Napoleon Dynamite ***
Cast: Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Tina Majorino, Haylie Duff
Director: Jared Hess
Running Length: 1:26
MPAA Classification: PG-13

Napoleon Dynamite (Heder) is a nerdy, antisocial teenager who lives with his brother Kip (Ruell) and his grandma. That is, until grandma gets hurt and Uncle Rico (Gries) steps up to take care of them. They are a bunch of weirdos...Uncle Rico is living in the past, vidoetaping himself playing football; Kip spends most of his time in internet chat rooms. Napoleon himself is on the bottom rung of the food chain at school. His only friend is Pedro (Ramirez), a student that just moved to town.

There is no real plot to this movie. It is more of a slice of Napoleon's life, jumping right in at the beginning of the movie, and jumping right out at the end. A lot of things happen in the movie, a school dance and a class election chief among them, but it is all just part of his life and not really the focus of the film.

Jon Heder plays Napoleon with a low-key nerdiness. He is both funny and sad at the same time, and Napoleon isn't always the most likeable. That's ok though, because you still want to root for him. "Napoleon Dynamite" is a very interesting and hilarious (at times) movie. If you are looking for something a little different, something a little off-center, this is definately the movie for you.