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Movie Revue: Napolean Dynamite By David Higgs (The Ooze)

Posted by Ed and Lois

What do I think? Well…of all the experiences that have convinced me that I am truly a Grey Beard and that I am completely “nowhere” when it come to my teenagers cultural tastes, this movie is the clearest.

I enjoyed watching my kids laugh at the movie and I laughed a lot a them laughing at the movie. For myself, however, I mostly just sat with my head cocked slightly to the right with a confused look on my face. I remember occasionally shaking my head from side to side and feeling like I was in some sci-fi episode with Rod Serling…“For your consideration…a formally hip middle aged man in a room full of laughing young people. Everyone really gets it but him. He is no longer on the inside. He is no longer ahead of the curve…he had suddenly found himself in…The Twilight Zone.”

They tell me I had a glazed look on my face, and was muttering something about fruit in my oatmeal, when they realized something was wrong, terribly wrong. Apparently my son helped me out of the room and into my recliner with some assistance from my daughter. When I came to I had a cool cloth on my forehead and a cold, freshly poured, glass of Ensure in my trembling hands.

After 3 or 4 episodes of The Andy Griffin Show and 2 re-runs of Hawaii 5-0, I was back to normal, at least for me.

Still, sometimes late at night, I will wake up in a cold sweat…and feel afraid and strangely empty inside. The counselor says this will eventually pass, after the second round of shock treetment.

I guess it could have been worse, I could have been watching it alone. Anyway I will not try watching it again…I can’t affore the brain cells.

At least that was this Grey Beard’s (near death) experience with Napoleon Dynamite