Tuesday, June 29, 2004

From The Movie Snob:

Napoleon Dynamite (B?). I saw this independent flick with my new best friend, and it was a record-setter -- I spent more time gaping in amazement during this movie than any other I can recall offhand. (The bizarre Pumpkin, with Christina Ricci, may be a close second.) Set in a small town in Idaho, the title character and (anti-)hero is a high-school kid who is so weird that even nerds would shun him. He's tall but unathletic, has hideous curly red hair, wears gigantic glasses, is perpetually exasperated with everything and everyone, and never seems to close his fish-like mouth. He also lacks the usual nerd virtues of intelligence and techological savvy, so he is pretty much doomed to wander dumbly from disaster to disaster. He has a few friends and family members around, but for the most part they are as socially inept as he is (or worse). I laughed a few times, but I felt vaguely bad about it because the humor comes pretty much solely from watching dim and unattractive people go about their business and helplessly suffer the indignities that the universe has in store for them. It's tough to give this movie a grade -- it's like an 86-minute-long train wreck that you just can't turn away from. See it if you dare.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Movie Snob proves again that he is a Snob. I give this movie two middle fingers (that equates to two thumbs up in a Napolean Dynamite kind of way). This movie was different ... perhaps too different for someone of the Snob's taste. This movie is very funny. Pedro is funny. The odd 80's in the 90's feel of the movie. The glamor shots. The wicked, cool breakdancing. How can you hate a movie or a character that rates everyone on whether they have any "ninja skills." I loved Ronjitsu or whatever the crazy kickboxing type class thing was ...

This is an odd, different movie ... see it if you want to avoid the crass, bloated, commercial fare that you usually get from Republican backed cinema movie houses. Rebels unite.

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