# Napoleon Dynamite.  "This is pretty much the best movie ever made."

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**Created:** [July 15, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/napoleon-dynamite-this-is-pretty-much-the-best-movie-ever-made/255325 "2004-07-15T21:27:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/napoleon-dynamite-this-is-pretty-much-the-best-movie-ever-made/255325/1 "2004-07-15T21:27:40Z")

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…well, perhaps that’s an overstatement, but [Napoleon Dynamite](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374900/) is at least the most enjoyable movie I’ve seen in several months. I saw it at the Playhouse 7 about a week ago. The audience seemed divided between “Giggling so hard I can’t breathe” and “Staring unamusedly at the screen” camps; boyfriend and I were members of the former. There seems to be a similar rift amongst critics.

Jon Heder’s performance really makes the movie. There isn’t much of a plot, more like a series of tangentially related [and some completely unrelated] scenes which all share the common bond of being awkward, quirky and hilarious.

Anyone else seen and enjoyed [or despised] this movie? It’s getting a wider release soon and I’ve actually started to see TV spots for it. I’m not sure how well it will do; it has a PG rating, but is definitely not for children; the humor is the type that would be appealing to a rather limited group of people, and the TV spots I’ve seen don’t really do it justice.

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/napoleon-dynamite-this-is-pretty-much-the-best-movie-ever-made/255325/2 "2004-07-15T21:40:51Z")

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