Outrageously Over Rated

Rating: 5/10 (24 January 2007)

And now all the commercials with the Best Pix tag line will be harassing the airwaves until the Oscars.
I was looking forward to watching "Little Miss Sunshine" because there's nothing like a great movie. Kinda like when you're sucked into a great book. And from all the hype I was confident this flick would deliver. Yet I was wrong.
It's one of those movies that starts strong but loses a lot of air after the first half hour. Much of the humor was contrived. Many times to the level of a TV sitcom. "Three's Company" comes to mind. You know, like when Jack's helping Janet change a light bulb and Chrissy's in the other room listening to their conversation and thinking all sorts of things. Story elements were predictable where a couple of situations were inspired by other films and outright lifted from them as well. Not necessarily bad, but contrived.
I know, I used that word about thirty words ago. Yet that's how I felt watching "Little Miss Sunshine." And this surprised me because of the word of mouth this movie was receiving. After viewing it and observing all the praise it's getting on TV, I feel like I live in another country.