another fail

The final dance was pretty much the whole point and punchline to the film.
Also, the word is 'failure'. Grow up and stop allowing yourself to be brainwashed into substituting the English language for internet memes. I don't know it's "another" either - is it a sequel to something? No.
The film is overrated though - being 'indie' in style (yet with world-famous actors) seems to have fooled people into raving about it.

I think you're kind of over thinking it and putting to much emphasis on the actual pageant. It's slightly anticlimactic (you wish just a little more would happen) but that's the greatness of it. Leaving the movie wanting more was good in this case. The dynamics of the family were set up through the road trip, so by the time the pageant comes the character development is phenomenal. You see how much different the Hoovers are than everyone else there, that was the whole point, not to objectify anything. After all of their struggles-franks attempted suicide, their impending debt, grandpas death, Dwayne's dreams crushed, and at the end they're able to put it all beside them, get up on that stage, and be themselves. Just like we should in life. Don't take life too seriously and dance when you want and don't worry what people think. That was the message, they weren't trying to make some crazy statement about little girls being objectified at pageants, it was just meant to be a contrast to Olive.