one of my all-time faves

Rating: 10/10 (5 June 2008)

I watched this again last night, having seen it first in the theater when it first came out (it's SO fun to laugh your guts out with everyone else in a packed house), and having read a draft of the screenplay on Simply Scripts. Pure genius, on every level.
The member who posted his/her theory of how the final act offers a critique of baby beauty pageants--sorry, forget the name--really has a great reading, I think. I'd recognized how all you have to do is show what actually happens at these sick events to make fun of and criticize them. But the poster makes the smarter point that Olive's routine is more similar than different from those of her fellow competitors; it's a comic exaggeration of what these little contestants are called on to do at these things.
I think Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear are amazing in every movie they make.