Napoleon Dynamite Review |
by Ryan Ellis |
All throughout 'Napoleon Dynamite', I kept waiting for the other funny shoe to
drop. After all, this little quirk-job of a movie has a reputation that
precedes it. It seems that if you want to be hip, you have to see this movie.
Since I'm not hip in the...more |
Napoleon Dynamite Review |
by Andy Keast (Rating: 0.5/4) |
The protagonist of "Napoleon Dynamite" is a mouth-breathing runt who responds
to everything with bizarre hostility in his voice, all too indicative of poor
education or poor nutrition or both. I found the character to be downright
annoying, the way his...more |
Napoleon Dynamite Review |
by Jonathan F. Richards |
Boredom is like catnip to some filmmakers. Nothing stirs up the sludge of
their creative juices like the prospect of people with nothing to say and
nothing to do not saying it and not doing it. I offer this as a working
axiom: a movie about...more |
Napoleon Dynamite Review |
by JoBlo (Rating: 5/10) |
PLOT:
A big-time Idaho nerd doesn't quite fit into his high school surroundings and
seems to get beat up by the jocks a lot. Then one day, he meets a new kid named
Pedro and starts hanging with him for companionship. The two nerds try their
best to make...more |
Napoleon Dynamite Review |
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 1/4) |
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE is cast with a bunch of unknowns -- actors who are unknown
for good reasons. Like a reject for a TV movie, the film is an MTV production,
although why they thought it deserved a theatrical release is beyond me. I
suspect that they...more |
Napoleon Dynamite Review |
by Susan Granger (Rating: 6/10) |
Susan Granger's review of "Napoleon Dynamite" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Settling comfortably into the high-school angst genre, 24 year-old
filmmaker Jared Hess' low-budget comedy, which was a hit at the Sundance Film
Festival, focuses on losers....more |
Napoleon Dynamite Review |
by Laura Clifford (Rating: B) |
A defiant cadre of misfits take their place among the high school jocks and
low riders of Preston, Idaho. When his grandmother (Sandy Martin, "One
Night at McCool's') is hospitalized after an dirt bike riding accident, one
such teen, despite the...more |
Napoleon Dynamite Review |
by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: B) |
Reviewed by Harvey S. Karten
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Grade: B
Directed by: Jared Hess
Written by: Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess
Cast: Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Efren Ramirez, Aaron Ruell, Tina
Majorino, Diedrich Bader
Screened at: Disney, NYC, 6/2/04 more |