Film Summary DCCVI (Napoleon Dynamite)

Wow Napoleon Dynamite sure is trendy right now.
And buy trendy, I mean. Five or six people have brought it up in the last 4 months, but that's five or six more people I then I've seen in the last 15 years, so as far as I'm concerned it's relevant again, if only for a moment.

It's a very dry movie that occasionally make you laugh.
And it's not one of those gut-wrenching laughs. It's one of those little ''ha'' laughs you do when you hear somebody make an amusing joke or see something that catches you off-guard but for a moment.

I watched this flick about a week ago and almost everything is drained out of my head. Re-watching it I was baffled by the amount of material I had forgotten that existed when I first saw it over 15 years ago.
Like the entire love subplot.
It just felt like it was bringing the film to a halt while we were waiting for something more interesting to happen. Like Napoleon trying to help his friend become School president or just sitting around with his, brother? Uncle?? Whoever the heck that family member was that keeps talking to a mysterious lady on the internet.
That whole subplot has more payoff than the entirety of Napoleon's affairs.

You know the weird thing about Napoleon is that in real life he would be a lot more popular. Like he'd still be seen as this awkward and people might make fun of him. But he's way too confident to be at the bottom of any sort of school hierarchy.
Or at the very least that's how he be seen in any school I remember going to. Then again there wasn't really a popularity clique when I went to school either.
It was just small groups of awkward losers all banding together.

I've got to give it to John heater. He did a fantastic job. He's awkward dialogue, strange mannerisms where really spot-on.
It turned what would have been a forgotten film into something that still quoted to this day.
Even if people only remember about 5% of the film most of that's just a dance the end.
Which it turns out was a lot more impressive than when I remember watching it the first time.

I'm not sure I'd want to recommend this film to that many people. It's got some standout moments to be sure. Like when the one character with the internet dating plot line meets his internet date for the first time or anything having to do with the school elections. But a fair bit of the movie is just kind of dry and a surprising amount of it doesn't even have Napoleon in it.
Maybe I'm just biased because his uncle Russo (whatever that man's name was) is absolutely repulsive to me.
He was kind of fun in a very pathetic manner, but you got real old real quick.

It's a good film to put on with a small group of friends. Especially if you're not paying too much attention.
You can have a casual conversation about whatever and then watch the five or six legitimately interesting parts when they pop up.
Like an old man shooting a cow in front of a bus load of kids or Napoleon getting a ride to the prom by a semi stereotypical ''Mexican'' gang and they're souped up hydraulic car.