It is not often that you leave a film unsure whether you liked what you saw or not. Generally you can tell by the amount of snoring or head-shaking at plot points that you do not like it. It was odd, then, that Napoleon Dynamite left a fairly empty feeling inside. It is funny, but also embarrasing.
The eponymous character is a loser, not the sort of loser who is just non-conformant like in so many US high school films, a genuinely odd loser. His family are stranger, and it can be very uncomfortable to watch them interact.
Just like the film, I’m not sure where to go with this. It’s odd, but not necessarily good or bad.