Napoleon Dynamite

I have to say that watching this is a bit of an odd affair. The actors are generally obviously amateurs, the editing and script are a little lose, and the story is vague, but something about it is rather charming, and you fall in love with the characters. Maybe it's watching Pedro advance his political career by hanging up pinatas of the competition, or watching Napoleon correctly identify the pollutants in different samples of milk, or maybe it's seeing the characters grow up, just a tiny bit, during the hour and a half that you're with them.
As has been consistently, and belabouredly, mentioned in just about every other review or treatment of this film, Napoleon is so socially inept that he doesn't even realize how big of a geek he is. But the big difference here, as opposed to most other teen comedies, is that it doesn't make him vulnerable as a person. Plus, he has redeeming qualities that he isn't even aware redeem him. Like his suit. The idea is that it's hideous, but his suit is, at the same time and in the same nature, so tight that I couldn't help but envy him.

Total: 87