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List Price: $34.98Amazon.com's Price: $22.99 You Save: $11.99 (34%)Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: Blu-ray
EAN: 0024543563594
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: February 03, 2009
Running Time: 89 minutes
Sales Rank: 8790
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
As deadpan comedies go, Napoleon Dynamite stands in a class all its own. Played by John Heder, the title character is (in the words of critic Roger Ebert) 'the kind of nerd other nerds avoid,' a mouth-breathing dweeb with a mangy nest of orange hair, and ungainly features that suggest a perpetual state of half-conscious depression. He lives in Preston, Idaho (former home of 24-year-old director Jared Hess) with his thrill-seeking grandma and 32-year-old brother, and his days at high school consist mostly of being abused or ignored by indifferent classmates. Napoleon's sad-sack story doesn't offer the scathing, impassioned humor of Welcome to the Dollhouse because Hess (who cowrote the nearly plotless screenplay with his wife, Jerusha) doesn't have an angst-ridden axe to grind. Instead, the comedy (which exists in a tacky universe of worn-out rural suburbia) is so low-key that some will find it difficult to laugh, while others (i.e., those who feel superior to Napoleon) will have plenty of fun at Napoleon's expense. The result is a curiously uneven film, hilarious at times, but hampered by its own sense of affectionate mockery. An audience favorite at the Sundance film festival, Napoleon Dynamite may not be entirely lovable, but it's definitely unique. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Loved and hated
Wow, blast to the past. Jon Feder in this movie reminds me a lot of one of my ex-colleagues (in a good way), which makes watching this quite strange. Napoleon's eccentricities are all so amazingly weird that by the time we get to the end we're really truly relived to see his transformation - and my jaw nearly dropped when I saw it achieved. Skits tied together don't always turn out well, but this little film sort of has what it takes to stretch out to full length. My own high school experience was ... Read More
Rating:  - 1.5 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:
Perhaps the dumbest movie to receive mainstream appreciation, Napoleon Dynamite not only features not plot but no humor--the audience is instead expected to laugh at constant repitions of the word "gosh" and Napoleon's uncle eating lots of steak...how funny.
Rating: - Napoleon
After watching this movie with my hubby this movie was a totally eye opener since we both have been trying to expand our family ...this movie helped me understand what teenager are going through today ...their struggles and whats on their mind ...and napoleon wow a handsome young man i hopr my are as handsome and polite as he is .....LOVEd IT
Rating: - It grows on you
I am a high school teacher, that being said, I decided on the last day of
school that as a treat we would watch a movie. I borrowed Napoleon Dynamite from my brothers vast DVD collection. I had no idea what the movie was about but my students told me it was funny. I looked it up on IMDB to see its rating. It is PG because of the word "piss" and a man selling breast enlargement pills. Pretty tame stuff in this day and age.
I watched it three times in one day. The first viewing I was ... Read More
Rating:  - not a comedy at all, but worth watching at least once
well, this movie was entertaning for me, meanwhile it was slow but not boring
if you are sick and tired of movies packed with special features, super heroes, and unrealisitic stories of wizards or aliens invading our planet, then this is the timne to give yourself a break and watch a movie of a nerd going to school in idaho
at least you can think this could really happen somewhere in real world,
If you haven't seen this movie yet, i would say give it a try, but ... Read More
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