#30: Little Miss Sunshine (2006) April 2, 2007
Posted by badblokebob in : Comedy, Drama, 2000s, 4 stars, 2007 , trackback2006 | Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris | 97 mins | DVD | 15 / R
People will tell you this is a comedy, when really it’s a comedy-drama. A TV critic once said, not wrongly, that a comedy-drama is something that isn’t especially funny nor especially dramatic so tries to do both. Luckily, Little Miss Sunshine is frequently laugh-out-loud hilarious, from the opening dinner scene to the send-up of inherently paedophilic beauty pageants at the climax (so hilarious it almost single-handedly pushed my mark up to a five). There’s also some competent drama threaded through to make that side worthwhile. And I suspect that lovable little Abigail Breslin was more deserving of the Oscar than that irritating Jennifer Hudson.
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