I finally saw this movie last night - one of my friends at work loaned me a copy of it.
I found it disturbingly funny ... the dance? At the pageant? Hilarious. The fact that it was dedicated to the recently-departed grandfather? Even more hilarious.
I mean, it had its sad moments, like when Olive woke her parents up because Grandpa wouldn't wake up, and the family meeting at the hospital, and I felt bad for Dwayne when he found out he was colour-blind and couldn't be an Air Force pilot, but in all, this was a warped, bizarre movie that had me laughing a lot of the way through it.