Little Miss Sunshine

what do you get when you put a cocaine sniffing grandpa, a Niethcze loving teenager who decided to stop talking, a fat little girl who wants to be a beauty queen, a motivational speaker who is a failure himself, a brilliant but suicidal gay guy and a mother who keeps the family together? oh yes, they are all related.... a family... which brings you ro realize that if there is fun in dysfunctional, there is I in family... and you would really be happy about that I in family if you are form this kind...

i think it was in jeffrey jeturian movie Bridal Shower, that eating cake appeared to be so sad... well, it made me sad, by the amazing cherry pie picache... but Little Miss Sunshine actually made me cry about, guess what? eating ice cream... and i am a "cake" person...

the movie hits it big on the tomato meter, with 92% freshness rating...

the movie is about a family, who having have to travel acroos the state of califrnia to enter their fat daughter to a beaty contestm, the Little Miss Sunshine... (i know FAT is a little harsh, but this is coming from another fatty... no harm done) but because thety could not afford the plane ticket they have to drive their witha an old van, but toni colette (amazing acting) could not drive a stick, a manual, so greg kinnear, the moticational speaker, has to come with them, so the the grandpa, the little girls coach has to come too, and so does the teenager and the newest addition to their family, toni collete's brilliant gay brother, who happens to have just committed suicide because of a broken heart, since he cannot be left all alone... (you can never doubt the comedic prowess of steve carelle)

the synopsis is just a riot, what more the movie... with this kind of plot, it is easy to become a Mara Clara or an Esperanza, but thankfully, the director jonathan dayton went another way...

what i like most about this movie is how it potrays life as it is, you know how we all say that everyone is weird anyway, might as well be weird... this movie is not about that, because the family is trying to be normal, but their personality alone catapults them beyond normality... they were not trying to be normal, they were trying to fit in... but the family just stands out...

the girl, amazing personality, but with a full figured body...

a smart gay guy swho succumbs to the power of love...

a war veteran who is a cocaine addict who justifies his "hobby" with his age..

a motivational speaker that drived their family to bankcruptcy...

a young boy who continously read thus spoke zarathusthra, a huge painting of Nietchze's face in his room, amd not speak for 9 months...

and the mother who just tries to pace up with them...

their exploits was convincingly real and yet still astoundingly funny... just when they eat, or fight, or cuss... you feel with them, you understand, because somehow the movie presents life, our own life... it reflected your own movie, your own family... probably the secret of the movie is the amazing writing, the amazing acting... it was not trying to make you laugh, it was just funny... from every bit of sarcasm to an entire aray of parody, this movie is just watchable and relatable...

diappointing though that it was only shown in Ayala malls, and we all know how expensive watching movies there... but i was shocked that a lot of people came to the showing, although, most of them foreigners, you can see that filipino audiences are really choosing their movies... before the movie started, a trailer of tatlong baraha was shown... and people started laughing, and not in a good way...

this movie showed that no matter how weird your family is, it is always them you can go to... and that if you are ashamed about your family... remember, an apple does not fall far from the tree...

oh, did i mention, this movie made me cry twice...

(song "superfreak" enters)