I love how Kip doesn’t look back before getting on the bus.

Vote for Pedro.

Half of the people that watch this movie: Why would anybody do that? I can't relate to this. The other half of the people that watch this movie: OMG, this is so relatable! This was my life!

@astroboirap

25 күн бұрын

these two suckers dont get it

This movie is so accurate to growing up in Montana. All these characters and situations....kills me every time 😂 It's like someone made a film of my life.

@Cassxowary

2 ай бұрын

and idaho and indiana and others but yah😂

@barbarachieppo9603

17 күн бұрын

This is how rural /small town Indiana is too. I went to a rural high-school , with lots of great people like these characters. 😊❤

@barbarachieppo9603

17 күн бұрын

​@@CassxowaryIt truly is.😊

fun fact, the pretty girl who bikes up to uncle rico, his ex-gf that dumped him for being stuck in the past is played by the real-life wife of the one who plays Napoleon’s older brother Kip!

@xnoxmrskillz6786

7 күн бұрын

That'd pretty cool I never knew that tbh

This is MY CHILDHOOD. I graduated 1998, so yeah, this is set mid 90s. I knew a version of every single one of these characters growing up! 😂😂😂😂

@DrunkDadsWatch

3 ай бұрын

Lol that’s great, thanks for checking us out

@kenjutsukata1o1

3 ай бұрын

It actually takes place in the early 2000s, but since it's a tiny rural town in Idaho they're a decade behind the rest of the world, so it might as well have taken place in the 90s XD

@Cassxowary

2 ай бұрын

early 00s but still stuck in the 80s

@rugr82day

Ай бұрын

@@Cassxowary , like Uncle Rico.

@jessmarie8040

13 күн бұрын

Same

Fun Fact - 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, who grew up in Idaho where the movie takes place.

@DrunkDadsWatch

3 ай бұрын

That’s crazy!!!! I didn’t know that, thanks for the comment.-Rick

It took me a while to figure out why I enjoyed this movie so much, and I finally realized it's because the character of Napoleon Dynamite is probably the most dichotomous character I've ever seen. He's simultaneously what none of us want to be, i.e., socially awkward, but also who we all really want to be, genuine, honest, loyal, indefatigable. I love that the character of Deb recognizes this--she gets it. My favorite scene is the end when Napoleon asks Deb if she wants to "play him" in tetherball, and she does, and she essentially lets him win, and Napoleon and Deb high five each other. That, my friend, is a power couple that will be able to overcome every challenge life throws at them.

I was struggling with major depression during this time, I was 22 and felt like my life was falling apart, attempted suicide and had to be hospitalized for a few wks, this movie got me through it and I look back at my time in high school and early 20s how far I have come in life, its amazing how a film can completely change you and make you feel better about life. Im 41, happily married and own a small business and so greatful ❤

@billyburke1681

3 ай бұрын

That’s awesome to hear how you persevered n told life to go blank it self …love to hear that your living happily and successfully…it’s crazy how a movie or entertainment can make us feel things we might’ve not felt before …happy to hear on your success n keep doing great things …as the new drunk dad (lol) we’re happy to have you as one of our followers

This movie never get's old. I laugh so hard every single time! So quotable too!

It's amazing how much of this film is autobiographical for its director. Elements taken from life include the film's title and being the only boy in a sign language class. Cast includes the director's relatives, teachers and neighbor.

@DrunkDadsWatch

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the info, really appreciate it.-Rick

This is a movie you have to watch more than once to really appreciate it.

Napoleon & Pedro one of the greatest duos in film

There's something called the Napoleon Dynamity problem that describes how computers cannot anticipate the eccentric ways that real people actually decide to take a chance on a movie. This one and others like it, mostly quirky independent films, polarized people, they either loved it or hated it. In 2006 Netflix gave a $1M prize to the team that developed the formula that improved the accuracy of the Netflix movie recommendation algorithm by 10%.

This movie is sooo weird. I love it. lol. 20 years already, how time flies.

setting is Preston, IA 2004. the point of the clothing, music, attitude is meant to emphasize how behind in the times they are. there’s a fantastic new video called “what is Napoleon Dynamite really about?” where they describe this as a story of being yourself & the struggle to make friends. v good watch if y’all have the time (:

@DrunkDadsWatch

3 ай бұрын

I definitely will thanks for the comment, really appreciate it!-Rick

Graduated in 01, not far from where this was set, and you’re right about the timing, everything was about 10 years behind the rest of the world 😅

@Cassxowary

2 ай бұрын

or 20 for them 😅

This is a movie that most people start out watching going, “What…?” And then 10 minutes in it settles into that laughter spot of your brain. Also graduated in 2004 and this was magic. Lol

@kenjutsukata1o1

3 ай бұрын

I worked in a video rental store at the time and we got to take movies home before release date, so I grabbed this movie on a whim and was giggling like a jackass while watching it. My mom came over to see what was up and a few minutes in she just shook her head and said it was the stupidest thing she'd ever seen. An hour and twenty minutes later she was still watching, and now twenty years later she STILL quotes it constantly. It really is a remarkable film XD

I graduated from high school 2 years before this movie came out and I thought it was awesome and hilarious and still do

This movie is my a big part of my childhood. I love the scene where uncle Rico brains Napoleon with the steak😂😂 if you watch closely you can see Efren Ramirez scurrying away to avoid laughing on camera and blowing the shot.

When jon gets smacked by the steak that really hit him even the actor on the bike had to quickly run off set to keep from breaking

I’m glad you took to this movie on the first watch. I had to watch it a second time, about a year later before it pulled me in. And then I knew what the ‘ Vote for Pedro’ shirts I kept seeing was all about.

REX KWON DO! COME DOWN TODAY FOR YOUR FREE TRIAL LESSON! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Jon heder drew all of the drawings except for the unicorn for the movie

@DrunkDadsWatch

3 ай бұрын

Really appreciate all the comments and all the behind the scenes info. -Rick

@JeremyAustin-hw1qy

3 ай бұрын

@@DrunkDadsWatch no problem 😊

Why do you love this Cult Movie? Let us know down below.

@chimpinaneckbrace

3 ай бұрын

I watch this all the time with my Canadian model girlfriend. We talk online a couple of hours every day. I guess you could say it's pretty serious.

@benjaminroe311ify

21 күн бұрын

Why do I love it? I love technology! But like I love it. I love it more!

I was working at Best Buy when this came out and my coworkers were always talking about it. I didn't see it until years later.

17:46 in the script, the Tupperware container was supposed to reform after being ran over and not break, but it did and they kept the improvised reaction in the movie.

@elemar8209

8 күн бұрын

There was a huge Tupperware plant in Jerome in the 70’s and 80’s, just a bit down the road from Preston. There were Tupperware dealers all over the place back then.

That girl was in Andre and Correna Correna. Two great films from my childhood.

This movie will always be popular among some people. The themes of being who you are...being faithful to yourself and your friends in the face of awkwardness are timeless. Especially for the many of us that have been or still are very awkward.

The actress that plays Uncle Rico's Ex is actually married to the guy that plays Kip :D Phenomenal movie! One of a kind forever.

Something about Idaho is that it's always behind on the times from what Jared hess and jon heder has said

When kip drives over the Tupperware bowl it wasn't supposed to break but it was kept in because it was funny 😄

@Jeremy252

3 ай бұрын

Not true. They had separate takes. One where they intentionally broke it and one where they filled it with cement so it'd stay intact. Obviously nobody would actually expect a tupperware container to stay in one piece after running over it with a 2-ton van.

@JeremyAustin-hw1qy

3 ай бұрын

@@Jeremy252 okay sounds good I didn't know that

you need to watch the movie Kung pow: enter the fist. It’s legit, one of the funniest movies ever.

You really don’t know what “Square” implies? It was the term used for someone who’s a dweeb or not cool. There’s hip😎kids and square🤓kids

You guys were actually completely spot on. This movie isnt supposed to have a date, its exactly that "midwest thrift store" vibe on purpose. The dvd commentary is pretty fun to watch for me and they ralked about that, its meant to be an extremely vague time period

I’m 40 with no children and still trying to talk my husband into letting me put a tetherball pole. 😊 yes you can judge me.

@DrunkDadsWatch

2 ай бұрын

Never, get that tetherball pole-Rick

@Cassxowary

Ай бұрын

that’s because he knows he’d just lose… sore loser. 😂

@mandyfischer3133

Ай бұрын

Somehow I talked my parents into getting one when I was in middle school lol 😅 barley played, looked more fun at the school playground lol

When you first see Uncle Rico, they ask about Auntie, and he said she was gone. But at the end, Auntie came back.

Something is telling me that the guy in the Yankee cap can totally relate to Napoleon. Just an educated guess.🤣😎

Drinking some Juice Force right now as well boys

@DrunkDadsWatch

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for hanging out with us!-Rick

this movie was really popular in my age group when it came out. we were starting 8th grade at the time so it seemed to be perfect 8th grade humor. i still love it and was always one of my favorites.

Thank you , KZread algorithm for bringing me to this channel. 35:32 Tether ball and the soundtrack 😊 class of 2002 Panama City Florida

@DrunkDadsWatch

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for checking us out

I think a rating scale is just setting up people to be upset. Either you liked the movie or you didn't!

26:51 Funny true story: Back in my high school days, a fellow student with red hair I knew named Adam climbed a fence and fell the exact same way. It was me, him and several others from a class that had an assignment that required us to go to the track and field outside. There was a gym class going on at the time while we were out there. They were playing flag football or something of the sort, I can't remember exactly. Someone threw the ball to where it went over the fence. So Adam volunteered to retrieve the ball. He then proceeded to climb the fence, just like Napoleon did, he slipped and fell the very same way! And this happened just mere feet away from me. I know I shouldn't have laughed at his expense, but I couldn't help myself because it was hilarious the way he fell. Anyway, he came back over, ran towards the gym class and the way he threw the ball back to them was just as funny to me. That's why I laugh so hard when this scene comes up lol. 😅

@DrunkDadsWatch

11 сағат бұрын

Great story !!! Thank you for that

Never thought about that! This movie, especially the opening has the style of Wes Anderson.

I like it more than all the others you mentioned from that era. Just keeps getting funnier on rewatches.

Right there with you two about being unsure of this movie. When I first tried to watch it was about a year after it released, I watched maybe fifteen minutes, then turned it off, couldn't do it. lol Fast forward a few years later I'm visiting a friend in Arizona, we're both still hammered from the previous night of drinking and he suggests we watch this movie, of course I wasn't interested, he tells me, "this is the perfect time". I watched it and loved it. As far you two being a little buzzed watching this, yeah, it might have helped, alcohol has a way of removing those walls we sometimes put up. Anyway, fun reaction, glad you both enjoyed it.

It's possible that Napoleon did actually shoot wolverines in Alaska, I saw an animal hide pinned up on the wall by the front door of his house.

Fun fact. A couple weeks after this movie came out one of my best friends in band class came in with a T-shirt that said I voted for summer.

@DrunkDadsWatch

25 күн бұрын

Oh that’s great lol

Pre-Wes Anderson, after Wes Anderson.

Just subscribed! Am looking forward to more awesome reactions! Cheers 🍻

@DrunkDadsWatch

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, we try to make all our reactions entertaining, if you liked these check out our other movies reaction or our two so bad it’s good movie reactions, if your looking for a laugh

I looooovvvveeee this movie, thanks guys!!!

Tina Majorino also had a part in the great HBO series Big Love.

Trisha's mom made her go to the dance with Napoleon because Uncle Rico implied that Napoleon was mentally disabled, so it was a 'charity' thing.

@Cassxowary

2 ай бұрын

uh no? it’s because he did that drawing for her, that’s also why she had to call him

@kenjutsukata1o1

2 ай бұрын

@@Cassxowary uh, yes? The context clues are pretty obvious.

@Cassxowary

Ай бұрын

@@kenjutsukata1o1yah I’m not very good at context clues (and that still wetting the bed comment) so I guess you’re right too

When this came out it was so popular that there was an understandable fatigue and backlash against it due to the incessant quoting, but even upon first viewing as a teen it struck me as having a much deeper setting than any other contemporaneous comedies. You really feel like you're in this Idaho town where time is stuck and you're witnessing these kind of sad, average people go about their lives. So it's beyond a comedy in my opinion.

That girl at the end on the bike was his ex-girlfriend uncle Rico was dating. She is also the real-life wife of the actor who played Kip. The only reason I watched it in the first place was because I like Tina Majorino in Waterworld 1995, but I'm glad I did watch it because I loved it.

@DrunkDadsWatch

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the extra info!!-Rick

I think it takes place in the 90s but maybe fashion didn't quite catch up in their part of the country.

@Cassxowary

Ай бұрын

nope early 00s but small midwest towns are stuck in the past so they still think it’s the 80s (and 90s)

4:53 "I can't tell what this movie is yet." I've seen it a few times (including reactions to it) and I'm still not sure.

The production team legit couldnt find a single black family in the area to play lefanduhs family in the post credit scene so they actually had to fly her real family in for it lol

@Cassxowary

Ай бұрын

LaFawnduh* but yup lol not many outside of the capital back then and a small (tiny) number now

Starla IS a woman: professional bodybuilder Carmen Brady.

This is a masterpiece!

New sub, check out a crazy true story American Made. Tom Cruise was awesome in it and he actually flew the planes too.

the movie is supposed to take place in the 2000's but their town is 20 years behind

I love the scene when you hear ZAPP❤

I've actually done the tater tots in the pocket thing myself when I was in elementary school. Nothing beats school cafeteria tater tots, I had to save them for later, couldn't resist.. 😆

@DrunkDadsWatch

11 сағат бұрын

I hear you lol

This movie came out watched it when i was fourteen had it on replay

You’re just jealous I was talking to babes online all day

niceee

A useless fact jon heder was only paid a thousand dollars to do this movie

Every reaction video comments on the age difference on the bus ride. It’s not uncommon in small towns for high school jr high and elementary kids to ride together. Fewer kids, fewer schools, fewer buses. And just like real life, MOST high school kids were driving themselves or carpooling with friends so seeing only 1-2 high school kids per combined bus wasn’t out of the ordinary. My bus in jr high was mainly jr high kids and maybe 3 high schoolers.

Great intro bro's :D

The mom was pushing for "Trish" to go out with Napoleon because she felt sorry for him. She could see he was a loser and trying hard.

So what happens to the channel if one of you goes to AA? 😂

@DrunkDadsWatch

3 ай бұрын

Luckily we have Eddie and Billy too so we will be fine lol

"F U Dolph Lundgren" too funny

@Cassxowary

Ай бұрын

I mean, he married a girl younger than his older/oldest daughter so…

I hope I like you both because I have never subscribed based on a channels name. 😅 0:56

C'mon, the year this film was displaying is Idaho.

Now you will find yourself quoting this movie a lot

My new film is out. "Deer Camp 86." A Horror Comedy. This flies under the radar but don't miss.

@DrunkDadsWatch

29 күн бұрын

Wait you made a film? Let us know and we will react to it.

There is an end credit scene!

This is 80s boys 😂

Awesome reaction/ can you please watch a movie called ANY GIVEN SUNDAY.

Are you guys Canadian?

@DrunkDadsWatch

3 ай бұрын

No we are New Yorkers

@Cassxowary

Ай бұрын

@@DrunkDadsWatchthat’s also why you’re cool :p (I’m from not far in past the other side of the border to the north but new yorkers are some of the coolest out of all the states)

You need some Mics

Thumbs down for dissing on LaFawnduh.

@DrunkDadsWatch

Ай бұрын

We weren’t dissing that character, just joking around.

with love, you guys arnt good at this :)

@DrunkDadsWatch

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for your opinion

@billyburke1681

Ай бұрын

with love …your opinion blows

@Cassxowary

Ай бұрын

@@DrunkDadsWatchyah everyone’s allowed to be wrong lol

@Cassxowary

Ай бұрын

@@billyburke1681and his spelling too

@Cassxowary

Ай бұрын

with love, it’s aren’t not arnt. You’re the one not good at this (being nice) :)

jesus i had to stop watching because of all the insanely loud clapping directly into the mic, use a compressor or something.

@pamelawilliams3144

3 ай бұрын

Boo hoo

Lafaaanda is a male

@Cassxowary

Ай бұрын

LaFawnduh and no she’s clearly not lol it would be fine if so but it’s not the case

Painful reaction.

@Cassxowary

Ай бұрын

your loss (:

Where do i get that shirt!!!..........you get it when you buy a lama....im D-E-D dead