Movie Review: Napoleon Dynamite

After hearing the praises from my sister, who has seen it at least 10 times now, I decided to watch Napoleon Dynamite with her. All I knew going in was that it was about a geeky looking kid whose favorite animal is the liger. It turned out to be quite an amusing film I must say, just the ridiculousness of what transpires from scene to scene make it like nothing I have ever seen before. Napoleon is always talking about his mad skills and how everyone else is an idiot, GOSH! The movie has a few actors and actresses that never really did much to make themselves a household name but may be familiar to the audience. There is the girl from Waterworld, all growed up and not looking as retarded as she once did, the guy who played Oswald on the Drew Carey Show, and the guy who played Laslo in Real Genius. I got the impression that I was not watching actors perform characters, like so much Hollywood shite, but that I was watching real people who are that way everyday of their lives. My sister said, “If you are not one of the characters from the movie yourself than you know someone that is.” The soundtrack is pretty good and the tag line for the movie describes the main character better then anything I could come up with. Way back when I first heard about the film, I did not know what to think about it. Even now I don’t know, all I do know is that I could watch it again and laugh just as much if not more.