Rays Of Sunshine!

Rating: 8/10 (24 September 2006)

What the best thing to do if your family is a financial and personal crisis? Take a road Trip Of course; well that's what the Hoover Family did. Richard Hoover is unemployed and is trying to make his idea of the "10 steps to becoming a winner" Go global. Sheryl Hoover is a housewife and spends all her time trying to make her kids happy. Dwayne Hoover is there son, and has taken a vowel of silence until he can go to flight school. Olive Hoover is just an ordinary girl, but has the dream of becoming the next Miss America. Grandpa Edwin Hoover lives with his son's family as he got kicked out of his nursing home as he got caught taking a line heroin, and his philosophy of life it to do everything even it kills you. Frank Hoover has just moved into his sister's house, as he has now been let out of hospital as he tried to kill himself, when he got fired, lost his house, lost an award that he should of got and his gay lover left him. So all together they make one jumbled up family. When Olive gets told that she is going to be a finalist in the Little Miss Sunshine beauty Pageant, the whole family drives across the country to get her there on time, but while they make it in time, and by the end of it, will they be a much closer family? This is a movie, that everyone will enjoy, children will not find it funny though, as they will not understand most of it, teens may understand some and find it slightly humorous, but adults will love it and find it funny and thought provoking. A great performance from the virtually unknown Abigail Breslin, she makes a very cute olive and is really believable. Once again another strange performance from Steve Carrel. This movie is really enjoyable, but not maybe you would want to watch over again and again. It really does make you think about yourself, your life, the world we live in and other's around, especially the one you love the most. You're Family. The Humor in the movie is rather crude at times, and does have a kind of "damn the world" attitude to it. This movie is also a bit quirky and if you like those random and weird movies then is defiantly one for you as it is full or weird and random story lines and it is full of quirky jokes. The jokes in this movie isn't so upfront and are obvious to see, they just kind of creep up on you. As well as all of this this movie shows an insight into the sick world of beauty Pageant's and how little girls and made up to be like porcelain dolls and act like them to, its shows how horrible it must be for children in those beauty pageants and how completive the movie can be. Like I've said adults will absolutely love this movie and think it's hilarious whereas most children will not, but it is defiantly and movie to go and see at least once, whatever age you are.