as the world's #1 Proust scholar. Her introverted, tormented and driven brother wants to be a jet pilot in his own private Nietzschean world. Toni Collette as the mom, on the other hand, is the model of tolerance and forebearance, a supportive "gamer" whose ability to eat ice cream without guilt fortunately has a more profound effect on her daughter than the father's insistence on winning at any cost. By the end of the film, our family of losers ultimately emerge as true winners. Alan Arkin, as the profane patriarchal grandfather, provides the film's enduring wisdom, counseling both his son and granddaughter (Abigail Breslin deserves a supporting actress award for this scene alone) before his death about the importance of simply living life to the fullest. A real winner, he tells the family, is someone "who's not so afraid of losing he's afraid to try." It's not the destination that matters; it's the trip. And the film literally offers one hell of a ride. Apart from some raw language, this is a family film recommended for all dysfunctional families who enjoy crying as much as laughing together. At the same time, thanks to inventive scripting and directing, this little gem transcends the "family film" genre, providing moments of subtlety, nuance, and genuine "life." The very different, often ambivalent, responses of various members of the pageant to Olive's performance suggest that not everyone buys into the Little Miss America mentality. And again the mom is the one member of the family who has sufficient confidence in her daughter to sense that the men's concern about Olive's being "laughed at" speaks less about Olive than their own childish fears and self-consciousness. Finally, by making Grandpa the unlikely voice of wisdom, the film takes on universal, life-affirming resonance. "Little Miss Sunshine" counters our tendency to see living merely as a "means" to some distant end or goal. Often the means needs no justification: being fully alive in the here and now can be the biggest prize of all. Count this one is an all-around winner--an entertaining, formulaic movie with enough twists, vitality, heart, and thought to almost atone for all of those long, dull "Talledega Nights" which moviegoers increasingly have to endure as part of their desensitizing training.
L**O
This is one of the best comedy-dramas I have seen in my life. A perfect cast and a great road trip.. This movie will put a wide smile to your face.. Don't miss. 5 Stars
C**T
Two very good films. I particularly love Little Miss Sunshine. Great script and fantastic performances from an impressive list of great actors.
I**Y
Little Miss Sunshine is an appropriate title for a film which burst onto the independent cinema screens like a surprising, welcome and thoroughly enjoyable slice of art-house comedy. This is a tightly written, well scripted, excellently acted and hilarious film, at turns darkly and self-assuredly black and then riotously slapstick and self deprecating. The storyline centres around the trans-American adventures of a less than ordinary American family. With Transamerica, the unconventional road trip is obviously the comedy medium of choice in the independent cinema world. The film's very own Little Miss Sunshine is the gloriously unglamorous, vivacious and joyous Olive (Abigail Breslin), the youngest of the family. She wins the opportunity to attend the final of the Little Miss Sunshine pageant after the state winner is disqualified for diet pill abuse. This should send warning bells for the type of contest she is entering. This is the very dark, very disturbing world of American beauty contest. Eventually the truth is revealed, but first the family have to get there. This involves the suffering rock-like figure of the mom Sheyl (Toni Collette) and the can-do go getting, but ultimately failing author of a self-help book and seminar, the nine steps, dad Richard (Greg Kinnear) eschewing air travel for cost reasons, and loading the family in to a VW camper van. Along for the ride, and in perfect comedy unison, is the drug snorting, care-home evicted grandfather (whose eventual death provides the central slapstick, and whose last gift is a dance routine for the talent segment of the show that has to be seen to be believed), the mute, difficult teenage brother, who hates the world, his family and loves Nietzsche, and just wants to escape to flying school. Sheryl's brother is also brought, mostly because after a failed suicide attempt he can not be left alone. He provides much of the dry, darker humour that is very reminiscent of the best of the Royal Tennenbaums. He is a homosexual expert on Proust, who grates against the dad but eventually seems to come back around to enjoying life on the trip. The film is at once a wonderfully life-affirming slice of an atypical American family, and a refreshing change from the dysfunctional middle-class families that have obsessed Hollywood for the past decade. It is also a masterpiece of characterisation and casting. The characters are honed to comic perfection, and the casting of each actor and actress is a masterpiece for the roles. Of especial note and perfection is Breslin as Olive. To find a child actor so able to play this role without self consciousness or precocity makes her extremely endearing and an easy character to root for in the bizarre world of child beauty pageants. But each of the other main characters is also extremely well executed. The darkest elements of the film come in the portrayal of the pageants. They seem to suggest a sickness at the heart of middle America, where these children, none older than eight, are sprayed, preened, brushed and made up to be like miniature dolls. They wear their sickly smiles, their horribly suggestive outfits and are paraded in a pageant that features the oddly paedophilic compare and the horrendously competitive mothers. In short this is an extremely enjoyably film, and it would do it a massive disservice to simply label it as `feel good', but it does have this effect. Together with a brilliantly talented cast and a tight, wonderfully executed script this makes the surprise comedy hit of the year.
T**N
PROLOG: es gibt sie, die Filme, die einfach gemacht werden müssen. Die uns eine Welt, eine Familie, verschiedene Menschen, die zusammenleben, so oder so... mit einige Katastrophen und viel Herz zeigen. Und mit denen wir uns trotz der etwas gewöhnungsbedürftiger Art sogar identifizieren können. Meistens jedenfalls. Wir alle, naja, fast alle kennen eine Familie Hoover, sind ihr zum Teil etwas ähnlich. Das Leben könnte so schön vorprogrammiert sein, aber? Wer hat unser Programm geklaut? Auch der neue Computer wird uns keine Lösung bringen - wir sind nur Menschen. Und die im Film eben auch! ZU DEM INHALT: Richard Hoover (Greg Kinnear) ist ein Motivations - Coach, der eine, so glaubt er, perfekte Methode für die Gewinner entwickelt hat (kein Mensch will ein Verlierer sein!). In NEUN Schritten kann man schnell vom Loser zu einem Erfolgsmann/frau werden. Er glaubt fest daran, dass sein Buch ein Erfolg wird und ruft mehrmals am Tag seinen Verleger an. Seine Frau, Sheryl (Toni Collette) ist vor allem eine müde und fast ausgelaugte Hausfrau, Mutter, Schwester und Schwiegertochter. Mit zwei Kindern, dem Sohn (aus der früheren Beziehung), Dwayne (Paul Dano) und der Tochter Olive (Abigail Breslin,) hat sie genug Arbeit. Seit einiger Zeit lebt im Hause Hoover noch ihr Schwiegervater Edwin (Alan Arkin), der aus dem Altesheim rausgeflogen ist - er hat einfach zu viele Drogen genommen (und mit dem S*** hatte er auch noch zu tun gehabt, hm). Und als dann noch ihr Bruder, Frank Ginsburg (Steve Carell) einen Selbstmordversuch verübt, ist sie nur noch fertig. Sie muß ihn aus dem Krankenhaus holen und aufpassen, dass er am Leben bleibt. Zuhause bei den Hoover's kann, ganz normal nach alldem trotzdem eine besondere Stimmung, ein ungewöhnliches Bild beobachten. Dwayne spricht seit NEUN Monate kein Wort. Er ist um 15-16 Jahre jung, liebt Nietzsche (ob er ihn versteht, bleibt offen - vielleicht hat er einige Passagen von dem Philosophen zu ernst genommen); und möchte erst dann wieder sprechen, wenn man ihm erlaubt, dass er Pilot wird. Man wundert sich, wie leicht er mit einem Stift und Notizblock kommuniziert. Übung, eben. Und jetzt muß er mit seinem Onkel Frank aushalten - im selben Zimmer, weil seine Mutter Angst hat, Frank würde wieder was anstellen. Er hat zwar überlebt, aber seinen Job an der Universität hat er verloren. Und seine Sympathie, einen Studenten auch. Am Abend ist die Familie versammelt, die Mutter kann noch etwas Salat machen, sonst essen sie aus einem "Eimer" (anders kann man das nicht bezeichnen) Hähnchen, frittiert, nicht gerade DIE ultimative und gesundeste Kost. Olive, sieben Jahre hat einen großen Wunsch. Sie möchte noch einmal bei einem Schönheitswettbewerb dabei sein. Und gewinnen! Das Glück kommt unverhofft; als Zweite in New Mexico, darf sie nach Kalifornien, weil die Erste disqualifiziert wurde (warum auch immer). Der Weg ist nun FREI, wenn die Familie sie begleiten kann, oder wenn wenigstens eine/r mitkommt. Am besten ALLE! Die Laune ist für die Fahrt nicht so wichtig, es gibt größere Probleme. Die Familie rafft sich zusammen und es geht los. Der gelbe VW-Bus fährt und fährt. Die Fahrt ist eine harte Prüfung. Die Kupplung von dem Wagen ist - kaputt, so muß man den Wagen zuerst schieben und dann laufen, um ihn nicht zu "verpassen". Die Eltern schreien, es wird gestritten, die Schuldigen werden gesucht... Olive hört ihre Musik, Frank versucht mit Dwayne "zu sprechen", der Großvater hat sein Heroin zum Glück bei sich. Und als ihm Frank noch wunderschöne Zeitschriften kauft, die seine Augen erfreuen, ist wenigstens seine Welt in Ordnung. Doch die Familie wird noch viele Schläge ertragen müssen, bevor sie in Los Angeles ankommen. Sie werden den Großvater in einem komischen "Kleid" herumfahren. Dwayne erfährt, dass es sich nicht gelohnt hat zu schweigen - er ist farbenblind und kann sowieso nicht Pilot werden (oder?). Und Frank sieht, wie seine Liebe "seine Ideen" über Proust veröffentlich hat. Er hat ihn gleich zweimal verraten. Richard erfährt, dass sein Programm nichts besonderes ist. Alles verloren? Nein - denn Olive hat noch ihren Auftritt. Neben kleinen Prinzessinnen, die auf Lolita's machen, ist sie ein pummeligee Mädchen mit der Brille und glatten Haaren. Und nicht geschminkt - oh, schrecklich! Doch der Opa hat mit ihr geübt und was daraus geworden ist - es ist eine Wonne, das Mädchen zu sehen - und die Menschen um sie. Abigail Breslin, die Olive gespielt hat, war bei den Dreharbeiten 9 Jahre jung. Sie wurde für den Oscar nominiert (die Nebenrolle - vielleicht ist es besser, dass sie ihn nicht bekommen hat, Oscar und Kinder - keine gute Verbindung!). Sie spielt so gut, dass man nur hofft, sie würde ihr Talent behalten. Alan Arkin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano...eigentlich spielt jeder aus der "Hoover-Familie" perfekt. Ob sie nur spielen, fragt man sich, ob sie ihre Erinnerungen hineinbringen. Warum nicht? Wie geschrieben, ist Familie Hoover wirklich chaotisch, alles geht drum und dran. Man hat aus einer großen Portion Humor, aber auch Zynismus eine Geschichte gemacht, die uns alle betrifft. Wir freuen uns, dass wir nicht alles auf einmal erleben müssen. Ein Film, den man mehr als einmal sehen kann... 5 Sterne, oder etwas weniger - aber für die Selbstironie ist der letzte Stern berechtigt.
A**R
american way of life op zijn best steve carrrel mijn favoriete acteur ook zegt daar op gegeven moment iets heel frappants
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