I really hated the pace and lack of jokes. Unless you found things that are usaully not that important funny then, it wasn't funny. I hated the whole time machine thing. I also hated the characters none of them were normal or at least in my view even slightly likeable. One thing the makers really did wrong is they made the characters and plot so strange that it wasn't easy to relate to.
"Try and hit me Napoleon." "I have your equipment in my locker." I never got to see the movie in theatres cause I live in a small town, but my sister and I rented it when it came out and purchased it the next day. Awesome movie. BTW, wouldn't it have to take place today because of the internet chatting thing? or at least rather recently. Plus, Summer and her people dance to a Backstreet Boys song for the president skit thingie. Although the whole dancing to eighties songs at the dance and the peoples clothes being eighties kinda made me think.
I love this movie!! "Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day" Kip is frickin hilarious!!
I might have to be the first jive ass trick to say I'm indifferent. But that's because I've yet to see it. The whole MTV association put me off in the first place, and I"ve heard equal amounts of good and bad about it. Someone said that Dynamite's Uncle looks like a buddy of mine's Dad.... so I gotta go check it out just because of the association to a hilarious motherfucker.
I read on IMDB.com that Napoleon Dynomite is a remake of a film called "Peluca" that was made in 2003. Does anyone know anything about this?
napoleon was origionally Seth, and pedro were two guys that they morphed into one for the feature.....you can see it on the bonus features on the full screen side of the dvd...
hahah, really, he's the creepy uncle? No this guy is nothing like creepy, he's a great guy, always laughin' great dad, even if he does have a strange fondness for his plastic waterpipes.
i like the pace. in real life, all events don't lead to one conclusion. also, you must be living in some superhumanland where nobody's weird, because i absolutely know people who would say "idiot" like napoleon, and yeah, i'd think it's weird, but i laugh too. a movie about tolerance with lots of quotables is fine by my me. plus, farming communities and the different cultures in those communities don't get enough coverage in theatres. "we have a great ffa lineup, and i'd like to see more of that" "a good dairy cow should have, like, four" and pedro's pin(y)ata fiasco really touched me. i felt so bad for him. what's the big deal? it sure was no embarrassment to Idaho. i wanted to kill the principle. so...yeah, i liked it.
i love it too, napoleon is like 3 of my cousins so mushined into one...and i could really relate to him, deb and pedro cause me and my friends are sort of outsiders...
I liked it when I saw it in theaters the first 4 times. Now it has gotten way over hyped and has given it a sour taste in my mouth. Still a funny movie.
Yeah, Jon Heder, who played Napoleon is a student at Brigham Young University, and 'Peluca' was his short film for one of his classes. I'm guessing he entered it in some film festival and MTV saw it and picked it up. You can watch Peluca in the special features on the DVD. 'Randy go find your grandma or somethin you're buggin the HECK outta me, GOSH!'
