Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine
Combined Rating: 80% (S:78%; P:84%) - As a critic, shedding expectations is a higher state of being I try to achieve before I watch anything. I dont read other reviews before I see the movie or even before I sit down to write my own, all as an effort to keep it real (dawg). It only takes a quick glance at a magazine cover to get whether people are hating, liking or really loving a movie so it is hard to avoid entirely. But as much as I try to approach each film with a fresh piece of paper to write on, buzz manages to influence the way we see things. When Im told that something is really solid and it isnt, even just a little, my disappointment is magnified. LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE has so many things going for it that what it is lacking makes it all the more frustrating because you really want it to live up to the hype.