The place, Idaho. The name, Napoleon Dynamite. The plot, nonexistant, but who cares! Follow the exploits of Napoleon as he befriends a glamour shot queen, a presidential hopeful, and even shows off a few of his "skills" along the way through one of the most original indies ever.
Picture: Anamorphic Widescreen at 1:85:1, which I'm starting to dislike, frankly. Foolscreen transfer is on the flip-siiiiiide.
Sound: Napoleon gets the 5.1 Dolby dip, which is nice for the films great score and movie driven dialogue. No explosions to speak of. Spanglish speaking viewers get 2.0 Dolby Surround.
Features: Killer interface! The opening frame is of an old school television sat down on a brown velour couch. The main "menu" is of a school lunch tray, with assorted food, and the selections written in ketchup and mustard, lol. The other menu's share ideas used in the opening credits. Easy to navigate, it makes you hella hungry, though.
Extras: Not a bad extree stack for an indie. It includes "Peluca", a short film from 2002 which went on to be "Napoleon Dynamite" itself, about 5 deleted scenes, a Kip wedding documentary, still frames, and the original 8 MTV "3 Easy Steps.." TV spots. Director/Writer/Producer commentary is there as well, and always a plus. Soundtrack trailer and 2 movie trailers round out the discs extras.
The BAD part about it is that the extras are split up over the two sides, since it's a dreaded flipper. Blech.
OVERALL: "Napoleon Dynamite" was one of my favorite movies of 2004, an independent gem, and a riot most of the time. Typical transfer and sound offerings get a 8.0, extras are bountiful even if on two sides, recieving aother 8.0, and I absolutely love the actual movie, naturally, for an overall score of 8.5.
Fans of independent cinema will eat this up, but mainstream America will see Napoleon as one of the stupidest movie characters since "Dumb and Dumber".
Last edited by Cory Chaos on Jan 12th, 2005 at 05:26 AM
well said, and true...first thing my mom and g/f said when the trailer was on tv and I said "i gotta get that" was "it will be worse than dumb and dumber"
I still need to pick this up.
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One of the stupidest movie characters since Dumb and Dumber? You say that like it's a bad thing. But everyone I know says this movie is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I like to consider myself a fan of independent cinema. I absolutely hated this! It wasn't funny, the acting was terrible (yadda yadda yadda, that was the point, blah blah blah), and the characters were hollow and dull.
This is what I like to call..."It's so stupid, It's funny!, this applies to Dumb & Dumber, Napoleon Dynamite, National Lampoon movies, Airplane, and Dude, Where's My Car?.
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Just have to put my opinion in here on this movie. I hated it. I can't believe I wasted the money to go see it. Okay, there are funny stupid movies and there are stupid stupid movies. And ND falls under stupid stupid. (I sound so dumb! Tee hee) There is a point where they go beyond the stupidty type of funny and go into a whole new realm of stupid. Ah well, I feel like a basher or something. I mean I usaually don't speak out so much against stuff...but this movie isn't worth the praise it got or the endless quoting of it at school. *sighs*
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