Alienated high school nerd Napoleon strikes up a friendship with new guy Pedro and sets out to help him become student body president. If that wasn’t hard enough he has to put up with his Uncle Rico, who has come to take care of him and his brother while his grandma is ill.

This is one of the strangest and funniest films I have seen in a very long time and I will say that “Napoleon Dynamite” is a divider, some will embrace the absurdist humour while others will sit stony faced while the jokes pass them by. The main characters are bizarre while still managing to seem human and likable. It’s a credit to the director and the star that they can take a character that seems to have few social skills and make him the hero of the piece.

The acting is superb; Jon Heder and Aaron Ruell are both outstanding as Napoleon and Kip Dynamite and Jon Gries as Uncle Rico who all seem to be living in a different decade to everyone else.This film has one of ‘the’ best dance sequences I have ever seen, and if that doesn’t make you laugh I think you need to check your pulse.

A wonderfully funny film that not everyone will understand but all should at least watch.

Vote for Pedro!