Film · Prime Video · 2004
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Napoleon Dynamite
53Watch it awake.
Odd, local, and kinder than its deadpan. A small yes.
The review
Napoleon is not cool and the film does not rescue him into coolness. It lets him be strange in a town of strange people, and it lets Kip and Pedro and Deb be people rather than lessons. The dance at the assembly is embarrassing and it is an act of friendship. That is enough plot.
Some of the humor is 'look at these hicks.' More of it, if you stay, is affection. A teenager who feels unfit can use it. It will not teach ambition. It teaches showing up in a bad shirt for someone else's speech.
Journal
Keep Napoleon Dynamite in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Piety are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Back to the Future
65 instead of 53
Back to the Future is still a comedy film, and it scores 65 instead of 53. What you gain is household: The plot is the parents' courtship.
The eight
- 4Industry
Chapstick, a sign, a tetherball. The work is small and local.
- 5Household
A grandmother, a brother, a house of leftovers. They are still a family.
- 2Piety
A llama and a youth group, lightly.
- 7Courage
He dances in front of the school for Pedro.
- 5Republic
A class election in a real high school, not a mythic one.
- 6Temperance
No one is rewarded for cruelty. Status loses.
- 7Truth
The film does not pretend he becomes someone else.
- 6Stewardship
A friend is the thing he has at the end.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Napoleon Dynamite · 53IMDb
