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.

i found this a great family movie. i watched this with my oldest child and found no problems. there was some language but the f word was only used a few times.

Every character in this movie seems to be struggling with everyday life. Everyone wishes for a better life, and tries a different way of achieving that goal. While the little girl was delightful, my attention tended to focus on the teenage boy. He is a determined, disciplined boy who is also sweet and considerate. I admit I was alarmed by the grandfather's drug use, but that was my own bias - drug abuse is not just by teens. The family in this movie is not the cliched and pretty movie family, but a real, human group that pulls together.

Very entertaining and enjoyable. Not exactally the movie you anticipate but very good anyways.

Little Miss Sunshine is a great movie! For an R Rated Movie, there is not much innapropriate material. There is roughly about 10 f-words, some brief drug use/content, and some mild discussions about sex and homosexuality as well as a brief glimpse at the cover of a pornographic magazine. Besides that, there is such good lessons and values shown in this movie! The movie is also hilarious! IMO, the good outweighs the bad in this movie.

After seeing this film myself, I decided to let my 12 year old son see it. He watched it several times and has initiated discussion about it with me. Discussions about Olive's sweetness and innocence. About how very much the grandfather loved Olive in spite of his drug use and bad language. No other reviewr has mentioned the soundtrack, but it is exceptional and softens the film even more. The striptease, I must add, is done with such innocence and charm. Olive is entirely unaware of the significance of the music or the moves. She's just out there doing the dance that her grandfather worked up. Pudgy, average-looking Olive shows more self-confidence and strength than all the other "beauty" pageant girls. It is a DELIGHTFUL movie!