Review of Little Miss Sunshine (2006) by Connor B — 22 Aug 2012

Little Miss Sunshine is such a good movie because it is heartwarming, heartbreaking, charming, funny and just plain sweet from start to finish. The best thing about Little Miss Sunshine is how the family in the film begin to feel like your own as the movie goes on, there's the pushy father, the doting mother, the crazy brother, the suicidal uncle and the junkie but loving grandfather, we could try and say that these types of people don't exist in our families but in most cases they do albeit in different forms and so the movie builds a connection immediately with the audience because you watch how they act around each other and if you closed your eyes it could be your own family.

The story itself centers around Olive's longing to be crowned Little Miss Sunshine and with the family struggling financially they decide it best to make a road trip out of it and well the rest will be history, you will laugh and cry throughout the film sometimes both at the same time and by the end you will be cheering for Olive like she was your own relative.