Napoleon Dynamite Reviews

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