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Sunny or dark, comedy should never be as predictable as Little Miss Sunshine.
... a scrappy human comedy that takes an honest path to laughs and is twice as funny and touching for it.
... this isn't much more than a glorified sitcom, but it deftly dramatizes our conflicting desires for individuality and an audience to applaud it.
The funniest and most gracefully written, acted and directed dysfunctional-American-family farce comedy of the year thus far.
Dayton and Faris satirize our win-win culture, but they don't miss a trick promoting Little Miss Sunshine for the winner's circle.
Little Miss Sunshine makes you want to gather all the kooks in your life and take a road trip.
Fox Searchlight loads the standard DVD with impressive features, including audio commentary tracks that are fun and entertaining, alternate endings and a music video.
While the screenplay is impressive and deserving of its recognition, it is Alan Arkin's performance-of-a-lifetime that separates this from other well-written small movies.
Harmless enough as passable road movies go, but I can't help but wish directors of films like these would grow some damn balls.
Sundance-calibrated sitcom
I loved it, every bit of it.
Like little kids spouting dirty words in certain comedies, this film from first-time directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris undermines the subversive with the self-conscious. But it's still funny.
...mediocre black comedy.
This inspirational, hilariously sad dysfunctional-family-road-trip dramedy offers absolutely everything -- except pretension.
A few touching and surprising moments aside, it all feels a little prefab, with family dysfunction as the indie version of a high concept.
Writer Michael Arndt has cleverly captured the bribery and corruption which lie at the heart of most families.
The chaotic dinner scene pops like syncopated jazz, setting the tone for a warm, funny film that has more smiles than belly laughs.
Accumulates depth and fleshes out its characters.
Charming, moving, warm and brilliantly hysterical, Little Miss Sunshine is easily the funniest thing I have seen in a theater in years.
A cheap Sisyphean metaphor literally drives the thing: at first played for laughs, it's recycled to the point of nausea.
Ride along to dysfunction in quirky indie comedy.
A hilariously caustic package that makes its ultimate uplift genuinely feel-good instead of insufferably saccharine.
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