A dysfunctional family heads out together in an old VW bus trip to take their daughter to a beauty pageant.

Rating: 9/10 (9 September 2006)

I'm not going to try and tell you everything that has already been said. I'm just going to say that I love going to movies for the entertainment value and to get a break from my everyday routine. I usually decide if a movie was worth my dollars or that I should have waited for it to come out in the video stores.
Well, this movie was worth the money and more. I never once looked at my watch and I was thoroughly entertained from beginning to end. I have never heard the kind of laughter from the theatre audience that I heard during this movie. In the emo scenes you could have heard a pin drop. I don't even recall anyone leaving the very packed theatre to go to the bathroom. When we were getting in the car to go home after the movie, we could still hear people laughing all around us in the parking lot as they exited the theatre.
It's not a children's movie even though it's about a child. The innuendos and sarcasm would be lost on them not to mention the grandfather's foul language but it worked in the film.
I will be seeing it again with my grown daughters this week. I'm looking forward to it.