Just....brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (27 July 2006)

I saw this film in a movie theatre in Times Square...hardly my first choice for viewing movies. But I will say that Little Miss Sunshine is so excellent, that you could screen the movie in Siberia or in a Wal Mart parking lot in Missouri... and the audience will be transfixed and fall in love.
So many indie movies are so quirky that they mean little to anyone other than the actual filmmaker. And other indie movies fall too much into the "it was a dramatic road trip but we are all so much happier now that we made it" category. Little Miss Sunshine, while quirky and dramatic, never treads these lines. Instead, what you find is a brilliant movie that makes you laugh, that makes your eyes tear, that makes you cringe and reminds you of your family in some shape or form.
If anything, it is a story about who we are, and who we often end stuck with.