Yellow Trip. Not that good

Rating: 5/10 (8 May 2007)

I didn't found this movie as special as i expected, and i can't understand the Oscar awards that this movie won (1) Best writing original screenplay?, well i can say it's original, but it isn't a good script, i disagree with the academy in this; i didn't felt a good writing showing this loving family with not much success in their professions going together in a not very successful car, all this when Richard motivating encouraging talk about being successful is repeated trough all the story. (2) Alan Arkin for best actor?, If Alan won an Oscar for this short acting (he appears in less than half of the movie), and for taking drugs, i think that the actors Jared Leto and Jennifer Connolly of Requiem for a Dream (2001) should have won the Oscar also; why the academy gave the Oscar to Arkin a lot of years after he was 2 time nominated in the 60's, well, i really don't know, but surely in those 2 nominations he acted the whole movie instead of this. Well i get laugh and really liked the character of Frank (Steve Carrell), as the funniest and more touching of the movie; i also liked Toni Collete as Sheryl, simply great!. I was also impressed knowing that this movie took 5 years to accomplish?, come on! 5 years!?, by matters of money, i really don't see the expenses in this film, besides the payment to the actors; and why they needed 5 different VW van for the filming?, i don't understand. But well, for the professional critics (i'm not one of them) this film is great and a masterpiece, for the IMDb voters, this movie is already in the top 250, but believe me, i tried but didn't saw too much good things in the movie, it was pretty standard to me and sometimes even boring.
ABOUT THE MOVIE: This film tells the story of the Hoovers, a particular family of Albuquerque, who consisted of: (1) Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin), a little girl that loved the beauty contests and her dream was to be in them, although she was a little fat and had big notorious glasses. (2) Richard Hoover (Greg Kinnear) the father of the family, who is a motivator speaker who promote his 9 steps theory to audiences, but his audiences where rather short (4 people average) (3) Dwayne (Paul Dano) the 'not Hoover' of the family who followed Nietzsche toughs and was having a vow of silence until he was accepted to the Air Force (4) Uncle Frank (Steve Carrell) the number one Proust scholar, gay and failed-suicide uncle (5) Sheryl (Toni Collete) The mother of the family, who loved them all but not was very good at kitchen (fried chicken was the meal of almost every day) and (6) Grandpa Edwin Hoover (Alan Arkin), a heroin addicted old man that stayed in home all day. All this successful family travel together in a VW old van to California in order to take Olive to the beauty contest of Little Miss Sunshine, in the trip they face a lot of situations that being somehow comic delay a little the trip.
5/10