A bit dated and a bit questionable

Rating: 6/10 (25 January 2016)

Looks like I am again going to be one of the minority voices on what is considered to be good and award winning movie. I am watching this on the heels of another road trip comedy "Were the Millers" In the latter I laughed my ass off, and in the former I barely opened my mouth to let out a laugh. I was underwhelmed with the entire movie, the situations and generally the character.
Perhaps this movie was one of the original road trip movies with a dysfunctional family, but is jaded now and there are far better , funnier and more entertaining ones in this genre. The comic situations in this movie are well not really all that funny, unless you think smuggling a dead body of their dirty grandpa whose killed himself from a cocaine overdose out of hospital window is funny; or a 8 year old doing a striptease at a beauty pageant for children is funny; or a gay man whose been fired from a prestigious academic job and tries to commit suicide is funny; or a self-help business man going bankrupt is funny; or self-imposed mute teenager finding out he is colour blind and cannot ever fulfil his dream of flying a plane.. is funny?
I did not find it funny but disturbing and a rather sad commentary on the American family. Every character in this movie is a loser; dirty grandpa who snorts cocaine, reads porn mags and speaks in vulgar sexual language in front of his grandchildren; most disturbing is he teaches his granddaughter(little miss sunshine) a striptease routine(this movie got awards) There is the gay brother in law whose tried to commit suicide because his man left him and he got fired from a top post, but rather than making him humble, it makes him arrogant and he repeatedly tells us "I am very qualified you know" There is the teenage son, who is a misanthrope and does not talk to people except through writing, and he throws a hissy fit when he learns he is colour blind and starts talking again; there is an arrogant control-freak father, who thinks there are only winners and losers in life and pushes his expectations on his children; there is an ignorant mother who is divorced and quarrelsome; and finally there is little miss sun shine herself, whose been deluded into thinking she is the most beautiful and talented girl in the world, and she's not.
Finally, what is the message of the movie? Is the message that we should not push ourselves and accept ourselves as we are? Is it children should be children and not groomed for beauty contents? Is it that though we maybe all losers, we should keep together as a family? Or is about the joy in loss?
There are a few tender moments and genuine family bonding moments so I am going to be generous and give it a 6. It is not a bad movie, just dated and bit questionable.