Napoleon Dynamite

April 18th, 2007

Over the last year or so whenever the conversation turns to must see movies, a lot of people have been shocked when they hear that I haven’t seen Napoleon Dynamite yet. They would say things like “What? You haven’t seen Napoleon Dynamite yet?” or “It’s the best damn movie ever made!!!”. So last night I finally saw the movie. I found it pretty funny, and a lot better than the average crap Hollywood produces most of the time. I would go so far as describing it as my kind of movie, especially the sense of humour. I found uncle Rico, who is stuck in the eighties and wishes he could go back there and make his football playing dreams come true, especially funny. But I have to say, this is definitely not the best movie ever made and I don’t understand the hype around it? I think it’s a case of, this is a “weird” underground movie and not so many people know about it so I’m gonna tell everybody it’s the best damn movie ever and I saw it before anybody else knew about it.