Save your money; this movie is not funny.

Rating: 1/10 (20 August 2006)

What an awful movie. I really did not see why The Washington Post and WETA film critics thought this movie was the comedy of the summer or why the Sundance Film Festival people thought the movie was laugh-out loud funny. From start to finish, it's a string of dirty little jokes told or acted out by the unlikeable little characters of this dysfunctional family and the people they encounter along their way to a kiddie beauty pageant with its 5- and 6-year old JonBenet Ramsay look-alikes in bikinis being ogled by dirty old men.
The characters cannot even claim credit as endearing eccentrics like the characters in Anne Tyler's novels and the film made from her story, The Accidental Tourist. There is nothing endearing about any of them, except perhaps chubby little Olive, and even she doesn't really win your heart. Since the reviews said this was a laugh-out-loud comedy, I kept trying to find appropriate places to laugh. No one in the audience helped cue me in by laughing either. Maybe a laugh track like the TV sitcoms would help us find the humor in this movie. Until then, save your money! Or better yet, for a first rate flick, go to see the Devil Wears Prada!