Napoleon Dynamite
Dec. 22nd, 2004 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greybetaOn a whim, I bought Napoleon Dynamite yesterday. I was walking through Best Buy to get my sister the first two seasons of Seinfield when I stumbled upon the new release. Pirate girl (anime explanation lady says that she's known as pirate girl because she talked up "talk like a pirate day" too much), said I had to watch this amazing movie if I wanted to continue being her friend. Or maybe she said it was the best movie evar, I don't quite remember.
My random snap judgment: It's worth a rental, but don't buy it like I did.
Let's see, the New York Post says this Napoleon Dynamite is "Hilarious!" People called it "Wonderfully Original!" My friends back home gave it a "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?"
Well, they did have an intro that I haven't seen before, but I'm no movie connoisseur.
It's a movie about nothing. Nil. Nada.
Okay, so the back of the DVD cover makes up some premise about Napoleon helping his friend Pedro win class president of his high school with the aid of shy Deb. That makes up a sum total of ten minutes of the movie.
The real problem with the movie is that you are Napoleon. And Napoleon doesn't feel a thing. I mean the guy wouldn't flinch going through acupuncture. And he's absentminded, so they scene transitions are rather awkward. You'll see a guy receiving a phone call, then it'll cut to the next scene, then the next scene will have the result of that phone call. The first hour of the movie moves so slowly, and it's dry to boot. So dry that even the peanut throwing gallery couldn't make fun of it.
Oh, you'll hear these reviewers rave about how Napoleon shows his nerdiness or something like that. Meh? Am I supposed to laugh at a guy who bikes everywhere because he doesn't own a car? I guess that's funny.
Maybe I'm missing something, but the whole storyline with Napoleon's brother Kip fell flat with me. Okay, so Kip met his soulmate over the Internet. OMG, she's BLACK! 133+, Kip turned himself into a gangsta! It's funny I tell you! No...not really.
Napoleon's uncle, he was a character. And a good salesman. He was actually one of the more interesting characters in the movie.
Oh, and then there's Deb, the love interest of Napoleon. Wow, the first time you see her your head will hurt. She wears her hair in a off-kilter one-sided pigtail. Your brain will put the other pigtail on the other side, but then you know you're lying to yourself. It hurts, it hurts.
But it's worth one viewing to see the end scene. While most presidential elections include speeches, very few of them have skits. It doesn't matter what you say. You just need to put on a good show to carry the day. The ending scene with Napoleon dancing is awesome. Too bad you have to sludge through an hour and a half of movie to get to it.
In conclusion, it's a bad sign when I keep checking the counter to see how much longer it is until the end.
My random snap judgment: It's worth a rental, but don't buy it like I did.
Let's see, the New York Post says this Napoleon Dynamite is "Hilarious!" People called it "Wonderfully Original!" My friends back home gave it a "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?"
Well, they did have an intro that I haven't seen before, but I'm no movie connoisseur.
It's a movie about nothing. Nil. Nada.
Okay, so the back of the DVD cover makes up some premise about Napoleon helping his friend Pedro win class president of his high school with the aid of shy Deb. That makes up a sum total of ten minutes of the movie.
The real problem with the movie is that you are Napoleon. And Napoleon doesn't feel a thing. I mean the guy wouldn't flinch going through acupuncture. And he's absentminded, so they scene transitions are rather awkward. You'll see a guy receiving a phone call, then it'll cut to the next scene, then the next scene will have the result of that phone call. The first hour of the movie moves so slowly, and it's dry to boot. So dry that even the peanut throwing gallery couldn't make fun of it.
Oh, you'll hear these reviewers rave about how Napoleon shows his nerdiness or something like that. Meh? Am I supposed to laugh at a guy who bikes everywhere because he doesn't own a car? I guess that's funny.
Maybe I'm missing something, but the whole storyline with Napoleon's brother Kip fell flat with me. Okay, so Kip met his soulmate over the Internet. OMG, she's BLACK! 133+, Kip turned himself into a gangsta! It's funny I tell you! No...not really.
Napoleon's uncle, he was a character. And a good salesman. He was actually one of the more interesting characters in the movie.
Oh, and then there's Deb, the love interest of Napoleon. Wow, the first time you see her your head will hurt. She wears her hair in a off-kilter one-sided pigtail. Your brain will put the other pigtail on the other side, but then you know you're lying to yourself. It hurts, it hurts.
But it's worth one viewing to see the end scene. While most presidential elections include speeches, very few of them have skits. It doesn't matter what you say. You just need to put on a good show to carry the day. The ending scene with Napoleon dancing is awesome. Too bad you have to sludge through an hour and a half of movie to get to it.
In conclusion, it's a bad sign when I keep checking the counter to see how much longer it is until the end.
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Date: 2004-12-22 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-23 12:55 am (UTC)I believe she said we only had to watch it. Cause my condition on continuing the friendship rests on me being able to think Napoleon Dynamite is not teh funny. ;)
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Date: 2004-12-25 11:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-27 11:15 pm (UTC)It's kind of ironic, though, since the girl who insisted Napoleon Dynamite was the best movie evar is on the BSU leadership team.
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Date: 2004-12-23 03:17 am (UTC)Peace out,
Marie
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Date: 2004-12-23 04:35 am (UTC)[sarcarsm]And if you don't, your roommate and I are in agreement that you're the idiot.[/sarcasm]