Tuesday, December 21, 2004

MOVIES : Napoleon Dynamite

This is the sort of film that you watch and it tickles your fancy so much that you can't help rave about it, but you know that a lot of people just won't find it funny at all. I laughed. Almost continuously. Always loud. And so did most of the cinema (which is a catch-22 in a good way).
It's about a loser (Dynamite) from middle america (loser central) who is going through school being picked on by losers who are at least popular... Essentially it's a bunch of skits around the main characters of Dynamite, his mexican buddy Pidro, his online-lloking-for-love brother (?) Kip, his could-have-been-a-football-player uncle, and glamour-photographer/girlfriend-wannabe (come on Dynamite! She's begging for it!) Deb(?).
There is a story, and I loved the ending, but it's fairly incidental. The acting is non-existent, which is why the lead is played by some guy who's never acted before and gets away with it. This is the sort of film that gets made time and time again, and every now and then makes it to the mainstream; like clerks for the highschool (except the characters are thick as, while Clerk's problems were rooted in their brains being bigger than there, ahem, jobs)
I loved it.

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