Napolean... DY-NO- MITE!!

Simple humor, odd characters, and flimsy plot make Napolean Dynamite an oddly
hilarious movie about nothing.  And nothing seems to work- Seinfeld did it for 9 or 10 years and it worked for them...

There is no real story here other than the fact that the movie is entertaining like
reality TV.  You can't help watching it because it is so bizarre. 
An independent film, written and directed by two BYU graduates of Radio, Television
and Film- it happens to be one of the best movies I have seen all year.
Uncle Rico has a Pancharrelli-esque feel about him, he is trapped in the past
longing to go back in time and become the starting football player he should have
been.

Then there is Napolean Dynamite's brother Kip- 32 years old, dating a woman online
named Lafawnduh- a hot older sexy black woman that normally wouldn't give a second
glance, but she is crazy about him and it is irnonic and funny and you keep thinking
that something is going to happen and that she will dump him- but she doesn't.
Pedro is Napolean's best friend.  He has a cool bike and he is Spanish and odd and
very un-emotional.  There are a number of funny moments with Pedro but my favorite
is when he creates a pinata that looks like his rival for class president.  You get
to see a group of Mexican's whack the crap out of the pinata and it is hilarious.
Napolean Dyanamite the star of the show is odd, and suprisingly secure ih himself,
or oblivious to the fact that he is a super-loser by most high school standards.  He
is abrupt and simple, and has really bad hair, but he is very likeable and you want him to succeed, you want him to be accepted, you want people to be nice to him.

This movie is so different in that it never really stresses one extreme or another- Napolean is never really picked on too much or as much as you would expect.  Then there is Pedro, no one ever says anything to Pedro, he just seems to be invisible to everyone else but Napolean.

There is also a love interest, as there always is, and has to be in any great movie- and she is great, but I can't remember her name...

Uncle Rico is almost slimy, you think that he is going to be a real creep, but then he turns out to be just sort-of creepy, but he isn't a pedophile, or womanizer, he is just a little goofy and weird.
The whole movie is like that- you are on the edge of your seat thinking that something is going to happen that doesn't.  Thinking that Napolean is going to break down and cry, or get beat up, but he doesn't... and that's what makes it great. Unpredictablity, packaged nice and neatly without beautiful people, or cussing, or special effects- I give it 4 out of 5 stars.