Dyno-NOT!

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Starring: Crispy Glover, Jon Gries Directed by: Jared Hess Rating: PG Genre: Comedy Other

Review Now is the winter of my discontent as I watch yet another mediocre seventies television show "adapted" for the big screen. Good Times starred the inimitable Esther Rolle (Good Times) as the mother of the loveable, mentally-challenged J.J. whose spastic enthusiasm for life managed to bubble through the tacky sets and creaky vaudeville scripts. From what bibulous nightmare Nike admeister Hess conjured the concept of weirdball Crispy Glover as J.J. is probably best left to his crack team of round-the-clock therapists. Let us pray that this misguided rat pellet disintegrates quickly and we are spared the sight of Christopher Walking donning the legendary guano-stained coat of the master-sleuth Columbo!