Catching on the The London Film Festival fever, Kirsten , Emily and Ricky and I went to see Napoleon Dynamite last night at the Odeon. The movie took off from a previous short film on the same character. The plotline is plain and simple–a parody of a geeky lumphead in the lazy American mid-west bungling life day after day. Yet it is perhaps this simplicity that endears it to audiences. It has already won several film awards and has received a warm applause last evening. As an added bonus, the 27 year old lead star was there and answered a few questions from the audience at the end of the screening.

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The dance routine by Napoleon towards the end of the movie was one of the most ‘interesting’ Ive seen since Saturday Night Fever. Gee whiz, I’m motivated to take dancing lessons now.