I chuckled twice while watching this movie. They were chuckles, not laughs. Napoleon Dynamite is slow and boring. That's not what I was expecting from it or what I wanted from it. After hearing some people say that the humor is in the tone of the dialog and not the dialog itself, I -- being a film masochist, I guess -- watched it again hoping to gain newfound understanding of the content. Upon second viewing, I didn't laugh or chuckle. If anything the movie is depressing. It revolves around a group of throughly unlikable characters in not-so-believable situations. It also attempts some "white people acting black jokes" like they haven't been done before. Retreading such cliché material seriously undermines the "hip" style and angle that the movie, to a fault, seemed to be reaching for. Watching this movie was like listening to a joke without a punchline.
Review of Napoleon Dynamite
