Great movie!
Too many classic lines to quote, but speaking of the wedding scene I like the pained look on Lafawnduh’s brother as she says “I do”.
“Here is a wild horse I tamed for you…” The way he rides in on it, man, just freaking hilarious.
One of my new favorite scenes (just watched it last night, it’s one of the deleted ones) is the kickball scene.
Man, that is some great trash talk!
“Hey Don! Did you crap in your bed last night?”
A trash talk exchange that was followed up by Napoleon’s patented “bitch-slap and run” technique. 
A large number of friends from two different peer groups are totally into this movie.
Spooky.
My sister got it for me for Christmas (I didn’t even ask for it, apparently my incessant quotes tipped her off), and I watched it with my dad. After a half hour or so, he turned to me and asked, “Why do you find this funny?” He was quite serious about the question, too; he honestly did not understand it at all. Shortly after that he went to take a nap.
:: Napolean stands behind makeshift ramp. Pedro rides in from offscreen, makes a tiny jump ::
“You jumped like three feet!” *
:: Pedro stands behind ramp. Napolean rides in from offscreen, hits ramp, ramp collapses, Napolean goes flying ::
:: LtningBug rolls on floor laughing his fool rear end off ::
One of the deleted scenes:
“They must have been, like, holy nachos or something, because after I ate them, I felt much better.”
Also, apparently, there are different special features on each side of the disk, so make sure you watch them all!
- This quote is most likely not entirely correct. It definitely involved “three feet” though.
I forgot about the holy nachos thing. Funny stuff!
I asked some people at work if they had seen this movie. Two people had seen it and said they hated it! They are dead to me now. Actually, they couldn’t believe that I watched it sober and found it hilarious.
Count me in as another huge fan. I also agree that it strangely gets funnier the more you watch it. This is also a timely thread for me, as I walked into work this morning to find a “Liger” drawn on the dry erase board. Cracked me up.
“Of course you know I’m training to be a cage fighter.”
“You got like three feet of air that time.”
“Just follow your heart. That’s what I do.”
“Don’t be jealous because I’ve been talking to babes on the internet all day.”
Going into this movie I wasn’t expecting much, but boy was I wrong! This instantly become a classic within my circle of friends and it’s at the top of my To Buy DVD List.
My friends and I can’t stop doing Napoleon’s mouth breathing sigh of utter disgust over the phone… UHHHHHHHhhhhh. So many great lines.
“Maybe I’ll build her a cake or something.”
“Pedro offers you his protection.”
I also loved a lot of the completely random scenes… like when Napoleon finds a sai on the shelf at the local thrift store or the time machine scene, which nearly had me in tears.
I especially loved Uncle Rico’s response to Napoleon saying “this thing doesn’t work”
“grunt Well I could have told you that”
This movie probably did try consciously to be a cult movie, which I guess is (or should be) against the rules. 
I don’t buy that it was celebrating geeks. I thought it wasn’t celebrating them or just mocking them, it came down somewhere in between with examples of both. Nothing wrong with that at all. If I had to judge, I think it came down more on the mocking side. That made Kip and LaFawnduh’s relationship stick out in some weird ways because it deviated from that tone, which isn’t altogether bad. I thought the extra wedding scene was the funniest in the whole movie.
Overall I thought the movie was uneven. Sometimes it tried a little too hard to be quotable and to strive for that oblivious, accidental funny that’s so popular these days. It succeeded sometimes, but there were some flat stretches. The sucesses were very, very funny. I don’t usually laugh out loud at movies when I’m watching them alone, especially late at night, but I did laugh aloud at this a couple of times.
I thought the movie was realistic in it’s portrayal of the characters and didn’t venture down the typical sterotypes seen in so many movies.
Examples:
Don. Plays the part of the jock. He wasn’t a complete ass. They could have showed him doing mean things to the others or ridiculing them. A lot of the time they just showed him shaking his head at them like “whatever”.
He even looked like a dork himself when he was dancing during Summer’s skit.
Uncle Rico. I expected the movie to turn cheap and they’d portray him as a sleeze who was trying to hit on Deb or Summer. But, he stuck in character and was just trying to make some money as the “salesman” he thought he was.
Napoleon and Deb. Instead of forcing the “romance” on us like most movies, they subtely had them become “friends” by the end of the movie.
I thought the film stayed honest about how school really is. Not how the movies want you to think it is. There was never a Hollywood moment of ‘at the end Napoleon is no longer a geek and everyone loves him’, or ‘Deb is now the hot girl at the school’, or ‘life has changed at school, geeks are loved and the popular kids are now hated’.
By the end of the film, everyone is who they were at the beginning, but a few have just become friends. No hollywood revelations.
Really? I just watched the movie for the first (and last) time last night and disagree. The sudden nerve to get out and do the big dance that gets the underdog to be class president and the whole school to go nuts? Might as well be paging John Hughes to help with the soundtrack.
But Napoleon had balls. It wasn’t some breakthrough for him to go and do something ostentatious. He wasn’t shy with girls, he wasn’t afraid to stand up to Uncle Rico, and he didn’t really put up with being picked on.
I love this movie, and I tried to start a “quotes” thread in honor of the Napoleon Dynamite DVD release, but the response was depressing. Thanks, everyone! I really thought more people had seen this movie in the theater, but I guess that was way wrong. It sounds like most everyone is a DVD fan. Losers! Oh yeah, I’m bitter. “Peace out.”
Yes! You pegged my exact favorite line in the movie. Lisa, how *you *doin??
I and my whole peer group LOVE this movie and saw it multiple times. It’s weird how it just really rubs some folk the wrong way.
I have a co-worker who is from Idaho and he says that this is exactly the way things are. In fact, he had a rude awakening of sorts when he first left Idaho b/c he hadn’t realized how different the rest of the country was. I initially had the same reservations about the movie (well, at least just this part). He said it was totally believeable, that the quality of the skit greatly influences who gets the vote (apparently Idahoans take the vote very seriously). Overall, I thought it was great. I disagree that it was “trying” to be too hard to be a cult classic. It didn’t pander to anyone or anything, and stayed true to its, albeit awkward and sometimes unlikeable, characters.
I see you’re drinking 1%. Is that 'cause you think you’re fat? 'Cause you’re not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to.
Creepiest scene: Uncle Rico going into grandma’s house … and not coming out. What could be taking so long? <shudder> :eek:
Hey…I got your one-piece set right here…
Hunh, Well, color me wrong and a little creeped about Idaho now.
For you quote fans, here’s a link with immediate soundbite gratifications.