I watched this movie with an open mind, but really didn't enjoy it at all. I realize that not all movies have to have a message, but this movie wasn't funny either. A dysfunctional family (to say the least) travels across the country to have their daughter participate in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. The family was very concerned to get their daughter to the pageant on time, but only the drug addicted grandfather took the time to prepare her -- of course, a recipe for disaster. The daughter was embarassed at the end, which was "solved" in the movie by the family making complete idiots of themselves. I found no value in the movie at all -- not entertaining and a total waste of time.

Liked it, but more in need of a PG-13 rating instead of an R one. This & Austin Powers should switch ratings. BTW, just saw it & it didn't kill me(look @ my age).

Nothing's A PROBLEM....maybe the sex discussion is a little crude but they'll find it out sometime! GREAT MOVIE! BEST INDIE MOVIE OF ALL TIME TIED WITH JUNO...HAHA

This isn't "just another family road trip comedy", as I thought it would be--this was DARK, QUIRKY COMEDY at its best. The acting was brilliant, the characters were unusual and the ending was touching and unpredictable (it made me cry). The grandpa said a lot of things (f-words, etc) that were probably inappropriate for younger watchers, and he used drugs, but they ended up killing him, which is a positive anti-drug message. Overall a beautiful movie, but be careful about showing even the edited-for-TV version to kids.

This movie was very good! I watched with my older kids and we all loved it! While the morals arn't good from any character-including Olive,mainly by naivety- the family all throughly loves each other(despite an earlier line"I hate EVERYONE"). Nothing my kids don't allready know about.

I don't think teens under 14-15 would even enjoy this flick, so not much to worry about there. I LOVED this movie and while the social behavior (stealing a body, suicide attempt) is zany or serious, the message and family dynamic is a great lesson for all families. I loved it! It's a great story of family support, being yourself, and accepting who you are.

the tide of superficiality, coarseness and lack of conscience is pretty scary in our american culture...it continues to grow. That movie represents how far we have sunk into the coarseness and acceptance of crudity and crassness, and then some critics have the audacity to present it as comedy. Why are our young folks lacking values and direction???....well guess what, perhaps it is because we condone messages like that and don't have the courage to speak up and question others' values. It also tells us how hungry americans are for some fun and laughter ...and therefore will laugh at almost anything without thinking who it is hurting. It is NOT okay or funny when a perverted, drug addict grandfather tells his 15 year old grandson to f**k as many women as he can and when he influences his little grand daughter (who by the way, parents allowed to sleep in his room with him and did not even ask about what is he teaching her, yuck!!)...a perverted old coot who influences her by teaching her to dance in an almost lewd way so that he can thumb his nose at society...and then the family gets up on the stage and dances like she does to "save her"...guess who won? Yes, the dead Grandfather left his skewed values for us to find cute and funny. I'm sorry....that is not funny and when I have said to people "think about it" this little light of awakening seems to turn on. That family should have led her off the stage and comforted her and taken her to a dancing and acting school . I really am for happy endings and solutions. So that film leaves us with a sense of "Wow , that was funny!!" and then....wait a minute, it WAS a pretty serious subject and pretty dark. The funny part was the car and pushing it...and then that got old. When I have talked to about 7 people lately about that film , I say, tell me what was funny? And they begin to wake up and see that they are being brainwashed into condoning this. No wonder folks in other countries think we have lost it. Good theater has always been a forum for looking at good and evil and all that is in between and having good dialog...taking it to a deeper level to get past the superficial. If we Americans go down the tubes (and maybe we already have) it will be due to that lack of depth and meaning ...maybe we are trying to find it I am not afraid to try to wake up some of the younger ones before I die....and don't you be afraid either. We still have a lot of juice and people do listen.

See, it's a great movie funny. But a 9 year old shouldnt learn how 2 do drugs and slit wrists and even know that its ok to buy porn a 9 year old shouldn't see a 10 year old dancing like shes a hooker on stage in front of people. im 10 i thought it was inappropriate but i already knew about that stuff so i was not the slightest affected. Perfect to show kids whats bad and give them a life lesson (if you do drugs you die or get hurt,plus its illegal)