Everything Wrong With Napoleon Dynamite in 14 Minutes or Less 

Bold of you to assume there’s anything wrong with this masterpiece

So this movie was made for $400,000 and it made over $46,000,000 at the worldwide box office. In terms of percentage gross it is a phenomenal success.

That Tupperware exploding when he's demonstrating how durable they are then just speeding off never fails to make me laugh

I kept hearing about this movie, and people quoting lines from it, so I finally bought the DVD a few years ago. I love it! It's now one of my all-time favorite comedies.

Can we appreciate that most of these actors were near or in their 30s playing children but they actually did look like teenagers

Having grown up only around 60 miles from where this was filmed, can confirm many people not only dressed like this in the early 2000's, but indeed wore fanny packs.

The best part of this whole video is that every single sin can be disproved just by visiting Preston once. Or pretty much any town in Idaho

Fun fact: this movie was extremely popular in my very-Mormon high school and I once asked a boy to a dance by drawing his yearbook picture and writing "There's more where this came from if you go to the dance with me" on the back.

As someone who went to a southern Idaho high school I can guarantee you that the new John Deer would in fact be big news for a noticeable chunk of the student body.

"Why couldn't they set this movie in the 80s or 90s?" It's about Preston Idaho. They not scheduled to enter the 2000s until sometime in the next five years.

"Back in the day I would have been able to throw the football over them mountains" - Uncle Rico

I like how literally half the sins were about the food😂

Can confirm Idaho is still like this today in 2021. They never left the 80’s-90’s.

I was 8 months pregnant the first time I watched this and when Rico hit him on the bike with the steak, I swear I laughed so hard I thought I was going to go into labor

I was born in 2004, the year my mom graduated highschool and happen to be an Idaho native, so I can surely say that this is completely accurate and it is still like this in Idaho. Frozen in time but the potatoes make up for it ig.

The randomness of this movie make it so great to me. Like kips chips getting more and more covered with cheese in every shot, the farmer shooting the cow and the kids screaming, the random gangbanger dudes in nowhere Idaho and so on. Can’t believe it’s already 16 years old. Still a classic I still watch once in a while.

"Why couldn't they just set this movie in the '80s or '90s???" I was in Preston last week and they're still in the '80's

Napoleon Dynamite is a masterpiece of its own, risky territory man

This movies is honestly flawless. Everything has a setup and pay off. Every character has an arc, characterization, and personality. The movie is also very funny and quotable. The post credit scene is a perfect cherry on top. 10/10 comedy film I personally can't find anything wrong with. Oh and I love the music! OST and licensed!

I remember the days when Cinema Sins actually sinned mistakes, clichés, and plots that made no sense, etc. I don't know what this is...

I've quoted Kip saying "your mom goes to college" way more than I like to admit.

“Everything wrong with Napoleon Dynamite in 14 Minutes or Less” I was expecting this video to be 0 minutes or less

I always remember watching this movie when I had bad anxiety attacks and times when I couldn’t sleep, it was so cozy for some reason

Hearing Jamiroquai’s “Canned Heat” as Napoleon danced was my gateway to EDM and exploring other music. I will be forever grateful to this movie for that.

The farmer killing the cow is actually killing the cow for napoleon’s family. Before grandma leaves she says they’re running low on steak and Lyle would be coming over. The farmer killing the cow is Lyle

That’s Preston High School. That’s the real color scheme. I’m removing a sin from the movie but I will grant it for the school itself.

Napoleon Dynamite is a comedic masterpiece! One of the funniest movies ever! Jon Heder’s facial and vocal expressions is what made this film what it is! 😂

This movie was so good that when I first watched it I was high as a kite and didn't care for it, but the next time, when I was stone cold sober, it became my favorite movie, and the only movie I've ever bought just for me.

How DAAAAARRREEE you sin the best line from the entire movie? "Your mom goes to college.."

"How much you want to make a bet I can throw a football over those mountains" 💪🏉

8:01 Fun Fact: Jon Gries is (or at least was at the time of filming) a vegetarian, and he did not eat any of the steak. In the scene where he talks about throwing a football over the mountain, you can actually see him spit a piece into his hand when he turns around to sit on the porch step.

Honestly that dance scene should’ve reset the sin counter to zero

Mismatched lockers in garish colors is the most public school thing in this movie.

This was filmed in Preston Idaho some teens totally care about John deere tractors and the rodeo. I grew up an hour away and I had classmates mates drive tractors to school regularly. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🤣

I’m from Idaho and just so you know there is not a soul here that hasn’t seen this movie. This is a masterpiece and I hear it talked about very often. The exterior of Napoleon’s house is my friend’s grandparents house.

One brilliant touch was the Summer "skit" dance sequence - that looked *EXACTLY* like how midwestern high school dance teams would do it. Totally realistic. Not these glitzy *talented* production numbers like you usually see. Just some normally-proportioned high school girls awkwardly going through some steps...

Kips song at his wedding is one of my favorite scenes. "I love technology, but not as much as you see, but I still love technology. Always and forever, always and forever."

As someone who grew up in rural Idaho I can 100% confirm that student body elections included skits. I actually was elected activity manager in 7th grade after giving Pedro's speech and doing Napoleon's dance because of course.

Every time I watch this movie I see a part I’ve never seen before

In middle school, there was a talent show every year, and the teachers always did something together. My eighth grade year, they all got "vote for pedro" shirts, red curly wigs, glasses, and skinny jeans, and did the napoleon dynamite dance. It's still one of the best things I've ever seen at a school. 🤣 The teacher at the front got super into it and her wig ended up falling off, but she already had red curly hair, so it still looked the same. Lol, it was so great.

The dance scene is a cinematic masterpiece

"Idaho is not a real place" - CinemaSins 2013

"Thats racist even for idaho" nope not even the worst

Can't skip the Uncle Rico monologue about going pro and what could have been, it's probably the best scene in the movie.

Damn you... every single time I’m watching a movie, all I can hear is your voice sayin’ : Fifteen seconds of logos Narration That’s racist Ooooooh Oh wait Ex-machina Roll credits !

The tetherball ending with "The Promise" playing was the best movie ending of all time.

My wife was pissed when I brought this movie home. She laughed for the entire movie. We watched 10 times!

Wrong about 4:48. Our PE teacher would take us into the gym, drop a few basketballs on the floor, and go back to his office for an hour.

Everyone in Utah and Idaho has been forced to watch this movie with their moms at LEAST 15 times, myself included

I live about 15 minutes from Preston, and I’m the typical farming community teenager, yes a new John Deere is still somewhat big news for at least part of the school. That famous Preston night rodeo is still a huge standout highly anticipated loved event for many people in the summer.

"Watch out for your cornhole, bud" was the funniest part of this 😂😂😂😂😂

I like how a whole minute and thirty seconds are just him sinning the beginning credits

“This is Idaho, not central Florida” As a Floridian, I agree with your assessment

Napoleon Dynamite was pretty much the most perfect movie ever made.

Bold of you to assume schools don’t use cheese graders as toilet paper. 8:30

The movie's apparent skewed sense of era has to do with the fact that the aughts were very much just that: A skewed era. You had a mish mash of 70s, 80s and 90s leftover during that period, especially if you lived in poorer areas, regardless if it was urban or rural. Fun fact: This was actually a point raised during production, with someone wanting clarity on when the movie took place, so they conceived of the intro credits where Napoleon's school ID would show the year. The Dynamites live in a very rural lower middle class area of Idaho with their grandma, whose house would easily be a time capsule of older decades. The entire town would no doubt feel much the same way. And yes, I have been in shitty stores where there were massive piles of crappy scissors for sale. I don't know why it was a thing then, it may still be a thing now. "Time After Time" was far more likely to be played at a high school during the aughts than anything by Nelly. The likelihood of teenagers dry humping at a school dance was next-to-nil; most teenagers don't even dance at school dances. Napoleon grew up in rural Idaho, and Pedro grew up in northern Mexico, both very agrarian areas. It stands to reason they grew up involved in farm work at some point in their lives; we also see Napoleon getting involved in farm work with the chicken farm, so it could be implied they moved onto cattle at some point. Movies don't show everything and stories often leave many things unspoken and implied.

I live 15 minutes away from where this movie was shot. Can confirm High Schools do skits when running for president. And yes one of them dressed as Nopolean and did the dance.

Having grown up in Preston, I can confirm that the high school still looks almost exactly the same including the mismatched lockers and auditorium

This is my favorite movie ever. I still quote it to this day, especially “your mom goes to college” when I’ve run out of other quippy insults. It’s just a stupid movie, the good kind of stupid, and I love it.

This is movie is very charming, Jon Heder is well cast in this role.

Hearing "time after time" is 100% accurate at school dances there

2:36 Shared one of these lockers before - the bottom one is meant to be handicap accessible. If the school district doesn't have any need for the locker, they'll usually get assigned to someone else anyway, sometimes short ladies request 'em.

@0:58 this kind of baking tray is meant to symbolise how at the end of kitchen clean up there are leftovers they place on random trays and its a first come first served to a few select staff

I remember seeing this in the theater, and thinking, "what the hell did I just watch?" After it was over.

The chapstick scene will never fail to make me laugh

11:43 you can see a cast/crew members leg in the reflection of the phone.

I love this movie! This was mandatory viewing in FFA. And tbh, your sinning was hilarious! Loved it! Kind of got a feeling the cinema sins guy enjoys this movie as well 😉

Trapper keeper is the "mullet" of the school world. Party on the outside business on the inside.

Napoleon Dynamite is not a period piece. Preston, Idaho is just like that. They were absolutely wearing fanny packs and using rollerblades between using dial-up internet sessions in 2004. The fact that this movie isn't set in the 80s/90s is pretty much the entire point of the movie. The movie is about a rural town of poor people that are stuck in the past, but are struggling to change and grow. It's why it works. IRL, the entire town lives like the only store on earth is the DI, and if you don't know what DI is, then you haven't been to Preston. (It's the Mormon Salvation Army, also its in the dang movie you hack frauds)

I love how he's sinning a movie that was mostly improv.

title: everything wrong with Napoleon dynamite me: impossible

i don't think people understand that this is played for laughs, Jeremy himself stated "We're not critics, we're assholes"

A new Trapper Keeper was the best part of going back to school each year.

4:40 ...dragged? Dude, tractor 🚜

Maybe one day someone can explain to me how an entire sect of the population was convinced this movie was not utter dog shit

The “Amazon employee’s” line was too real and got me lol

You missed the part where Summer used the Happy Hands group for her dance, but Napoleon is actually in the Happy Hands earlier in the film.

6:03 John Heder said that was genuinely sore

The school where this was filmed already had the lockers like that and years later after the movie tried to get rid of them to go with the typical bland monochromatic lockers you mentioned but to public outcry and changed them back to the ones from the movie

A funny thing about the actor who plays Uncle Rico - at the time of filming, he was a vegetarian, so if you watch closely you can see him spitting the steak out into the napkin in the scenes he’s in. I think that almost makes his character even funnier.

Now that I actually look at uncle Rico, he's the perfect example of a stereotype uncle, all he needs is some kid in the basement.... if they had one

The entire movie is a WIN and is on the wrong channel

Kip backing over the bowl and it exploding had me absolutely dead in the theatre when I first saw this

Ya know, one of the most interesting things about this movie, is that it actually broke Netflix's prediction algorithm. For those that are unaware, Netflix used to use a 5star rating system, one star for hated and 5 stars for loved it. The algorithm would take your ratings from the stuff you watched, and could realistically predict what else you would like to watch, based on what you like versus what others liked who rated things the same as you. Napoleon Dynamite broke the algorithm, because it got almost zero ratings that were in the 2-4 star range. It was either 1star or 5star. Not only that, but it didn't even fit the predictive algorithm, because more often than not, the prediction on who would like it or not was wrong. In fact, this movie (and a couple others like it) broke the predictive algorithm so badly, that Netflix (for a while) was even offering a million dollars to anyone who could improve the predictive algorithm by as little as 10%.

This movie is perfect, case in point.

12:30 well...uh...actually...my Jr High AND Highschool both required a skit and had none of the candidates gave speeches. Anyone else have the same experience? No? Okay

12:22 is so on point, but then again Summer looks like the type of person who thinks cumin is ghost pepper.

If you sin this movie you will definitely get a round house kick from Rex wearing those bad boy parachute pants.

I have been waiting for this day! I live in Preston my grandma's house is at 4:00 minutes! My mom was offered the role of lawfwanda but denied it cause "I don't act" is what she told me. That highschool is Preston high and yes the lockers really do look like that! I went to the highschool and everyone always comments on them. This town still thrives in Napoleon Dynamite stuff I even have chapstick they gave the schools.

“ your mom goes to college” is the best line in the whole movie! 😂

“Your mom went to college” cracks me up every time! 😅😂

I adore how you sinned the food logic for 2 minutes straight lolz.

It’s funny how he took a point off for the lockers when that’s just the way the lockers looked in the school. Also the school bus cow shooting scene was a real experience the director had

I’ll never forget the first time I watched Napoleon Dynamite in Dec 2004 the first time I ever got drunk. Drank 4 smirnoffs and threw up in my friends yard. Memories

When we had a ranch, we just butchered the steers in the field.

This movie and UHF are some of my favorite movies because of the sheer awkwardness of it and the level of comedy it pull off through that awkwardness.

Fun fact. The teacher back stage was the directors old drama teacher and was my creative arts professor lol. She included the movie as one of our “performances” to watch lol

YES!

"Over-magneting the fridge" *ding* *glances towards the kitchen*

No matter how many times I watch the movie it never gets old Also my dad will sit through this whole movie just to watch Napoleon dance