Wtf which actors were nearly or over 30!? Surely not Napoleon, Pedro or Deb-id have thought early 20s, no older than 24 or 25. You've kinda surprised me lol
@@teethgrinder83 Pedro was one of those. I looked it up & he was 31 when this movie came out while Napoleon was 28. Take Saved By The Bell for example, most of them outside of Dustin Diamond(RIP) where in their early 20’s by the time the show ended.
Like how Jonah Hill was 24 in Superbad playing a teenager. Only one year younger than Seth Rogan (25) and five years younger than Bill Hader (29) who played grown men. But Jonah looked like a teenager.
@@theguyfromwalgreens damn 31 and 28, that's pretty crazy-especially Pedro. I suppose that's movies for you, it's easy enough to make people look a bit younger or older than they are, still though I'm surprised lol I didn't really get a chance to watch saved by the bell over here in Scotland coz they decided to show it on weekdays just when I was getting ready for the school bus lol
I know the director’s not interested in doing the sequel to Napoleon Dynamite, but I would love to see a continuation or spin off to Kip Dynamite or maybe even Uncle RICO. We had a series yes, but it didn’t last very long and only consisted of 6 episodes.
Exactly, so he just had to make up stuff, like the scene of the farmer shooting the cow in front of the school bus full of children is a true anecdote from director Jared Hess' childhood
Having grown up only around 60 miles from where this was filmed, can confirm many people not only dressed like this in the early 2000's, but indeed wore fanny packs.
I had to go to a school around the place this was filmed. I spent about 6 months near the UT-ID border. When this movie debuted, it was like there was no escape from people fixated and saying quotes from it. I had to listen to, "Your mom goes to college!" at least 5 times a day for 3 months straight.
@@smittensamantha Yeah... when I try to explain to people what it was like where I grew up I have essentially fallen back to 'Look, Idaho pre-internet was basically 2-4 decades behind the rest of the world. You grew up in the 80's and 90's, I grew up in the 50's and 60's.'
Haha right?! As someone who grew up in a small farm town in northern utah not too far away from Preston I couldn’t help but feel annoyed at some of the sins. Like for small town farm towns, the rodeo and a new Deere tractor model is a big deal.
A guy named Preston defending a town named Preston....ding J/k I had the same thought. I lived in East Idaho for 5-6 years and been in more-or-less rural West Idaho for 7 or so years. Can confirm, one trip to rural Idaho and most of these sins go away.
As someone who went to a southern Idaho high school I can guarantee you that the new John Deer would in fact be big news for a noticeable chunk of the student body.
Im from northern Idaho, also big news in these small towns. Hell, it was the news of the decade when we got a Walmart up here. The radio wouldn’t stop talking about it for a good 2 months.
The randomness of this movie make it so great to me. Like kips chips getting more and more covered with cheese in every shot, the farmer shooting the cow and the kids screaming, the random gangbanger dudes in nowhere Idaho and so on. Can’t believe it’s already 16 years old. Still a classic I still watch once in a while.
"Why couldn't they set this movie in the 80s or 90s?" It's about Preston Idaho. They not scheduled to enter the 2000s until sometime in the next five years.
@@Cooz-h1l At this point, Idaho might well have more Mormons than Utah. As a former Idaho Mormon, I can say that west of Boise and and south of probably Moscow? All Mormons. And Preston is pretty famously on the Idaho/Utah Border
I kept hearing about this movie, and people quoting lines from it, so I finally bought the DVD a few years ago. I love it! It's now one of my all-time favorite comedies.
Wife was like that because I put it on her Ipod and she would go to sleep with it running. We both loved this film when it came out and still do. Hard to believe it is now 17 years later, sheesh (or as Napoleon would say...GOSH).
I was 8 months pregnant the first time I watched this and when Rico hit him on the bike with the steak, I swear I laughed so hard I thought I was going to go into labor
@@abetaylor3205 haha I live in Washington now and am planning on moving to Idaho soon. I travel there frequently and I find it to be a much more enjoyable place to be personally.
This movie was so good that when I first watched it I was high as a kite and didn't care for it, but the next time, when I was stone cold sober, it became my favorite movie, and the only movie I've ever bought just for me.
I was born in 2004, the year my mom graduated highschool and happen to be an Idaho native, so I can surely say that this is completely accurate and it is still like this in Idaho. Frozen in time but the potatoes make up for it ig.
The farmer killing the cow is actually killing the cow for napoleon’s family. Before grandma leaves she says they’re running low on steak and Lyle would be coming over. The farmer killing the cow is Lyle
Yes, but I can still understand CS point that in an empty field next to the road probably isn't the best place to kill the beef. Unless you were planning on butchering it in place, which should garner it a few more sins.
Lyle is a shitty farmer. 1st, you don't normally just shoot a cow in the head, especially one meant for consumption. 2nd he's shooting it in the middle of a field instead of in a barn or somewhere where he can process it.
When. Tell me one film that they sinned seriously. Please. I'll eat my shirt if you can find just ONE! everyone says they remember when bit no1 can give an example. Please direct me
@@chmchn I think your correct to a point that none of the reviews are strictly objective. I'm not sure if your saying that as a positive or negative. My point, is more to the contrast of the late 2000's compared to now. Much shorter reviews (2-3 min), more actual sins, and he pointed out those things (plot, timeline, dialog) that made no sense. Gratifying to see someone else noticed those things also. That's something a lot of movie review movie mistake/videos/channels/websites were not providing. Also no hah hah hah hah hah hah hah (fake laugh).
As someone who grew up in rural Idaho I can 100% confirm that student body elections included skits. I actually was elected activity manager in 7th grade after giving Pedro's speech and doing Napoleon's dance because of course.
Kips song at his wedding is one of my favorite scenes. "I love technology, but not as much as you see, but I still love technology. Always and forever, always and forever."
@@justinwilliam4644 Not in America either. I attended 4 different middle schools and 3 different high schools due to moving around so much and NONE of them had lockere of different shapes, sizes, and colors. Maybe things have changed since I graduated. I mean it was 2016 🤷🏻♀️
@@Dylan-ln6qt we dont have double stack lockers we got these dumbass skinny tall ones. you cant even put someone in there they are so shallow and skinny
I don’t know what you’re talking about but every highschool I’ve been in has 2 locker colors. The ones you see in the halls (usually all school colors), and the ones you find in the sports building(blue for some reason)
Fun fact: this movie was extremely popular in my very-Mormon high school and I once asked a boy to a dance by drawing his yearbook picture and writing "There's more where this came from if you go to the dance with me" on the back.
@@ruben980 No, sadly. He was already going with someone else. He did think it was awesome and showed it to everyone, which embarrassed the hell out of me. But it's been 15 years, I can laugh about it now. 😂
Napoleon Dynamite is a comedic masterpiece! One of the funniest movies ever! Jon Heder’s facial and vocal expressions is what made this film what it is! 😂
I live about 15 minutes from Preston, and I’m the typical farming community teenager, yes a new John Deere is still somewhat big news for at least part of the school. That famous Preston night rodeo is still a huge standout highly anticipated loved event for many people in the summer.
I’m from Idaho and just so you know there is not a soul here that hasn’t seen this movie. This is a masterpiece and I hear it talked about very often. The exterior of Napoleon’s house is my friend’s grandparents house.
@0:58 this kind of baking tray is meant to symbolise how at the end of kitchen clean up there are leftovers they place on random trays and its a first come first served to a few select staff
Damn you... every single time I’m watching a movie, all I can hear is your voice sayin’ : Fifteen seconds of logos Narration That’s racist Ooooooh Oh wait Ex-machina Roll credits !
12:30 well...uh...actually...my Jr High AND Highschool both required a skit and had none of the candidates gave speeches. Anyone else have the same experience? No? Okay
The movie's apparent skewed sense of era has to do with the fact that the aughts were very much just that: A skewed era. You had a mish mash of 70s, 80s and 90s leftover during that period, especially if you lived in poorer areas, regardless if it was urban or rural. Fun fact: This was actually a point raised during production, with someone wanting clarity on when the movie took place, so they conceived of the intro credits where Napoleon's school ID would show the year. The Dynamites live in a very rural lower middle class area of Idaho with their grandma, whose house would easily be a time capsule of older decades. The entire town would no doubt feel much the same way. And yes, I have been in shitty stores where there were massive piles of crappy scissors for sale. I don't know why it was a thing then, it may still be a thing now. "Time After Time" was far more likely to be played at a high school during the aughts than anything by Nelly. The likelihood of teenagers dry humping at a school dance was next-to-nil; most teenagers don't even dance at school dances. Napoleon grew up in rural Idaho, and Pedro grew up in northern Mexico, both very agrarian areas. It stands to reason they grew up involved in farm work at some point in their lives; we also see Napoleon getting involved in farm work with the chicken farm, so it could be implied they moved onto cattle at some point. Movies don't show everything and stories often leave many things unspoken and implied.
Huh interesting cause when I was growing up I just saw a bunch of emos running around flipping there hair away from there face listening to Linkin Park and Tool.
@@epcza13...then again, there's both to be found in a rural bedroom community farming lake town... lol preps vs stoners & all manner in between & more besides/beyond etc i.e. FFA hippies
This was filmed in Preston Idaho some teens totally care about John deere tractors and the rodeo. I grew up an hour away and I had classmates mates drive tractors to school regularly. 🤷🏼♀️ 🤣
This movies is honestly flawless. Everything has a setup and pay off. Every character has an arc, characterization, and personality. The movie is also very funny and quotable. The post credit scene is a perfect cherry on top. 10/10 comedy film I personally can't find anything wrong with. Oh and I love the music! OST and licensed!
My high school chemistry teacher was a mean SOB (and a pervert but that's another story). Somehow, we convinced him to let us watch Napoleon Dynamite in class, and we made a bet with him that if he laughed during it he'd give us 5 points extra credit on our final. He laughed so hard that he gave us all 10 points. 😂
I live 15 minutes away from where this movie was shot. Can confirm High Schools do skits when running for president. And yes one of them dressed as Nopolean and did the dance.
I didn’t go to school in Eastern Idaho, but it was a small farming town in Idaho. I knew a guy who did the dance for a talent show and he legit acted a lot like Napoleon in real life. He had a friend who looked just like Napoleon, too.
Napoleon Dynamite is not a period piece. Preston, Idaho is just like that. They were absolutely wearing fanny packs and using rollerblades between using dial-up internet sessions in 2004. The fact that this movie isn't set in the 80s/90s is pretty much the entire point of the movie. The movie is about a rural town of poor people that are stuck in the past, but are struggling to change and grow. It's why it works. IRL, the entire town lives like the only store on earth is the DI, and if you don't know what DI is, then you haven't been to Preston. (It's the Mormon Salvation Army, also its in the dang movie you hack frauds)
2:36 Shared one of these lockers before - the bottom one is meant to be handicap accessible. If the school district doesn't have any need for the locker, they'll usually get assigned to someone else anyway, sometimes short ladies request 'em.
I have always thought this and everyone around me is saying this latly. And now you. Cammy Page are saying it. I never smiled in my life until now. It feels like when im happy or smiling. I didn't sleep for 5 days because of work. I feel like im typing.
One brilliant touch was the Summer "skit" dance sequence - that looked *EXACTLY* like how midwestern high school dance teams would do it. Totally realistic. Not these glitzy *talented* production numbers like you usually see. Just some normally-proportioned high school girls awkwardly going through some steps...
The channel started for pointing out everything wrong with movies, by pointing out actual potholes and inconsistencies. Now it's just a "comedy act" he pads for run time to shove as many "jokes" in as he can.
In middle school, there was a talent show every year, and the teachers always did something together. My eighth grade year, they all got "vote for pedro" shirts, red curly wigs, glasses, and skinny jeans, and did the napoleon dynamite dance. It's still one of the best things I've ever seen at a school. 🤣 The teacher at the front got super into it and her wig ended up falling off, but she already had red curly hair, so it still looked the same. Lol, it was so great.
I have been waiting for this day! I live in Preston my grandma's house is at 4:00 minutes! My mom was offered the role of lawfwanda but denied it cause "I don't act" is what she told me. That highschool is Preston high and yes the lockers really do look like that! I went to the highschool and everyone always comments on them. This town still thrives in Napoleon Dynamite stuff I even have chapstick they gave the schools.
Hearing Jamiroquai’s “Canned Heat” as Napoleon danced was my gateway to EDM and exploring other music. I will be forever grateful to this movie for that.
A funny thing about the actor who plays Uncle Rico - at the time of filming, he was a vegetarian, so if you watch closely you can see him spitting the steak out into the napkin in the scenes he’s in. I think that almost makes his character even funnier.
@@ahotdj07 I have the Napoleon dynamite dvd and it’s mentioned in the director’s commentary track. I was in high school when the movie came out and vegetarian beef substitutes weren’t really a thing yet, plus the movie was made on a very tight budget so even if something like a meat substitute existed, I doubt they would’ve been able to pay for as much as would have been needed for the film.
Ya know, one of the most interesting things about this movie, is that it actually broke Netflix's prediction algorithm. For those that are unaware, Netflix used to use a 5star rating system, one star for hated and 5 stars for loved it. The algorithm would take your ratings from the stuff you watched, and could realistically predict what else you would like to watch, based on what you like versus what others liked who rated things the same as you. Napoleon Dynamite broke the algorithm, because it got almost zero ratings that were in the 2-4 star range. It was either 1star or 5star. Not only that, but it didn't even fit the predictive algorithm, because more often than not, the prediction on who would like it or not was wrong. In fact, this movie (and a couple others like it) broke the predictive algorithm so badly, that Netflix (for a while) was even offering a million dollars to anyone who could improve the predictive algorithm by as little as 10%.
It’s funny how he took a point off for the lockers when that’s just the way the lockers looked in the school. Also the school bus cow shooting scene was a real experience the director had
Fun fact. The teacher back stage was the directors old drama teacher and was my creative arts professor lol. She included the movie as one of our “performances” to watch lol
There is no cursing,crude humor, or sex jokes in this movie and it's still hilarious. The weird awkwardness and shear randomness definitely what makes this movie comedy gold
@@bonniehowell4259 There's also nothing funny. There are plenty of sex jokes in it. Plenty of body shaming and purity culture BS. Why does that make it good?
Anyone who lived in the countryside knows why Napoleon takes the bus instead of riding his bike. He lives all the way outside of town whereas Pedro lived in the more residential area.
I love this movie! This was mandatory viewing in FFA. And tbh, your sinning was hilarious! Loved it! Kind of got a feeling the cinema sins guy enjoys this movie as well 😉
in the movie commentary, John Heder also says those tots in his pocket were so stale, cold and not crispy but he had to keep eating them for the scene. Funny, got sinned for them being crispy in the film when they in fact were not crispy anyway
Jon Gries is definitely lifelong vegetarian or vegan (even since Real Genius in 1985). The steak he was eating was vegan, according to things I read about it.
8:01 Fun Fact: Jon Gries is (or at least was at the time of filming) a vegetarian, and he did not eat any of the steak. In the scene where he talks about throwing a football over the mountain, you can actually see him spit a piece into his hand when he turns around to sit on the porch step.
Wait! You sinned Uncle Rico's creepiness but not the horrible principle's? He checks out Summer and the girls dancing the entire time they're doing their skit!
I'm very surprised he didn't give a "that's racist" when he says to Pedro "i don't know how they do things in Mexico but here in Idaho we have a thing called pride" when he scolds him for making a pinata that looks like Summer Wheatley
@Daniel Moore I totally forgot about that! And when he's introducing them for their speeches, he says "Now we'll hear from our very own Summer!" Then he says, "Now we'll hear from Pedro." Nothing about our very own Pedro? I have a firm theory that the principal was trying to rig Summer to win the election and that he's the one who turned off the dance track. He saw that Napoleon's dance was too good and could ruin his gross plans to work closely with Summer
So this movie was made for $400,000 and it made over $46,000,000 at the worldwide box office. In terms of percentage gross it is a phenomenal success.
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Lol who ever gave this movie the go ahead was a lucky son of a gun because the script alone wouldnt have sounded special to me at all
@@charlottesmoviephile8924 doesn't sound like it but turned out to be one of the best movies I've seen lol still love it to this day
$46 *million?... da f*ck?!
@@thedeepfriar745
Yeah, dyslexia sucks. 🔡😵🔢
Can we appreciate that most of these actors were near or in their 30s playing children but they actually did look like teenagers
Wtf which actors were nearly or over 30!? Surely not Napoleon, Pedro or Deb-id have thought early 20s, no older than 24 or 25. You've kinda surprised me lol
@@teethgrinder83 Pedro was one of those. I looked it up & he was 31 when this movie came out while Napoleon was 28. Take Saved By The Bell for example, most of them outside of Dustin Diamond(RIP) where in their early 20’s by the time the show ended.
Like how Jonah Hill was 24 in Superbad playing a teenager. Only one year younger than Seth Rogan (25) and five years younger than Bill Hader (29) who played grown men. But Jonah looked like a teenager.
@@theguyfromwalgreens damn 31 and 28, that's pretty crazy-especially Pedro. I suppose that's movies for you, it's easy enough to make people look a bit younger or older than they are, still though I'm surprised lol I didn't really get a chance to watch saved by the bell over here in Scotland coz they decided to show it on weekdays just when I was getting ready for the school bus lol
@@JH-ng3hj I suppose its good in a way if your able to pass as younger than you are because then you've more scope for which parts you could take
That Tupperware exploding when he's demonstrating how durable they are then just speeding off never fails to make me laugh
The best part was that wasn't scripted and they left it in the film.
Dang It!
Apparently it wasn’t supposed to pop like that either, so the actor improvised the defeated “dang it” and drove off. 😂
I know the director’s not interested in doing the sequel to Napoleon Dynamite,
but I would love to see a continuation or spin off to Kip Dynamite or maybe even Uncle RICO. We had a series yes, but it didn’t last very long and only consisted of 6 episodes.
@@peacockmenace the series was great. Especially since they got the originals to come back for the voices
Bold of you to assume there’s anything wrong with this masterpiece
Clicked this video to leave this comment and peace out cuz idgaf wat u say this movie is perfect
It's a perfect movie.
Exactly, so he just had to make up stuff, like the scene of the farmer shooting the cow in front of the school bus full of children is a true anecdote from director Jared Hess' childhood
Agree
Extremely lol
Having grown up only around 60 miles from where this was filmed, can confirm many people not only dressed like this in the early 2000's, but indeed wore fanny packs.
I was literally on my way to say "half of these are just explained by rural Idaho". Glad someone beat me to it
I had to go to a school around the place this was filmed. I spent about 6 months near the UT-ID border. When this movie debuted, it was like there was no escape from people fixated and saying quotes from it.
I had to listen to, "Your mom goes to college!" at least 5 times a day for 3 months straight.
Will second this.
@@smittensamantha Yeah... when I try to explain to people what it was like where I grew up I have essentially fallen back to 'Look, Idaho pre-internet was basically 2-4 decades behind the rest of the world. You grew up in the 80's and 90's, I grew up in the 50's and 60's.'
From Pocatello and visited Preston regularly for family reuinions, can confirm people did indeed dress like this.
The best part of this whole video is that every single sin can be disproved just by visiting Preston once. Or pretty much any town in Idaho
Especially in the early 2000s.
Haha right?! As someone who grew up in a small farm town in northern utah not too far away from Preston I couldn’t help but feel annoyed at some of the sins. Like for small town farm towns, the rodeo and a new Deere tractor model is a big deal.
Cache valley gang
A guy named Preston defending a town named Preston....ding
J/k I had the same thought. I lived in East Idaho for 5-6 years and been in more-or-less rural West Idaho for 7 or so years. Can confirm, one trip to rural Idaho and most of these sins go away.
@@brillopower1492 except he could be a stoker in Preston...
"Why couldn't they just set this movie in the '80s or '90s???" I was in Preston last week and they're still in the '80's
Yeah older, poor, rural communities be like that.
I refuse to believe it was ever 2004.
Nostalgia nerd much? Or do they think that shit is actually still cool?
Just wish the housing market in the are was stuck back in the 80's...
@@orinb8654 giving people shit for not doing what’s “in” or whatever. *ding*
As someone who went to a southern Idaho high school I can guarantee you that the new John Deer would in fact be big news for a noticeable chunk of the student body.
Southwest Idaho here, I can confirm this is true everywhere
I came to the comment section looking for this comment.
Im from northern Idaho, also big news in these small towns. Hell, it was the news of the decade when we got a Walmart up here.
The radio wouldn’t stop talking about it for a good 2 months.
South western Idahoan can confirm
@@tulkdog and I'm from Long Island!
The randomness of this movie make it so great to me. Like kips chips getting more and more covered with cheese in every shot, the farmer shooting the cow and the kids screaming, the random gangbanger dudes in nowhere Idaho and so on. Can’t believe it’s already 16 years old. Still a classic I still watch once in a while.
"Why couldn't they set this movie in the 80s or 90s?"
It's about Preston Idaho. They not scheduled to enter the 2000s until sometime in the next five years.
I give them another 10 tbh
Aren’t they full of Mormons? Or is that Utah?
@@Cooz-h1l Utah and some places in Idaho, so maybe?
@@Cooz-h1l At this point, Idaho might well have more Mormons than Utah. As a former Idaho Mormon, I can say that west of Boise and and south of probably Moscow? All Mormons. And Preston is pretty famously on the Idaho/Utah Border
I live in Preston, can confirm we are slowly entering the 2000s
I kept hearing about this movie, and people quoting lines from it, so I finally bought the DVD a few years ago. I love it! It's now one of my all-time favorite comedies.
Wife was like that because I put it on her Ipod and she would go to sleep with it running. We both loved this film when it came out and still do. Hard to believe it is now 17 years later, sheesh (or as Napoleon would say...GOSH).
I hadn't heard of it when I watched it, it just happened to be on TV one night and I gave it a chance-and I'm so so glad I did lol
Wait...it was a comedy!?!!
@@leeharveyoswaldskovich2578 yes what the freek *in napoleon dynamite voice *
DVDs are still a thing?
"Back in the day I would have been able to throw the football over them mountains" - Uncle Rico
Back in college I could throw a pig skin a quarter mile 😂😂😂😂 one the the best lines ever
How is your back??
@Yoobtube Guy no doubt. no doubt in my mind.
I was 8 months pregnant the first time I watched this and when Rico hit him on the bike with the steak, I swear I laughed so hard I thought I was going to go into labor
How old is your baby now?
@@darkchocolate3390 he turned 17 in March
I was also pregnant the first time I saw this movie and my daughter is now almost 17. Time flies doesn't it?
This is the first movie I saw in the theatre after my son (now 17) was born!
😂😂😂
Can confirm Idaho is still like this today in 2021. They never left the 80’s-90’s.
I agreee idaho kinda sucks I wish I didn’t move away from Washington but I’ve lived here I believe 6 years so I’m use to being bored
@@abetaylor3205 haha I live in Washington now and am planning on moving to Idaho soon. I travel there frequently and I find it to be a much more enjoyable place to be personally.
Seriously, especially Preston. It is still the 80s there.
Jackson Michigan
Some might actually consider that paradise
This movie was so good that when I first watched it I was high as a kite and didn't care for it, but the next time, when I was stone cold sober, it became my favorite movie, and the only movie I've ever bought just for me.
Napoleon Dynamite is a masterpiece of its own, risky territory man
It plays like a Nickelodeon film made by MTV.
Idk why but there’s a girl walking hella weird
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No movie is without sin
How DAAAAARRREEE you sin the best line from the entire movie?
"Your mom goes to college.."
I cannot count how many times that line was quoted at my middle school XD
A Turtle approves of that epic line
I love kip's face after too. Like "man, I got her good"
Me and my sister have been quoting that line since 2008.
The real sin is this is a Lds movie
I was born in 2004, the year my mom graduated highschool and happen to be an Idaho native, so I can surely say that this is completely accurate and it is still like this in Idaho. Frozen in time but the potatoes make up for it ig.
I've quoted Kip saying "your mom goes to college" way more than I like to admit.
Same here
I think we all have tbh😂
@@bangerrrz It really never gets old.
This is such a quotable movie
I think for about a year after seeing this movie I spoke mostly in napoleon dynamite quotes
The farmer killing the cow is actually killing the cow for napoleon’s family. Before grandma leaves she says they’re running low on steak and Lyle would be coming over. The farmer killing the cow is Lyle
Yes, but I can still understand CS point that in an empty field next to the road probably isn't the best place to kill the beef. Unless you were planning on butchering it in place, which should garner it a few more sins.
@@brillopower1492 Also, why use a gun you're wasting precious material like cheeks and organs that can be used for stew.
Lyle is a shitty farmer. 1st, you don't normally just shoot a cow in the head, especially one meant for consumption. 2nd he's shooting it in the middle of a field instead of in a barn or somewhere where he can process it.
@@faditarapolsi2898 But he's awesome at finding arrow heads and marrying people, apparently!
@@KRYMauL Yeah, all you need is a solid club or truck tire iron!
I remember the days when Cinema Sins actually sinned mistakes, clichés, and plots that made no sense, etc. I don't know what this is...
LOL so true
When. Tell me one film that they sinned seriously. Please. I'll eat my shirt if you can find just ONE! everyone says they remember when bit no1 can give an example. Please direct me
@@chmchn I think your correct to a point that none of the reviews are strictly objective. I'm not sure if your saying that as a positive or negative. My point, is more to the contrast of the late 2000's compared to now. Much shorter reviews (2-3 min), more actual sins, and he pointed out those things (plot, timeline, dialog) that made no sense. Gratifying to see someone else noticed those things also. That's something a lot of movie review movie mistake/videos/channels/websites were not providing. Also no hah hah hah hah hah hah hah (fake laugh).
@@jcodol3334 They used to be pointing out mistakes with a bit of satire. Nowadays it's satire with a bit of pointing out mistakes
It's like Napoleon Dynamite, it's comedy, but very subjective
As someone who grew up in rural Idaho I can 100% confirm that student body elections included skits. I actually was elected activity manager in 7th grade after giving Pedro's speech and doing Napoleon's dance because of course.
Kips song at his wedding is one of my favorite scenes. "I love technology, but not as much as you see, but I still love technology. Always and forever, always and forever."
I like how literally half the sins were about the food😂
Mismatched lockers in garish colors is the most public school thing in this movie.
Not in Australia. In the country anyways our lockers were half the size and all greyish metal color.
I'm in the US but my high school lockers were plain white, I'd always get the bottom row too even though I was over 6 feet tall.
@@justinwilliam4644 Not in America either. I attended 4 different middle schools and 3 different high schools due to moving around so much and NONE of them had lockere of different shapes, sizes, and colors. Maybe things have changed since I graduated. I mean it was 2016 🤷🏻♀️
@@Dylan-ln6qt we dont have double stack lockers we got these dumbass skinny tall ones. you cant even put someone in there they are so shallow and skinny
I don’t know what you’re talking about but every highschool I’ve been in has 2 locker colors. The ones you see in the halls (usually all school colors), and the ones you find in the sports building(blue for some reason)
Fun fact: this movie was extremely popular in my very-Mormon high school and I once asked a boy to a dance by drawing his yearbook picture and writing "There's more where this came from if you go to the dance with me" on the back.
Did he say yes?
@@ruben980 No, sadly. He was already going with someone else. He did think it was awesome and showed it to everyone, which embarrassed the hell out of me. But it's been 15 years, I can laugh about it now. 😂
@@jenniestevens1166 one can only dream of the day i receive such a letter.
Clever!!!!
It's a classic in Utah
Napoleon Dynamite is a comedic masterpiece! One of the funniest movies ever! Jon Heder’s facial and vocal expressions is what made this film what it is! 😂
I AGREE!! Heder is a great actor.
@@knockoutking3764 facts
I live about 15 minutes from Preston, and I’m the typical farming community teenager, yes a new John Deere is still somewhat big news for at least part of the school. That famous Preston night rodeo is still a huge standout highly anticipated loved event for many people in the summer.
The greatest tractor of all time is the Ferguson TE 20
"How much you want to make a bet I can throw a football over those mountains" 💪🏉
If coach would have put me in.....
I still think he can do it.
Back in 82 I used to be able to throw a pigskin over a quarter mile
My dad always quotes that lmao
Kip...you know anything about time-travel?
I’m from Idaho and just so you know there is not a soul here that hasn’t seen this movie. This is a masterpiece and I hear it talked about very often. The exterior of Napoleon’s house is my friend’s grandparents house.
The tetherball ending with "The Promise" playing was the best movie ending of all time.
It was. I was way past the demographic for this movie (my niece told me I had to watch this) but I loved it, and whenever I watch the ending, I cry.
True. I also enjoyed Kip's wedding.
That’s Preston High School. That’s the real color scheme. I’m removing a sin from the movie but I will grant it for the school itself.
I'm over moving a sin because my state exists
@0:58 this kind of baking tray is meant to symbolise how at the end of kitchen clean up there are leftovers they place on random trays and its a first come first served to a few select staff
The dance scene is a cinematic masterpiece
Damn you... every single time I’m watching a movie, all I can hear is your voice sayin’ :
Fifteen seconds of logos
Narration
That’s racist
Ooooooh
Oh wait
Ex-machina
Roll credits !
Same! My sister and I say them to each when we watch a movie together hahaha
Don’t forget:
He survives this
(Something) cliche
Prometheus school of running away from things
💯
I can't watch a movie without noticing flaws....and there are a lot of flaws...so they are right...no movie is without sin
And if you are an OG: there’s no lap dance in this scene
12:30 well...uh...actually...my Jr High AND Highschool both required a skit and had none of the candidates gave speeches. Anyone else have the same experience? No? Okay
“Everything wrong with Napoleon Dynamite in 14 Minutes or Less”
I was expecting this video to be 0 minutes or less
Everyone in Utah and Idaho has been forced to watch this movie with their moms at LEAST 15 times, myself included
I saw it once in theaters. That was enough for me.
@@aspenmgy bro its so good tho how can u only watch it once😂
@@williamrithaler4051 I definitely hated it.
@@aspenmgy how old are u
@@williamrithaler4051 I was 22 when this movie was released.
Honestly that dance scene should’ve reset the sin counter to zero
The movie's apparent skewed sense of era has to do with the fact that the aughts were very much just that: A skewed era. You had a mish mash of 70s, 80s and 90s leftover during that period, especially if you lived in poorer areas, regardless if it was urban or rural. Fun fact: This was actually a point raised during production, with someone wanting clarity on when the movie took place, so they conceived of the intro credits where Napoleon's school ID would show the year.
The Dynamites live in a very rural lower middle class area of Idaho with their grandma, whose house would easily be a time capsule of older decades. The entire town would no doubt feel much the same way. And yes, I have been in shitty stores where there were massive piles of crappy scissors for sale. I don't know why it was a thing then, it may still be a thing now.
"Time After Time" was far more likely to be played at a high school during the aughts than anything by Nelly. The likelihood of teenagers dry humping at a school dance was next-to-nil; most teenagers don't even dance at school dances.
Napoleon grew up in rural Idaho, and Pedro grew up in northern Mexico, both very agrarian areas. It stands to reason they grew up involved in farm work at some point in their lives; we also see Napoleon getting involved in farm work with the chicken farm, so it could be implied they moved onto cattle at some point. Movies don't show everything and stories often leave many things unspoken and implied.
Huh interesting cause when I was growing up I just saw a bunch of emos running around flipping there hair away from there face listening to Linkin Park and Tool.
@@y2craze that’s the difference between cities and farm towns, I guess.
@@epcza13...then again, there's both to be found
in a rural bedroom community farming lake town... lol
preps vs stoners & all manner in between & more
besides/beyond etc i.e. FFA hippies
A lot of the reason why this movie is so good: accuracy. 👍
@@favoritemustard3542 haha true!
This was filmed in Preston Idaho some teens totally care about John deere tractors and the rodeo. I grew up an hour away and I had classmates mates drive tractors to school regularly. 🤷🏼♀️ 🤣
the rural convertable
And the local supermarket is an IGA
Nothing wrong with old school living
@@thealaskanforever nothing wrong at all with it. ☺️
This movies is honestly flawless. Everything has a setup and pay off. Every character has an arc, characterization, and personality. The movie is also very funny and quotable. The post credit scene is a perfect cherry on top. 10/10 comedy film I personally can't find anything wrong with. Oh and I love the music! OST and licensed!
Yeah, Uncle Rico went from loser creep to turbo loser creep.
My high school chemistry teacher was a mean SOB (and a pervert but that's another story). Somehow, we convinced him to let us watch Napoleon Dynamite in class, and we made a bet with him that if he laughed during it he'd give us 5 points extra credit on our final. He laughed so hard that he gave us all 10 points. 😂
Just checking, I mean I think I know the answer, you went to school in America right?
@@jamesowen5702 😆
Awesome.
How do you get to watch a movie in CHEMISTRY class?
@@dianeridley9804 And follow up question, how long have you worked at Walmart?
"Idaho is not a real place" - CinemaSins 2013
I almost went to tears laughing when he said that all nonchalantly
@@devinm9245 are you from Idaho as well
What do you mean 2013?
Wrong about 4:48. Our PE teacher would take us into the gym, drop a few basketballs on the floor, and go back to his office for an hour.
“This is Idaho, not central Florida”
As a Floridian, I agree with your assessment
except he's wrong, it's accurate in both
This is movie is very charming, Jon Heder is well cast in this role.
You spelled "annoying as fuck" wrong
He doesn't really talk like he has asthma
"Watch out for your cornhole, bud" was the funniest part of this 😂😂😂😂😂
I live 15 minutes away from where this movie was shot. Can confirm High Schools do skits when running for president.
And yes one of them dressed as Nopolean and did the dance.
I didn’t go to school in Eastern Idaho, but it was a small farming town in Idaho. I knew a guy who did the dance for a talent show and he legit acted a lot like Napoleon in real life. He had a friend who looked just like Napoleon, too.
@@madelinevance8954 This movie has had too much impact on our culture xD
The chapstick scene will never fail to make me laugh
But my lips hurt real bad!!
"Thats racist even for idaho" nope not even the worst
We aren’t thattttttt racist
Napoleon Dynamite is not a period piece. Preston, Idaho is just like that.
They were absolutely wearing fanny packs and using rollerblades between using dial-up internet sessions in 2004.
The fact that this movie isn't set in the 80s/90s is pretty much the entire point of the movie. The movie is about a rural town of poor people that are stuck in the past, but are struggling to change and grow. It's why it works.
IRL, the entire town lives like the only store on earth is the DI, and if you don't know what DI is, then you haven't been to Preston.
(It's the Mormon Salvation Army, also its in the dang movie you hack frauds)
Every time someone says Preston I get confused because I grew up fairly close to Preston, England, and the two towns are nothing like one another 😂
Damn chill the fuck out it’s just a comedy video lol
Makes me glad to have grown up in south Florida
Mormon Salvation Army, naturally abbreviated to DI lol
@@nthgth Deseret Industries
I remember seeing this in the theater, and thinking, "what the hell did I just watch?" After it was over.
2:36 Shared one of these lockers before - the bottom one is meant to be handicap accessible. If the school district doesn't have any need for the locker, they'll usually get assigned to someone else anyway, sometimes short ladies request 'em.
Hearing "time after time" is 100% accurate at school dances there
I have always thought this and everyone around me is saying this latly. And now you. Cammy Page are saying it. I never smiled in my life until now. It feels like when im happy or smiling. I didn't sleep for 5 days because of work. I feel like im typing.
Trapper keeper is the "mullet" of the school world. Party on the outside business on the inside.
I...
You!...
(Frustrated sigh)
I guess!! >:/
I was waiting for that comment..!
Its "business in the front, party in the back"
@@GyeongmiBaeb that's not even how a Trapper Keeper works
Like your comment but adding a dislike cos I'm a petty Blackhawks fan. I'll call it even with this unnecessary comment 🙂
One brilliant touch was the Summer "skit" dance sequence - that looked *EXACTLY* like how midwestern high school dance teams would do it. Totally realistic. Not these glitzy *talented* production numbers like you usually see. Just some normally-proportioned high school girls awkwardly going through some steps...
That's Hillary Duff's sister Hailey and they always give her the popular girl role
i don't think people understand that this is played for laughs, Jeremy himself stated "We're not critics, we're assholes"
Yeah, everyone seems pissed about this though😂😂
It baffles me that people still don't understand the point of this channel.
@@JordanTaikuri yeah, I'll watch him slaughter movies I love simply because it's hilarious
True, people take this channel way to seriously
The channel started for pointing out everything wrong with movies, by pointing out actual potholes and inconsistencies. Now it's just a "comedy act" he pads for run time to shove as many "jokes" in as he can.
If you sin this movie you will definitely get a round house kick from Rex wearing those bad boy parachute pants.
In middle school, there was a talent show every year, and the teachers always did something together. My eighth grade year, they all got "vote for pedro" shirts, red curly wigs, glasses, and skinny jeans, and did the napoleon dynamite dance. It's still one of the best things I've ever seen at a school. 🤣
The teacher at the front got super into it and her wig ended up falling off, but she already had red curly hair, so it still looked the same. Lol, it was so great.
I have been waiting for this day! I live in Preston my grandma's house is at 4:00 minutes! My mom was offered the role of lawfwanda but denied it cause "I don't act" is what she told me. That highschool is Preston high and yes the lockers really do look like that! I went to the highschool and everyone always comments on them. This town still thrives in Napoleon Dynamite stuff I even have chapstick they gave the schools.
Big j burgers is a good example of that!
This movie is perfect, case in point.
I agree, even though there's no concrete plot, it's still a quirky, fun ride!
True
"case IN point"
@@Rugelacharugula Sorry, must have autocorrected.
@@trinaq kinda like real life
Hearing Jamiroquai’s “Canned Heat” as Napoleon danced was my gateway to EDM and exploring other music. I will be forever grateful to this movie for that.
You missed the part where Summer used the Happy Hands group for her dance, but Napoleon is actually in the Happy Hands earlier in the film.
Conflict of interest required him to bow out perhaps???
A funny thing about the actor who plays Uncle Rico - at the time of filming, he was a vegetarian, so if you watch closely you can see him spitting the steak out into the napkin in the scenes he’s in. I think that almost makes his character even funnier.
How funny. I never knew that but if that was the case (and I am a vegetarian), why didn't they just give him a vegetarian product to eat?
Vegeterian “steak” wasnt too popular back then but they could have made something
@@ahotdj07 ? If you already had steak in your mouth wouldn't spitting it out just make the waste worse? I'm genuinely curious.
Commentary said he doesn't eat red meat, so he must've ate chicken and fish
@@ahotdj07 I have the Napoleon dynamite dvd and it’s mentioned in the director’s commentary track. I was in high school when the movie came out and vegetarian beef substitutes weren’t really a thing yet, plus the movie was made on a very tight budget so even if something like a meat substitute existed, I doubt they would’ve been able to pay for as much as would have been needed for the film.
Can't skip the Uncle Rico monologue about going pro and what could have been, it's probably the best scene in the movie.
The “Amazon employee’s” line was too real and got me lol
Minimum wage at Amazon is 15 dollars an hour. This dude is just mad someone created a successful company.
Never clicked faster in my life
Me neither
@@00ta35 *either
Me neither, I sprinted as soon as I heard! 🤣🏃
@@TheKingOfAllHorror autocorrect is a bitch bro 😔
😂😂😂
Having grown up in Preston, I can confirm that the high school still looks almost exactly the same including the mismatched lockers and auditorium
Ya know, one of the most interesting things about this movie, is that it actually broke Netflix's prediction algorithm.
For those that are unaware, Netflix used to use a 5star rating system, one star for hated and 5 stars for loved it. The algorithm would take your ratings from the stuff you watched, and could realistically predict what else you would like to watch, based on what you like versus what others liked who rated things the same as you. Napoleon Dynamite broke the algorithm, because it got almost zero ratings that were in the 2-4 star range. It was either 1star or 5star. Not only that, but it didn't even fit the predictive algorithm, because more often than not, the prediction on who would like it or not was wrong.
In fact, this movie (and a couple others like it) broke the predictive algorithm so badly, that Netflix (for a while) was even offering a million dollars to anyone who could improve the predictive algorithm by as little as 10%.
Now that I actually look at uncle Rico, he's the perfect example of a stereotype uncle, all he needs is some kid in the basement.... if they had one
Probably puts them in the crawlspace
My wife was pissed when I brought this movie home. She laughed for the entire movie. We watched 10 times!
It’s funny how he took a point off for the lockers when that’s just the way the lockers looked in the school. Also the school bus cow shooting scene was a real experience the director had
Holy shit!
@@saravg235 Holy "bull" shit!
@@favoritemustard3542 lol
A new Trapper Keeper was the best part of going back to school each year.
Why did Mead stop making them? They were useful for holding papers and keeping them divided by class. Definitely a good tool for staying organized.
Every time I watch this movie I see a part I’ve never seen before
Fun fact. The teacher back stage was the directors old drama teacher and was my creative arts professor lol. She included the movie as one of our “performances” to watch lol
I adore how you sinned the food logic for 2 minutes straight lolz.
I always remember watching this movie when I had bad anxiety attacks and times when I couldn’t sleep, it was so cozy for some reason
As a college student from Idaho in WA in 2004, this was pretty much the greatest thing ever. And the post credit ending is delightful, dammit.
This movie and UHF are some of my favorite movies because of the sheer awkwardness of it and the level of comedy it pull off through that awkwardness.
Don't you dare compare this movie to UHF. UHF is a goddamn masterpiece. This movie looks up to hot garbage and longs to aspire to it.
@@thembill8246...while it is true
you've got it all on UHF, don't go all
_Conan The Librarian_ @James Emmons. Or no Twinkie‐wiener-sandwich for you!
There is no cursing,crude humor, or sex jokes in this movie and it's still hilarious. The weird awkwardness and shear randomness definitely what makes this movie comedy gold
@@bonniehowell4259 There's also nothing funny. There are plenty of sex jokes in it. Plenty of body shaming and purity culture BS. Why does that make it good?
Jon Heder said in the movie commentary that the tots were super cold and soggy and the crunch was added in
You say this like there’s something wrong with Napoleon Dynamite
There's not SOMETHING
wrong with Napoleon Dynamite... There's EVERYTHING wrong with Napoleon Dynamite.
love your memes
No matter how many times I watch the movie it never gets old
Also my dad will sit through this whole movie just to watch Napoleon dance
Your profile picture is pretty.
Bold of you to assume schools don’t use cheese graders as toilet paper. 8:30
Thank you for taking a sin off for diedrich Bader mans a gem
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS MOVIE SO DON"T EVEN TRY TO RUIN MY CHILDHOOD YOU GOT THAT BUD
It’s already been done.
@@God-xr4yu God has spoken. Anything you say now is irrelevant
I agree, Jeremy is slowly coming for all of our beloved childhood properties!
Honestly it kinda sucks bud
Like, I don’t understand why you even tell him not, when he’s already made the video of him doing it. Stupid
there will NEVER be a greater line in cinematic history than
"your Mom goes to college"
Not gonna lie I didn't even know that there was a post credits scene in this movie
Anyone who lived in the countryside knows why Napoleon takes the bus instead of riding his bike.
He lives all the way outside of town whereas Pedro lived in the more residential area.
12:22 is so on point, but then again Summer looks like the type of person who thinks cumin is ghost pepper.
I don’t see how that masterpiece of cinematic art can have any flaws. This video is a lie.
This was THE movie for my teenage self and gang of friends, even though none of us could entirely explain why
Everything wrong with Napoleon Dynamite:
nothing.
The end.
Can't wait for the sequel, Napoleon C4
If only...
There was a few animated episodes too
My sister is a teacher and had a coworker who tried to quote the “Tina” line. A student immediately started crying and yelled, “My name’s Tina!”
I love this movie! This was mandatory viewing in FFA. And tbh, your sinning was hilarious! Loved it! Kind of got a feeling the cinema sins guy enjoys this movie as well 😉
No matter how many sins this movie gets it is still a classic and funny af
Fun Fact: The guy who plays Uncle Rico is actually a vegetarian. He always spit the steak out after every shot.
I did some more research on that, and it said that Jon Gries was not a vegetarian but just did not eat red meat. So, I don't know what's true or not.
@@silliestbilly39 Let's call it at least half true then, since he did spit the steak out after each take, while he may or may not be vegetarian.
in the movie commentary, John Heder also says those tots in his pocket were so stale, cold and not crispy but he had to keep eating them for the scene. Funny, got sinned for them being crispy in the film when they in fact were not crispy anyway
Jon Gries is definitely lifelong vegetarian or vegan (even since Real Genius in 1985). The steak he was eating was vegan, according to things I read about it.
@@donniehollingsworth1611 Haha, yeah but they added the crunch sound. *ding!*
8:01 Fun Fact: Jon Gries is (or at least was at the time of filming) a vegetarian, and he did not eat any of the steak. In the scene where he talks about throwing a football over the mountain, you can actually see him spit a piece into his hand when he turns around to sit on the porch step.
He was in Martin too
Wait! You sinned Uncle Rico's creepiness but not the horrible principle's? He checks out Summer and the girls dancing the entire time they're doing their skit!
I'm very surprised he didn't give a "that's racist" when he says to Pedro "i don't know how they do things in Mexico but here in Idaho we have a thing called pride" when he scolds him for making a pinata that looks like Summer Wheatley
@Daniel Moore I totally forgot about that! And when he's introducing them for their speeches, he says "Now we'll hear from our very own Summer!" Then he says, "Now we'll hear from Pedro." Nothing about our very own Pedro? I have a firm theory that the principal was trying to rig Summer to win the election and that he's the one who turned off the dance track. He saw that Napoleon's dance was too good and could ruin his gross plans to work closely with Summer
@@catherinewolf1103 I can very much see that! I wonder if there is deleted scenes of that? Great theory!
Not to mention he is insulting Pedro’s intelligence when he is trying to explain where everything is.