Napoleon Dynamite

the first 80 minutes of this were not worthy of the last 10 minutes. the dance scene and the credits scene are absolutely brilliant but the rest of it was just not it. i get how it might work for people but i just didn’t really find it funny, and the style they used to try to make it funny makes it painful and stilted if you don’t laugh at the awkwardness. if it was just napoleon helping pedro to win the election it probably would have been better, but instead we just got an hour of mostly unfunny scenes that just felt like wasted time. a bit of shame because i really thought i’d love this. 3/10