Superfreak, Superfreak

The birthday celebration continues, of course, since it is not November yet :) This installment, Noeha, Galina and Lauren took me to sushi and a movie. This post's reference to the classic Rick James song is because of the movie. You will understand once you've seen it.


Little Miss Sunshine

This is the best indie comedy I've seen this year. Take a very dysfunctional Albuquerque family with an average-looking daughter who wants to be a beauty queen, strap them into a VW bug and send them to Southern California to participate in a pageant.

Sounds easy enough but oh, the complications along the way. Sheesh. Not to mention the end performance from the 10 year old star of the film, which is one of the funniest 5-minute sequences I've seen this year. I could not stop laughing.

Acting is incredible, everyone, but I have to give a big hand to Paul Dano, who plays the son. It takes some talent to have strong presence without saying nary a word.

While this story is decidedly a comedy and an acidic one at that, it is still one with heart. The characters are brilliantly off-beat, each with their own personal demons but strangely enough it is their demons that eventually bring them all together in one big, messy, hysterical group hug of an ending. Little Miss Sunshine may not win any awards but you will be cheering it on anyway.

She's a super freak, super freak
She's super-freaky, yow

9.5/10

Little Miss Sunshine