Napolean Dynamite

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Saw this film tonite. It is mildly entertaining. It's actually kind of interesting.
This comedy makes "Dumb and Dumber" seem too Hollywoodish. The true dummies are beginning to surface!!
The three main characters are so nerdy disjointed. They are the opposite of Hollywood heroes. They are preoccupied, dull, can't relate at all to people. Really poor conversational skills. The main character really doesn't open his eyes. The three are as pathetic as they come.
But the "normal" people are just as bad off as the three. There is no normal in this film. Everyone is pathetic. I think that is the point.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it but I think not. This film pokes fun at american life and american culture. How stupid can we get?? Real stupid!! See the movie and see for yourself.
The main character seems at first so way out there. I mean retarded too. And the director really wants to show, it seems to me, how this teenager (rebel) is really better off than most of the others. And the director pulls it off.
The movie is absurd. The satire of american life is really very good. (There is a political satire here too, poking fun at american politics.)
The culture has become so ridiculous that you have to go to the absurd to match it and that is what this film does. It goes all the way and there is one pathetic scene after another to kind of savor.

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Topic - Napolean Dynamite - njjohn 20:30:28 12/26/04 (11)

Re: Napolean Dynamite - Daryl Zero 14:04:01 12/27/04 (2)

aspergers! - njjohn 14:34:26 12/27/04 (1)

Re: aspergers! - Daryl Zero 21:06:48 12/27/04 (0)

You're obviously too old to get it... - mkuller 10:17:08 12/27/04 (3)

Am I French? - njjohn 13:22:37 12/27/04 (2)

Are you part of the cult? - mkuller 08:12:58 12/28/04 (0)

Re: Am I French? - Dave-A 19:31:41 12/27/04 (0)

Two interesting different views. - njjohn 08:13:42 12/27/04 (1)

Re: Sure - Dave-A 19:37:05 12/27/04 (0)

I lasted forty minutes and bailed . . . . - mr grits 23:06:14 12/26/04 (1)

You should have "stayed the course". - njjohn 06:55:07 12/27/04 (0)

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