Okay

Rating: 6/10 (7 June 2007)

Little Miss Sunshine is pretty funny, mildly irreverent and well acted. It's up there with Sideways and the Squid & the Whale as one of the slightly disappointing films of the last few years with a target demographic that also happens to be the demographic that provides our critics and prize givers. So if you're liberally educated, middle-aged, middle-class, middlebrow and know the difference between a Pinot and a Merlot, you'll probably give this film the couple of bonus points that raise from the 6 it deserves to the 8 it gets.
It's an okay film although pretty forgettable. And it left me feeling older and more conservative than I should because I found the competition scenes a little disturbing.