Was I supposed to laugh?

Rating: 7/10 (20 January 2007)

Good idea, bad movie. Far from being a comedy. The lines were dreadful, the acting could have been much more better, the plot was insignificant and there was nothing to laugh about. People got used to laugh about silly things, American simple jokes, but THIS IS NOT HUMOUR. Olive is naive, the silly girl who wishes to be a model, like other one hundred thousand girls from America, and this is indeed a funny thing to laugh about: Americans make fun of themselves. Olive's family is mediocre, her parents can't come to an agreement and they argue in her presence (the ice-cream scene), making her desolated and confused. There is another funny thing: Olive's family should have known that she would have had slight chances to win the beauty contest because she was FAT and not so beautiful. And what was with all the striptease performance? Her parents weren't even curious to see what will she do at the talent competition? No! They didn't! They left that part to that dirty old grandfather to teach her, so of course what she did had to be something pervert and unapproriate for the Little Miss Sunshine!