Laughs! Comedy! BS!...don't expect any of that in this. Spoiler and spoiled movie

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2007)

The only thing that made this movie somewhat watchable was because any second you expected Steve Carrel to do something humorous. Never happened, but everyone has a bad day I suppose. I finally broke down and watched this movie when I heard it had been nominated by the Oscars. I don't know why I fell for it, one would think the Oscar committee with it's combined knowledge and expertise would pick a noteworthy movie to give an award to. Obviously they're all new hires, or the writer/directors and/or grips blew the committee to get this movie nominated. Best actress for a 7 year old, wow, right? It's a 7 yr old girl acting like a 7 year old girl...hell of a stretch I know. The number 1 Proust scholar in the country attempting chopsueycide because his gay lover left him for the 2nd best Proust scholar in the country? Then we have a ICP lookalike 15 year old who hates everyone and takes a vow of silence until he becomes a test pilot for the service. This kid's not going to open his mouth until he's done with college and flight training school? All that hard work, effort and he didn't take the time to check and see that you can't be color blind and be a pilot, maybe that's why the 7 yr old got an Oscar nod, she crushed her older brother's dreams by telling him he's color blind in a VW bus. Which would probably be preferable to letting him in on the secret before school when he could pick up a trench coat and a semi-auto rifle to take his spaz breakdown out on the kids in his school. Then you have the dysfunctional parents that can't get along and yell at each other throughout the movie, the pervert grandfather who teaches his 7 yr old grand daughter how to dance like a stripper for her talent portion of the Lil Miss Sunshine pageant. This should be a Greek tragedy, minus all the interesting stuff. When you see the little girls in the pageant with spray on tans, their hair and makeup that would have done an adolescent whore house in Tijuana proud and you think it can't get any worse, you get the star 7 yr old on stage grinding her ass and gyrating to a popular 80's stripper song. The only Oscar this should get is if they create a section for pedophilia, or for over hyped crap. If you are male this movie equates to about 3 chick flicks at once.