Sounds charming.
WHat makes it REALLY reprehensible is that ther eis a Bill Maher love scene in it.
Thanks for the warning. It's now on my must miss list.
Two people told me to see this saying it wasn't what I thought it would be. This article uncannily touches on every single thing I was afraid of. PC Hollywood is so predictable.
"Little Miss Sunshine" is a very funny movie and this review is the thing that is horrible here... Something must have crawled up Navlog's badside before he saw it...
Go see the movie... it's funny and farcical...
Uh, I saw this movie. Your "review" bears little resemblance to the picture I sat through.
Granted, I did not like the language or the crude sexual remarks made by the grandfather, but alot of the movie was not far removed from real life. And at times very funny.
Well, I saw this movie and thought it was very funny! So funny, that I'm taking the family to see it again. It is very twisted, the characters don't have any redeeming qualities, yet they all pull together in the end.
I can't say too much without giving it away, but it does shine a kleig light on the ridiculousness of beauty pagents for children.
If you don't like it don't watch it. I just watched "Pride and Prejudice" made in England in 2005. Sensational! And "Pushing Tin". Wonderful cast and an adult theme. Could have been great but it descended into melodrama and silly philosphy and the redemptive powers of backwash.
There have always been terrible movies, terrible stories, terrible people. But you have the power of free will. Use it.
But Time magazine says, "American dysfunction! Is there anything more comically inspiring than a hard, hilarious look at the reality behind this ruling cliché? For all the exaggerations in Michael Arndt's script...it comes closer to the truth about the way people really live--on the edge of fantasy-driven desperation--than our sanctimonies permit us to think."
How can it be bad?
Much more frightening than the making and touting of this 'film' is the truth that so many American young will pay to see it and think it's funny and spot on! God how I hate liberalism and the degeneracy it has accomplished already to my nation. I've seen first hand, with two stepkids, what dgeenrate thinking it can accomplish. Thankfully, I no longer have to endure the blind stupidity of that too close liberalism and leftist ideology. But my nation is dying from the infection.
Hollywood (and its emulators) are now operating under the proposition that all idiots are created equal and the entertainment of the idiots, by the idiots and for the idiots shall not perish from this earth.
For someone who points out that the movie gets an airplane detail wrong, this writer needs to learn a little about the Academy and Hollywood he criticizes. There is no "Best Production" Oscar, hasn't been in ages.
Sounds like an update of "American Beauty".
After the last 2 movies rented I have decided life would be better without the crap hollywood is producing.
1 or 2 movies a year are good imo and I will wait for them.
'Bout time! I've been waiting for a good kid's show to hit the theatres.
I have a rule of thumb for abysmally bad movies. It is the late-middle-aged Jewish comedian-who-was-never-funny rule.
Alan Arkin and Albert Brooks are at the head of the list. Men who continually look like they are in pain with intestinal problems and whine, nag, or complain with every line of dialogue.
For the most part, Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon were that way, too. And while you might laugh at their torments in the movies, you are left with the feeling of "what a miserable person, living a miserable life."
It's funny,I was just checking out James Bowman's site (his movie reviews). He's famously difficult, and to get a 'worth seeing' two stars is about impossible (5-10 films a year.)
www.jamesbowman.net .
All his old annual lists did not dissapoint, but recently I've found he's totally swayed by sexual content: Intolerable Cruelty (CZJones) etc. and also this 'little miss' one.
I'm so happy you posted this, I actually was going to make this one of my (bi-annual?) film treats.
Did you see: 'Va, Vie, Devinir'? If it's translated into English it's a MUST.
I'll bet Madonna takes little Lourdes to this flick! Such wit and au courant culture!
Oh wait....Madonna doesn't allow her children to view flicks or television...too much trash..
Of course, the rest of the entertainers wouldn't allow their children to view trash. ~They just want yours to view trash...and pay for it.
Not a Hollywood movie by the way. It was an independent film that has been picked up by Fox Searchlight for distribution. Completely different animal.