Monday, February 21, 2005
That's for fucking with me !!
Finally rented Napolean Dynamite ...
OH MY GOD WHAT A WORTHLESS MOVIE !!
Not funny - not touching - not anything really except awkward and bad. The movie reminded me of Election a little bit at first ... except that Election was funny, witty, and satirical.
When Napolean and Deb's hands touched, I thought we were getting somewhere ... nope. Here's the problem with their romance -- one minute she hates him because she thinks he thinks her boobs are too small, next minute they're playing tetherball. I guess the dance routine made all the difference. Oh right, the same dance routine that won the election, gave the brother the courage to leave home, brought back Uncle Rico's girlfriend, and smoothed things over between the grandma and the llama. Seems a little too convenient for me.
Half the goddamn movie is the mexican kid staring into the camera with his eyes going in two different directions.
One weird and random turn of events I can buy -- but this movie had way too many: the grandma riding quads in the sand dunes, the uncle's fixation with 1982, the brother's whole scene, the self defense class, the brother's girlfriend (schwing), the time machine, the dance routine, etc. This is just silly -- a perambulating string of non sequiturs does not a movie make. If you can't write a story where one thing relates logically to the others, than it better be funny or excellent in some other way (which it wasn't).
Of course that's just my opinion.
Dolemite, on the other hand, THERE was a movie.
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