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I just watched Napoleon Dynamite. I was expecting the usual crappy teen movie (a genre I kind of like anyway) but it turned out to be a genuinely entertaining film.

The film has a plot so thin it’s barely there but the real interest is in the characters. The eponymous Napoleon Dynamite, played by Jon Heder, is a study in supreme nerdiness. In fact most of the main characters are painfully awkward.

It seems to have got mixed reviews but if you like quirky humour and you were even slightly nerdy in school I recommend giving it a go.
It also has a great soundtrack. Here’s a sample courtesy of Seeqpod:

The Simpsons Movie opens next week. There has been some great promotional activity for this film including transforming a number of 7-Elevens in America into Kwik-E-Marts selling Squishees and Krusty-Os and a doughnut-brandishing Homer Simpson painted next to the giant on the hill above Cerne Abbas, Dorset.

On the Simpsons movie site you can create your own characters. Here’s me as a Simpson: