Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine

This is up there with Thank You For Smoking as one of best comedies of the year. I won't give anything away but I found it very funny and touching as well. Ostensibly, it's about a family that travels by VW bus to California so the seven year-old daughter Olive can compete in the Little Miss Sunshine contest. There's a little bit of Vacation in it but it's really about how six characters, all freaks in their own ways, deal with each other and what life throws at them. The script is very tight, there's nothing extraneous in it, and the acting is superb. See it.