A true beauty, inside and out

Rating: 9/10 (12 March 2008)

Breathtakingly heartfelt, beautiful, poignant and also, breathtakingly FUNNY - what I mean is I frigging' hosed myself so much at times that I couldn't breathe. You'd expect some of these things to happen to Clark W. Griswold and his dysfunctional family, so ridiculous like the car door falling off  THAT kind of funny. And yet it manages to avoid the dreaded slapstick sticker because it's always believable here. Except maybe Sideways, I can't think of any other recent movie to possess all of these qualities. Based on that, and the fact that that Rick James' Superfreak aided in igniting a volcano of almost every emotion (barring 'fear', although his music video made up for that;)) I've ever experienced in a movie in the small space of 5 minutes, I'd say that Little Miss Sunshine is the best movie I've seen in the last 5 years at least. Kudos to everyone involved.