So after seeing the Oscar nominations yesterday and realizing that I had not seen any of the five Best Picture nominees, I decided to right that situation and uphold my duties as an entertainment journalist. Tonight I rented Little Miss Sunshine.

First of all, nobody told me this was an almost exact remake of the 1983 Chevy Chase film National Lampoon’s Vacation. I’m not shitting you; we’ve got (spoilers ahead):

A dysfunctional family on a cross-country trip;

A running joke about a wacky malfunctioning vehicle;

A loud, abrasive, foul-mouthed elderly member of the extended family riding along for comic relief;

The death of the above family member;

A wacky misadventure regarding the family member’s body because they can’t delay the trip for funeral arrangements, resulting in them travelling with the body;

A disappointment once they arrive at their destination, resulting in the family acting out and disrupting the operation (and being being let off by the police at the end).

Next up I intend to rent the Brad Pitt film Babel, wherein Pitt plays a father taking his family on vacation in Europe, resulting in a series of wacky cultural misunderstandings.

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