Reviews

I can't get enough of Napoleon Dynamite. There isn't a movie that I can think of in the history of all my movie watching that has made me laugh more than this one. I was grateful to find out this last weekend that it has spread all the way to San Diego. I went to the 8:30 showing, which eventually become a sold out show. I usually don't like watching a movie more than once, but I really enjoyed this one the second time around. I listened to the review on the internet that Ebert gave this movie. For some reason he gave it a thumbs down... His excuses for why he gave it a thumbs down were pathetic. No real logical reasoning. He basically said "I just wasn't buying it, and I didn't want to play along" yeah, fat middle aged men are usually the first ones to sit out and not play along.

But Roeper disagreed and gave it a thumbs up. You can really tell who has the sense of humor and who wants to over analyze everything.

What I like so much about this movie is that it's simple minded.

People have been too critical of it. I don't know why. It's just a movie that makes you laugh and feel good. You don't have to think about anything. It's not abstract in any way. There is no throwing you through a loop where you have to figure out what will happen next. You just simply follow along and enjoy the ride. Napoleon gets picked on lot, and lacks a lot of social capacity, but he's confident and these things don't even phase him, which really taught me a valuable lesson. I like the fact that he didn't feel the need for revenge on those that did him wrong. There is just a good moral in the movie that good things happen to good people in the end.

Anyone that walks away from this movie saying it sucked, or it didn't make them laugh, either didn't get it, or they're just the type that have to analyze and question everything in their path. All this movie requires is a person with a good sense of humor that can laugh at themselves from time to time.

This is by far one of the best movies I have ever seen. I had to drive 2 hours and pay $10 just to see it, but it was all worth it. The material in this movie was fresh, creative, original, and kept you laughing the whole time. You won't find another movie quite like it.

If you're still curious about it, there were only 40 or less people in the theater when I saw it, but if you were sitting in the front like I was you'd think that the theater was packed because of the crowd response. I've read some reviews that this movie doesn't go anywhere, but they're all full of crap. It does go somewhere, and ends strong. You have to give it to the director Jered Hess. No one makes their first movie this good. And all the actors (most of them having hardly any acting experience on film) did an incredible job. You can't top a movie like this. You'll regret it if you don't see Napoleon Dynamite