Nauseating

Rating: 1/10 (3 February 2007)

A wannabe Napoleon Dynamite indie that is neither funny, nor intelligent, nor entertaining.
The movie is centered around a puerile plot of an exaggerated dysfunctional family (*yawn*) that is incapable of communicating with each other (almost literally), despite being led by a motivational speaker that is trying to make it big, but is nonetheless an uptight, pompous prig (replacing the prototypical religious zealot).
Little Miss Sunshine lacks any substantive dialogue or character development. Not one of the cardboard characters is likable, including the stupid, almost retarded little girl, the rebellious Nietzsche fan that wears a sickenly offensive shirt about Jesus, and the creepy, porn-addicted grandfather that was probably abusing the girl. The mother, meanwhile, displays absolutely no personality throughout the film and is as dull as a doorknob.
Yet the movie tries to reach its denouement by having the group perform a rude and obnoxious act in a child beauty pageant (of all things!) where one cannot help but think of the seedy world of poor Jon Benet Ramsey. What was that all about? Don't even attempt to analyze this.
As a matter of fact, not one of the characters in this movie would any sane person want to spend more than 5 minutes with - so why watch this for 100 minutes? Easily one of the worst films I've seen in the last 10 years.
Zero stars. Absolute nauseating rubbish.