Not that funny, not that clever. Laughed only once. Disjointed, boring story.

Man, this movie sucked! The only reason that people(Dorks!) thought this was funny was because of the main character's awkwardness, that's it! The score equals the amount of funny parts in the movie. It's boring, it's stupid, it's like watching somebody live, and the guy doesn't even have an interesting life, worst comedy of the year. Go see Shaun of The Dead, geeks!

Like all of its loser main characters, this film is just lame and awkward. Makes no attempt to expand upon the one-dimensionality of the cardboard-cutout characters, instead just asking us to "laugh" at them for being what the film says they are--just dorks without depth or any semblance of growth during the film's span. Really quite pointless when you think about it. I can't believe people really like this boring, condescending crap.… Expand

I just don't understand all the hype. I didn't laugh once.

This was absolutely one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I paid money to rent it and turned it off after 25 minutes. In that time I didn't even crack a smile. I guess I am too old for this or something.

This movie was boring and horrible. I sat through the movie waiting for it to end, and even then, i wanted to shoot myself, and then the TV.

Napoleon Dynamite is definitely not my kind of comedy. As Roger Ebert called it "studied stupidity," the film just shows how stupid one is. Or awkward. Or both, really. Which, not being American, does not resonate with me at all. Yes, maybe many Americans feel that way about themselves, but god - this was just a horrible film! It is one of those films that does not really have a point to itself, I feel. Maybe it does, but the entire experience totally goes passed me. I could not even finish it all the way, quite frankly. I could feel my IQ fall with every minute... Definitely would avoid this by all means.… Expand

How this movie is getting such high praise from the average people around here is beyond me. It was a film without a heart, a point, or even very many laughs. Its characters were all under-developed cartoons. It felt vaguely condescending, and its laughs relied just on quirkiness for quirkiness' sake. For movies that actually take the nerdy underdogs out there seriously, or that are made with artistry or a point, see Rushmore or Ghost World. If not, go waste your time and money on the vacuous Napoleon Dynamite. … Expand

This is the 4th movie I've walked out of in my life. The main character, who just came off as simply retarded jerk, did not have a single likeable quality. No one in real life would ever act like any of these characters.

Horrible. waste of 2 hours.

Worst movie I have ever seen.

There are very few comedies that can pass off to any audience without any intelligence, wit, or anything that generally makes up good humor. This is one of those "comedies".

This movie was one of the most unsatisfying that I've ever seen. Napoleon Dynamite is horrible. Absolutely not funny, not even stupid-funny. I don't recall having ever disliked a movie this much.

Absolutely horrible, boring, plotless, so lame I just turned it off.

This movie was the most retarded movie ever! I mean only geeks would watch this.

About as funny as hearing 13 year olds quote this movie.

First of all, i feel sorry for Leviticus A, he wasted 9 dollars on it, i only wasted 6. This movie, if you could call it one, had no plot what-so-ever. Only movie that i seriously considered walking out of. All of you that gave it a 10 and have not legitimate reasons why just proves how stupid people are. Think about what you are laughing at, a character who has no friends and looks and acts like a loser. I am saddened that i didnt walk out of this movie, for I am now a lot stupider after seeing it. I have lost respect for many of my friends who actually found this movie funny. This movie is more just a 90 minute joke about the stupidity of the main character Napoleon Dynamite. The only way that i could actually see this movie again is if I was stoned or drunk. I pity all of you that enjoyed this film. I also know that just because Sundance thought it was a good movie DOESN'T make the flick good. … Expand

This movie sucked, Im a geek and I despised it not because I was offended but it just wansnt funny. Any movie the whole shop class likes cant b a good one.

There was a time when a movie was made with a purpose (usually anti-pop culture) and through the process of some strange evolution, became a "cult classic." But now movies are being packaged and produced as cult classics ready for consumption, and by MTV, no less. Something about this movie says that while the fimmakers didn't know how to be funny, they sure knew how to be weird, and that would suffice.… Expand

I don't see how it's possible to 'get' this movie. The entire film seems to be based around one character idea... and it gets boring after about 5 minutes. Trevor L... "quite possibly the funniest movie of all time" ...wow.. the mind boggles! Uninteresting characters, a pathetic plot, I just didn't care what happened at the end. Rubbish... I think I also 'hate this film with my entire soul.… Expand

I tried to understand why ANYONE would find this movie entertaining. One thing I noticed in reading the positive reviews was that most of them have numerous misspellings and grammatical errors ( as would be in the lower intellect segment of society). Hence the good reviews.

Pure and utter crap. And thats putting it mildly. I know everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but definitely if you liked this movie you are stupid...end of story.

Bah. Completely mistakes wierdness for humor. The makers thought that if they simply had their characters do and say odd, awkward things, the laughs would roll in. They don't. I was fighting the urge to walk out the entire time through.

This movie was dull, and boring. There was no plot at all. It was the least funniest movie I have ever seen. There is no likable character in this movie!

This movie was boring and repetitive. I am so sick of everyone making such a big deal of it. It was repetitive and it's only good lines were boring. What the heck is all the fuss about??

This movie totally sucked. I hated it. Boo! Boo! Worse than...everything. I would rather eat brussels sprouts.

Horribly bad movie

One of perhaps 2 films that I could not watch because I hated the characters so much - perhaps the last half hour is good, but I doubt it because no-one in this vile piece of work is remotely likeable.

The worst movie I have ever seen. The acting and humor sucked. The humor just did not make sense, and if it was suppose to be, 'so stupid it was funny,' kind of style, it did not appeal to me. I could expect better acting from a highschool drama class. The ideal movie if you are still in highschool

I really dont see where they hype comes from. Honestly. Way overhyped.

Why do poeple like this movie??? I fell asleep 3 times trying to watch it and didn't smile once. I'm sorry Napoleon fans, but this movie is worse than Epic Movie, and thats saying something.

Why do tedious movies about horrible high school experiences have such appeal to critics?

Hello, writing? and what are these 'actors' looking at? camera shyness may be 'cute' for a few minutes but an entire feature-length? tell me how it ends, I have better things to do.

REALLY disappointing. I thought about walking out of this movie, as well. Somehow, the last 20 minutes help the movie redeem itself. Nevertheless, it did not live up to the hype.

Seeing this movie was probably the biggest waste of 90 minutes and nine dollars in my life, thanks to this movie all of my friends are always quoting lines from the movie. everyone who walked out of the theatre of this movie got a little bit stupider.

Wes Anderson minus the love, Solondz minus the message, the Farrelly brothers minus any funny jokes about turds.

i think this film is sad and disturbing in many senses...especially how everyone finds it very funny and laugh at the character like this, and if this really is some autobiography, i will find this even more disturbing.. it just feels really sad to imagine, what if this character is real? and after u walk out of the cinema, his life would carry on in the way that everyone found "funny" for 1 and a half hours?… Expand

I hated this movie. I really dont get why people think this is funny. It has no story line. I spent half the time trying to figure out what was going on. There was only one funny moment in this whole movie and that is when Napoleon goes over the jump on the bike. Other than that it is just a stupid movie.

Horrible. It was highly recommended by someone I respect so I hung around waiting for it to turnaround -- it never happened. I considered walking out about halfway through. I should have. Go see "rushmore", at least that geek wasn't completely braindead.

Clearly this movie is polarizing, and I have to say I didn't like it. The nerdiness was played very well, so I'll give it a 2 instead of a zero. However, that's like giving a trash an award for stinking properly. I just didn't like it. It was depressing in much the same way as a Jerry Springer show is: stupid people being stupid. The movie had one good scene it it (stage dancing) and that was it. I was really dissapointed.… Expand

I honestly think the government is testing a new form of mind control w/ this movie. Seriously, they created the Worst movie they could possibly think of and implanted a trigger message somewhere in the media that people must love this movie and its the greatest thing theyve ever seen. Thank goodness I missed the trigger.

Udderly SLOW and pointless. Had a few laughs, sure, but this movie really isn't a BLOCKBUSTER COMEDY as they're making it out to be. The second I realized it was an MTV film, I knew it was doomed.

This was one of the most boring, plotless movies I have ever seen. It was the biggest waste of 2 hours. I really wanted to stop in the middle, but I couldn't help to hope that there will be something else at the end. Something that would explain the reason behind all the excitement about this movie. It was one of the biggest disappointments I had experienced in movies. If you never seen this movie and looking through reviews to decide if you should watch it or not, please spare two hours of your life and don't watch it.… Expand

Take a Wes Anderson movie, then cut the guts out of it and make it very, very stupid. A useless pile of affectation and hipster wannabe-ness jammed into forced, wobbly irony. If you think the title (stolen from Elvis Costello, no matter what the hack director claims) is the funniest thing in the world, you'll be heaven. If you don't - or are allowed outside your residence without a helmet on - then you probably are gonna want to pass.… Expand

This movie is unique all right...I really don't see much point to it. You spend the whole movie laughing at and/or feeling sorry for these pathetic characters only someone who was ridiculed as a kid could create! And the most annoying thing is how many MSN screen names and quotes came out of this movie. I have heard WAY too many people call their friends "fat lards" or saying "gosh, you idiot". I laughed maybe 3 or 4 times during the whole movie which picked my rating up from a 0 to a 3.… Expand

This movie had a few laughs in it, but for the most part was just painful and disgusting to watch. The whole thing with the tater tots just grossed me out, how is that funny? I couldn't even finish this movie. It is deffinalty clear to me though, looking through these other reviews, that you either love it or hate it.

I guess if I were 16 or younger I might find this film funny and/or worthwhile, but alas I'm not. If you think MTV is clever, you could like this film. Vote for not seeing this film.

About 2 or three times this movie made me laugh... other then taht i wanted to throw the dvd out the window, its a stupid movie and thats coming from someone who loves adam sandler movies. This pushes stupidity beyond everything this seems like it was made for about a thousand dollars and by 12 year olds. Dont watch this movie if your a teenager or older.

Worst movie I have ever seen. Are you nuts, I can't believe people actually liked this. Whoever voted this a great movie at Sundance was high.

It couldn't be any worse

A complete and utter waste of 86 minutes of my life.

Worst movie I have seen in a long time. Bad rip off of "Welcome to the Dollhouse."

This movie was so bad I couldn't even finish watching it. It was soooooo boring!! Anyways, this seems to be a very polarizing movie. Everyone who sees it either loves it or hates it, a phenomenon very rarely seen from a movie. If I were you I would watch it because you might just like it like some of my more neanderthal friends.

Ehh, where to start. First off, by saying, this movie was waaaay overrated. It is really boring. There are like two or three kind of funny parts. The dancing part wasn't even funny. I could honestly watch that part with a straight face.

A pain to watch. The character of napoleon, the dorky one-dimensional geek, is stretched out to the level of absurd frustration. You keep waiting for something significant to happen, but it never does. In a world overflowing with lovable geeks, it is hard to comprehend why the main character is such a repugnant, cringe-worthy freak. In short, confused and pretentious trash. Aiming too high with an unloaded and worthless gun.… Expand

Absolutely brainless, souless hipster garbage. a wes andersen goes american eagle hack job with no real jokes, personality, interesting characters or redeeming qualities. what we get instead is enough "irony" and awkward 80's geek-chique to make revenge of the nerds look like casablance. you don't always have to do what mtv tells you. this film is a waste.

This movie is not a comedy. One wold assume for a movie to be classified as a comedy it would have to generate at least ONE laugh throughout it's entire boredom. If you did laugh at this you must have been using some illegal substance to change your environment into an all humor universe! Get into reality and find actual comedic movies. Try Mel Brooks, Woodie Allen, Cohen Brothers etc, etc...

Napoleon Dynamite is a "unique" comedy. However, its good ends at its uniqueness. The actual "funny" moments are almost always based around phyisical gestures rather than actual jokes or words. In other words, you wont find many spots to laugh out loud because these moments are short lived. The movie ending left me wondering where all of the acclaim i had heard had come from. Not the funniest movie I have seen.… Expand

The movie had a few moments of chuckles but it was because I wanted to laugh and took every minute opportunity to do so. The humor seems so low and does not aspire to rise beyond that (give it credit for its integrity). The characters are mainly one dimensional (Pedro showed a little vulnerability and that stood out in the shallowness of the others). The acting was deadpan to a fault (characters were caricatures, not people). Overall, I am disappointed but I can understand how most of my middle school students enjoy it - it really is on their level. Destined to be a phenomena that burns bright but quickly forgotten with hindsight.… Expand

This movie had no visible plot, and the charactors were presented in such a way that they were nearly impossible to like. It was set in 2004, though the clothes and sets made you think that they were going for the mid-seventies look. Few of the actors looked as though they were in high school, and did not show any emotion. Almost all highschoolers today are far more interested in life than Napolean and Pedro, who did not show emotion for anything at all. I must admit, though, that his dance solo totally rocked. … Expand

Stupidest movie i've ever seen.

What this movie lacked in plot it made up for in quality. So in an essence, since there was no plot, there was no quality. This movie is nothing short of the biggest waste of time I have ever encountered in my entire life. The bass joke was overhyped and the milk joke gave me a chuckle. Other than that I'd call this film a disaster in an LCD screen.

This is the worst movies I have ever seen. There was no story line. The only people who would like this are people with a 1.0 grade point adverage.

The movie starts out slow, and really never picks up. There are a few hilarious scenes, but they are few and far between. In general, the humor in this one is pretty dry, but some people are into that sort of thing.

Pure forced hip irony. It has 2 laughs and that's why it gets a 2.

The short this movie was based on may not have been a complete waste of time but I resented the loss of 90 minutes (plus the hour in line) I spent watching this. I figured this kind of thing would appeal to mormons but am disappointed to see good reviews outside of Utah/Idaho.

It was so bad, one of the worst movies i have ever seen. Anyone who likes this movie should be shot.

Despite being an 'eccentric' movie, it contains all the usual highschool gags. food, sign language, nerds, mexicans...awful. really has no story, and no that isnt why movies are funny. No different than any other mtv related article.

This movie was the worse movie I have ever seen the only reason why people like it is because critics like it but guess what DONT LISTEN TO THEM this movie has no point to it and just stinks it is the worse 90 mins of my life when ever a critic says a movie is good its horrible but whenever they dis like a movie it is a good movie take are we there yet for example it is a awesome movie but critics hate open water was a horrible movie critics loved it well anyway.… Expand

The only funny part was the mexican guy, and the part were he dances. And people remember VOTE PEDRO!

Its original and it is a little funny but really the entire film is just so stupid that I simply can not stand it. I dont understand how people find this film any good.

Just a terrible movie.To say that it's deliberately stupid is an understatement.The characters are incomprehensibly asinine and incredibly boring.There isn't one believable moment in the whole movie.The whole experience was shockingly mind-numbing and the movie, painfully unfunny.Usually I tend to enjoy movies about eccentrics and/or social outsiders but this was horrible.It just bored me terribly and didn't make me laugh whatsoever.I hated it!â… Expand