It’s been six years since Jon Heder charmed America as the awkwardly lovable geek Napoleon Dynamite. Heder will be putting on the moon boots once again, but this time the liger-loving nerd will be hitting the small screen in an animated series on Fox. According to E!:
Fox has ordered up six episodes of the half-hour sitcom and the original main cast is said to be onboard for voice work. The O.G. players included Efren Ramirez as Pedro, Tina Majorino as Deb, Aaron Ruell as Kip and Jon Gries as Uncle Rico.
Although I think the movie is a bit overrated and hated that people kept quoting it for like 18 months, I’m a fan of the film and Heder. It’s not great, but Napoleon Dynamite was fun and a nice debut for writer/director Jared Hess. I had a good time seeing the movie with this completely hot programmer chick from Double Fine. Hmmm, perhaps I like the movie more than I ought to simply because of Anna. Ha!
Anyway, are any of you psyched for Napoleon Dynamite cartoon?
Don’t care at all. I never understood what people saw in that movie. I don’t recall laughing even once. I was told I should watch it several times to appreciate it, or be baked while viewing, but neither sounded appealing to me.
Way over-hyped movie. Not nearly as over-hyped as Avatar, but also not as crappy as Avatar either.
Agreed. I hated Avatar, I still am waiting for a public apology from James Cameron and a refund.
Granted the story was not original but the visuals is what made Avatar awesome.
Hmmm I don't know. I bought it on BluRay and watched it on a 60" Plasma. It didn't seem all that impressive. I think the Tech behind the graphics was the only impressive part, and it didn't seem all that special when put on screen.
You can only reply just so many times????
I thought the story was a straight rip from the Lion King. Not totally sure why but as I watched it that is what it seemed like to me.
I guess the people who made this kind of threading an option weren't expecting people to respond as much as we do to each other. haha.
The story is almost straight up Pocahontas of the future. Conquering a new world with machinery, just like John Smith and guns and stuff like that. Falling in love with one of the natives (John Smith and Pocahontas falling in love), unable to destroy the native civilization and fighting to stop that from happening (again with what John Smith), that giant tree and all the spirit stuff (you guessed it! Pocahontas).
Ok Ok Ok, the IMAX version of Avatar was awesome due to visuals, on a regular or HDTV its just like any other CG movie.
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Sadly I never did make it to the theater to watch it in all its 3d glory. I really wanted to but I just can't stand PEOPLE so I did want to go the see most popular movie ever.
@Slicky;
Aren't you in the restaurant business? Uh, how can you not be able to stand people and be in the hospitality industry?
-M
The tech behind the graphics was cool. I also think it was cool because they used a linguist (sub group of anthropologist) to create a somewhat realistic language for the people (not gonna try to spell it, phonetically na-vee, and I don’t feel like looking it up). The 3D was no more impressive than anything that is already done in every children’s museum around the country. The story was the same as Pocahontas mixed in with weapons from Gears of War and the Matrix Revolutions. I couldn’t stand that movie.
yeah you had to see it in IMAX 3D to enjoy the visuals! they were teh awesumz, like Big Blak said.
see I watched it in 3D and wasn’t impressed. I saw cooler effects at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum IMAX theater 10 years ago.
Ok but did you watch it in IMAX? We also have some of the largest IMAX screens in the world so my experience was pure bliss.
No it was not in IMAX. Just had to wear those dumb 3D glasses. Just like video games though, I prefer story and plot over how awesome the graphics are. I am not a big fan of watching something simply bcz it looks cool. Especially when it is 3 hours long.
It was great eye candy and a completely different experience in an IMAX the-a-tor sir lol.