Twentieth century Fox Home video, comes from the version of one of the most popular films in decades Napolean Dynamite. This is the new mini UMD (universal media disc) format for the PlayStation Portable (PSP).
Napolean Dynamite Star: Jon Heder, Jon Gries, & MoreDirector: Jared HessEncoding: region 1 (United States and Canada) rated: PGStudio: twentieth century Fox Home video
As deadpan comedy, Napoleon Dynamite is in a class all their own. Played by John Heder, the title character is proposed (in the words of the Critic Roger Ebert) "the kind of nerd other nerds to avoid" dweeb mouth breathing with a mangy nest of orange hair and clumsy features, by a permanent state of half-conscious depression. He lives in Preston, Idaho (former home of 24-year-old Director Jared Hess) with thrill seeking Grandma and 32-year-old brother and his time at high school consist mainly of, abused or ignored by indifferent classmates. Napoleon's sad sack offers history not the crushing, passionate humor of welcome to the Dollhouse, because Hess (who almost cheap screenplay with his wife, Jerusha wrote) has a fear to rub axe-ridden. Instead, the comedy (which in a sticky universe of the battered rural suburb) is so low that some may find it difficult to laugh, while others (i.e. those, the Napoleon superior feel) may enjoy at Napoleon's expense. The result of a curiously uneven is left out sometimes, but hampered by his own sense of affectionate ridicule. An audience at the Sundance Film Festival, Napoleon Dynamite favorite may not quite endearing, but it is definitely unique. -Jeff Shannon
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Personally Napolean is dynamite, one of those movies where you receive, or not. A lot of people, especially in the MTV crowd is one of the best movies in a long time. For others it is not worth the $5. If you grew up in a small town or outside the city, you should enjoy Napolean Dynamite - it is fun at a lot of things that we thought, "cool" back in the day.
About Sony PSP UMD discs: Universal media disc (UMD) are playable only in the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) and are not compatible with contemporary DVD player. The UMD is an optical newly developed compact, high capacity format, which can store up to 1.8 GB of digital data on a 60 mm disc or an entire movie on a single UMD video. Movies on UMD are in 16: 9-widescreen aspect ratio and encoded advanced AVC compression, which offers a high level of image quality.
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Napolean Dynamite UMD movie for PlayStation Portable review
Reviewer: Robert W. Moore (Chicago, IL United States) - I love independent films, but the truth is that you have some of them to cut a little slack because of their lack of resources. But not NAPOLEON DYNAMITE. See, which was one of the most beautiful, unexpected delights in a film, I had in a long, long time. The most high school comedies, which are dealing with school nerds a bit as a cheater, as the nerds never really so nerdy like that, we all knew or (or perhaps were) in high school. My favorite TV show is BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, but I could never really buy the ultra-cute Alyson Hannigan as a school nerd. But not as Napoleon Dynamite, his friend Pedro, or deb, which reserved and shy girl has he an eye on.
Napoleon's name is white, that in the 1980s years he explains, would dynamite no longer with Elvis Costello called, but instead as Napoleon, under which name he published what may have been his last major album BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE no explanation from, but all Elvis Costello fan. The producers have declared independent that they knew, and chose the name without reference to Elvis Costello. This is of course completely absurd, as credible, how someone to make a movie with the main character with the name Anna Karenina but say ignorant, that Tolstoy had a character with this name.
The film shows the private hell, life of Napoleon Dynamite, a hopelessly outsider at Preston is incapable of high school in Idaho, seemingly without any friends at all until he is on a new pupil of the Spaniard Pedro, hits to speak which is obviously not in the position, each word with more than one syllable or smiling (up to the end of the film) is. Napoleon makes cool nerds look. School is this hell for Napoleon, it seems quite normal for a child as he is him in the hallway, Bodyslam against his locker. It simply not is that he no idea he is cursed; He says not only is it unwrapped things Tater Tots in the Pocket in order, that, for snacking on later, it is inevitable that it be destroyed another child in his pocket when he refuses to share.
Napoleon's life is terrible in school, it's so bad at home. We are helpless the whereabouts or the fate of his parents, but his brother Slacker and equally nerdy companions nor solace offers and with his grandmother in an ATV sand dune accident injured his uncle Rico, a fortyish Peter Pan, which is so urgent, longing for 1982, that he ordered a House time machine over the Internet, travel, so on his own way as Napoleon or his brother Kip pathetic.
Plot is not really important in the film; the process which is Napoleon's life. This would easily have a terrible film, but Director Jared Hess (born, by the way, Preston, Idaho), wrote the screenplay with his wife Jerusha, shows a deft touch to keep things interesting and funny, instead just stupid. Are all excellent, but for the most part in the vicinity of unknown. I know of only two artists, with which he would have a being Diedrich Bader, who perhaps more remarkably was neighbour, in a number of roles over the years, in OFFICE SPACE as the protagonist next door conversations through the wall. Here, he has a hysterical stint as absurd martial arts teacher. I knew Tina Majorino, who was in a number of films over the years, primarily as a child. You doing a good job as Deb, although their role (as Napoleon) a bit of a fraud on the public. They make it up to be as unattractive as possible if it in fact is a Cutie, as the improved hair-do at the end of the film. The cheat with Napoleon is the fact, that he... well, I don't want to spoil things. Let's just say that he is at the end of the film, not the helpless nerd we imagine. I especially enjoyed Efren Ramirez as monosyllabic Pedro. He underplays his role to the point of parody.
I recommend very, that this film. NAPOLEON DYNAMITE is a thoroughly unique, fun and funny, this is not quite like anything I've seen. One could say that it is no different from a male-oriented version of welcome to THE DOLLHOUSE in the middle of the rural Idaho.
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