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Napoleon Dynamite


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Variety
There are lots of laughs for those who enjoy the sight of bottom dwellers doing stupid things that make them look even more ...
Film Threat
Each actor perfectly compliments the Hess's original brand of humor that keep steady giggles bubbling from the audience, ins...
Rolling Stone
You'll laugh till it hurts.
ReelViews
With a low-key sense of humor and without the slightest whiff of sentimentality, Hess delivers a film about geeks that makes...
Entertainment Weekly
The 2004 Sundance crowd-pleaser has got the tableaux suitable for Diane Arbus photos down pat, but no real interest in the p...
Village Voice
An epic, magisterially observed pastiche on all-American geekhood, flooring the competition with a petulant shove.
Los Angeles Times
It's a simple collection of sight gags and pratfalls that mines the overly familiar turf of awkward adolescence without brin...
USA Today
In Fourth of July terms, its pop is less dynamite than firecracker.
The New York Times
A small-scale, deadpan film.
New York Post
A little movie with a lot of heart and a lot of laughs.
Slate
Too low-wattage to be a true nerd anthem, but it's charming in retrospect, when you're freed from the narcoleptic pace to th...
Chicago Tribune
This is the sort of Sundance audience hit that doesn't necessarily travel.
Richard Roeper
I'm cracking up already thinking about that uncle again, who is obsessed with 1982.
Washington Post
One of the most winning movie creations in years.
Washington Post
laughed. And I laughed primarily over Heder's hilarious performance.
Chicago Sun-Times
There is a kind of studied stupidity that sometimes passes as humor, and Jared Hess' Napoleon Dynamite pushes it as far as i...
The Boston Globe
An inspired dead-end stunt that keeps delivering snarky laughs far longer than it has any right to.
San Francisco Chronicle
There's no cohesive story, just a series of opportunities for the title character to strut his gawky stuff.
Premiere
Funny enough that I'll refrain from describing the gags that made me laugh, lest I spoil them for you.
Houston Chronicles
Napoleon Dynamite may be forcefully weird and intermittently humorous, and you might not know what the heck to make of it, b...

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Partial Film Information

Director: Jared Hess
Writer: Jared Hess
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Cast: Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell

Release: June 11, 2004
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