Napoleon Dynamite Reviews

For all its charm and its impeccable leads, Napoleon Dynamite is a modish exercise in anti-cool. Still, a strong debut for all its young talents.

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One-of-a-kind high school comedy for the family.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Napoleon's climactic spaz-out dance is more than just a goofy gag. It's a payoff to a great buddy-system comedy and the idea that it's not high school's dreams and regrets that last, but the sometimes-bizarre friendships.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

too odd to dismiss and often truly funny

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Napoleon Dynamite may not even be friggin' sweet, but it does have skills. [Blu-ray]

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The characters are all weird and nothing much happens in Napoleon Dynamite, yet this droll and understated geek-comedy zings with truth.

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For most of its length this delivers a steady stream of uncomfortable gut laughs.

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If you have an indie film sense of humor -- and those of you who have it know what I mean -- you'll probably enjoy this flick.

| Original Score: 3/4

It's a cast of brilliant caricatures, and as such recalls the films of Wes Anderson.

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Seething with teen-angst irritability and an obstinate blind ignorance to just how much of an outcast he is, Napoleon Dynamite may be the biggest dork in the history of high school movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

As long as you don't mind making fun of the afflicted, there are some killer comic moments.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Delights in deadpan %u2013 celebrates nerd. And is a testament that beauty can be found everywhere. A charming, albeit quite odd cinematic piece. Harold and Maude -lite.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

I began to appreciate the neat reversals of expectations, slow pace and serene non sequiturs of the plot, the film's smart approach towards teen alienation, ludicrous ambition and impossible dreams.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Napoleon Dynamite may be forcefully weird and intermittently humorous, and you might not know what the heck to make of it, but there's nothing shocking about its screenplay.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Napoleon Dynamite isn't exactly the year's funniest film, but it does make for a memorable experience that can be enjoyed over and over again.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

A Roschach test of viewer empathy… while I respect the concerns of those who find the movie cruel, I have to side with those who find it ultimately endearing.

Full Review | Original Score: B

É recheado de estereótipos dos mais ofensivos, mas torna-se agradável e divertido graças ao apelo de seu personagem-título.

| Original Score: 4/5

It's honestly kinda sweet and moving -- the blissed-out celebration of the lurking outcast inside all of us.

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What is touching, however, and perhaps the film's central theme, is the strength, however strangely expressed, of the friendship between Napoleon, Deb and Pedro.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10