Austin Movie Show review -- genius!!!

Rating: 10/10 (21 August 2006)

Thank God for "Little Miss Sunshine" because I hadn't seen a truly superb comedy since "Thank You For Smoking," and after watching "World Trade Center" I was in dire need of comedy.
Every member of this family is miserable and self-absorbed (except for the irresistibly adorable young Olive, played by future-super-star Abigail Breslin), but I loved them all! Alan Arkin is the funniest and coolest coke-sniffing grandpa ever! He tells his grandson, Dwayne, that his only advice to him is to "F**k a lot of women, not just one."
"Little Miss Sunshine" is a road trip film where the entire family drives across the Southwest so that little Olive can compete in the Little Miss Sunshine Beauty Pageant. Olive's song-and-dance performance at the beauty pageant is one of the single funniest (and brilliantly unexpected) scenes ever captured on film. My vote for Best Supporting Actress at next year's Oscars already goes to Abigail Breslin, and you can tell the Academy I said so.