Went to the movies last night with LP (my pick this time). We went to see Little Miss Sunshine, which turned out to be a fantastic and fun movie. I laughed a lot which was just what the doctor ordered.
It was a quirky and amusing movie about a rather dysfunctional family who hit the road to get the youngest member of the family to the Little Miss Sunshine Pageant in California. Along the way they have several mishaps which would be reminiscent of a National Lampoon film, were they not so ‘real’ somehow. The characters and the film had a solid cast (Greg Kinnear, Tony Collette, Steve Carrell, Aaron Arkin and introduced us to the precocious Abigail Breslin) all of whom were great, and you could warm to them and understand them, while at the same time want to slap them around the head! I particularly love the Grandpa, who was a bit of a dirty old man was definitely in that “I don’t give a shit what people think anymore” stage of his life.
I especially enjoyed the statement at the end of the film about just how much adult-like behaviour is suitable at a kids beauty pageant, and how much is just going too far. Never liked them much – and especially not since seeing this picture on Dave2’s blog over at Blogography (http://www.blogography.com/index.html ) Dave calls them Dead Hooker Babies, which seems fair enough when you see this image. Don’t know if it’s just Sepos or what – but they are doing strange things to sexualize their children with these beauty contests.
