One of the greatest films ever made

Rating: 9/10 (7 March 2010)

Let me start by saying i LOVED this movie. The movie is about an odd and dysfunctional family. Their son(Paul Dano) has given up speech and wants to be a pilot, their father(Greg Kinear) is an unsuccessful motivational speaker, their mother(Toni Collette) is a housewife, and their daughter(Abigail Breslin) is an adorable yet chubby girl who is accepted into a beauty pageant. This family is living with their perverted grandfather(Alan Arkin) and their suicidal gay uncle(Steve Carell). They go on a long road trip in their VW Bus and every moment is either funny, moving, or sad. Every event that occurs on the trip helps this family come together and solve each of their problems. The ending at the pageant is hilarious and is like giving beauty pageants the finger. This movie is strange, funny, and awkward. It is a movie that just reminds you how great life is and that sometimes you got to move on and forget yourself for a second.