"America is Beautiful" But "Why Everybody is Upset" ?!

Rating: Null/10 (9 July 2010)

I don't think it's a great movie, but it has some interesting points. The bunch of characters is mostly expressive. They all live a depression. Their dreams aren't achieved. And their connections with each other are nearly dead. It doesn't want to be a big picture for a nation. It just wants to put all the losers in one mission for winning a small dream. And the greater good that happens is by gathering them really with each other, because love is the best winning at all. So, what's wrong about it?
It's a road movie, with nice sad characters, and kind of good black comedy. It has lovely moments and innocent goal. What it needed to have was more than the superficial dealing sometimes. For instance, the wife looks overlooked?! I didn't catch on clearly what were her problems with her husband. Plus I couldn't understand Grandpa, despite how dazzling Alan Arkin's performance always is. It needed also coherent endings for the storylines, and sure anyone but Greg Kinnear; the guy was the lowest player, with other actor that could've been more deep and memorable role.
I loved the sequence of the beauty contest; the monstrous kids' look said a lot about a society that masters creating monsters. The way how the car was running, tells symbolically about wrecked life that must be caught anyway, most importantly with the family. Look at the last dance; where love is the actual and eternal beauty queen. Toni Collette is a ruby, she's one of the best actresses, how can any artiest be more believable?, just her role's writing bugged me. As you see, the movie has much potential, but did that script grasp and utilize them all?!
Haven't you noticed that the movie's characters have nothing to do with spirituality, where drugs and perversion are loose, or how their pop culture is destructive; so the kid is crazy about outward beauty, or how this is inwardly deformed society altogether? Well, you might notice, but not watch and feel. Because (Little Miss Sunshine) is a feel good movie after all. So the question of my title, which's 2 separate lines from the movie's dialogue, wasn't answered, or maybe was intended to be answered. Yes, being about a reunion of ugly upset American family; can be an enough social commentary about its era. Reading, and not exploring, can be useful sometimes. The thing about this movie is that it reads, without that intention to explore. So it isn't a great movie in my book. A light one about great matters maybe.