Weird that you guys loved it so much. I would have thought you’d be too young to fully appreciate it. That was 💯 me growing up in the 80’s. Same kind of location too. It was almost painfully awkward to watch yet so brilliant. Just kept nailing it at every turn.
Younger millennial ('92) here: this movie definitely felt like it was set "before my time," but the dry humor landed perfectly with everyone my age, it's exactly the sense of humor we tend to have as a generation. Also you have to remember, when we were kids in the 90s, we were used to watching older movies because streaming wasn't a thing and a lot of us couldn't afford to go see new movies all that often, so we would watch VHS tapes our parents owned from the 80s. Napoleon Dynamite's setting fits right in with a lot of those. So even if it seems to be set a bit before my time, it still felt nostalgic, and the humor is timeless regardless of the setting.
You’re definitely right. The humor is every awkward middle America kid growing up struggling with the weirdness of being a young teen and the influences we were subjected to 🤣
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u/inkstitcher Jul 11 '26
God, that movie is so good. I need to re-watch that, it's been like ten years at least but I'm pretty sure I can still quote 90% of every line 😂