I thought the same thing. Glad it wasn't just me. I watched it becuase some of my Pascagoula trip mates were raving about it.

It's no Breakfast Club or Bueller's Day Off. But it does have that geeks rule thing going for it. Course that puts it squarely in the Revenge of the Nerds class, but not as funny.

I really didn't get it either... though I am training to be a cage fighter.

Ever read "The Emperor's New Clothes"? Same idea on a societal level. People just say it is cool so they look like they get it when it really is pointless.

I recommend that you watch it again. The second time around, you won't be waiting for clever plot twists and the like; you can simply savor the absolutely cheezy characters. Cracked me up the second time, particularly Napoleon's brother.

.. nope... you pretty much got it...

... but Jim is right... the more you watch it, the more sadly addictive it becomes... hell, after four times, even "I" wanted to vote for Pedro....

Oh thank God. I thought I was the *only* one who didn't think it was the "funniest, bestest movie ever made!!!" Bleh. Did nothing for me.

I gave up on it about 20 minutes in. 20 minutes I will never get back.

Just put on Underworld. Kate Beckinsale in tight leather. yummy!

I watched it with my son, a 15 year old. We both sat through it with hardly a smile. Then the next day, apropos of nothing at all, he and I started passing a few "Gohhhhhds" back and forth, and laughing hysterically every time.

The movie is funnier in retrospect than in real time. Strange, but apparently true.

Yeah, it *does* have a small measure of quotability going for it, but that's about all.

Harvey, you're right - the quotability is about all it's got going for it (and I should know *wink*) but I do agree with everyone else - I mean, how could you not laugh at some moron who walks around with tater tots zipped up in his pocket and is friends with a retard who shaves his head and then walks around with a woman's wig on cause he's trying to get votes???

I watched this movie and kept waiting for it to get funny...

I'm still waiting...

The whole thing about "ha! I knew a guy like that in high school" bugs me too.

I knew a guy like that. Didn't like his stupid ass back then, either.

I think my problem with this is that having an awkward social moment is only funny if the protaganist eventually realizes his mistake, or if the protaganist's awkward way turns out to be more effective than the social norm (e.g. Crocodile Dundee's "That's not a knife... THIS is a knife").

To have a situation where the protaganist is a dork but doesn't realize it isn't very funny. To make an entire movie out a string of these situations that aren't even connected by a plot...

Well, that's Napoleon Dynamite.

When I watched that movie, I thought that just has to be what Herbey was/is like... fuckin wanker!

Yeah, I'm a wanker, but at least I'm not a mouth-breathing wanker :-P