Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The First in a Sporadic Series of Movie Reviews

Napoleon Dynamite: Dumbest Movie Ever? Your Mom's the dumbest movie ever! Yesssss!

This was one of the best movies I have seen to capture the discomfort that most teens have just being in their own skin. Napoleon and Kip were excellent.

I realized after Uncle Rico was complaining that his ex-wife said he was stuck in 1982 that the whole movie is stuck in 1982! Check out the cars, the clothes, the hair styles - all of it! Watch the movie with that in mind and it is even funnier.

This movie needs to be watched a few times to pick up all of the nuances.

A few of favorite scenes of mine:
- Napoleon's phone call home to Kip
- Deb and Napoleon when she was at his front door
- Uncle Rico selling the tupperware and the couple with the promotional model boat. Everything about that scene is too funny!

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In closing, I think this movie was so universal that it was loved by people like Napoleon and Deb and it was so quirky that it was hated by people like Don and Summer. Peace out!

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