Best comedy we have seen in several years! Don't miss it!

Rating: 10/10 (11 September 2006)

Even tho the Phila. Inq. movie critic gave this just 2 1/2 stars out of 4, we went to see it on the say-so of all our family---they said it was great, and they were right! Reminded us a little of the road-trip zaniness of National Lampoon's "Family Vacation", but certainly in a different class in acting (all primaries great, and secondaries such as Beth Grant as a pageant official and Matt Winston as the MC deserve a mini-Oscar), story, atmosphere, and commentary on aspects of American culture, including 12-step programs and kiddie beauty pageants. (Makes you ache for poor Jon Benet even when she was alive.) Plot keeps you guessing right up to the end. In the past year we have been disappointed by the one-dimensional quality of "Wedding Crashers" and "The Devil Wears Prada", but "Little Miss Sunshine" made up for all of that.