I think I understand the feeling people have who don’t *get* “Napoleon Dynamite.” I just tried to watch “The Foot Fist Way.” It’s another movie that thinks things are hilarious if they’re just slightly odd. Danny McBride plays Fred Simmons as a mouth-breathing taekwondo instructor with an ironic mustache. His whole image, down to his T-topped muscle car, seems to be derived from “Heavy Metal Parking Lot.”
Random scenes of ineptitude, violence, and swearing are not jokes. Despite the unwavering focus of “The Foot Fist Way” on Simmons, no insight is reached into his character. The affected, demeaning distance of the film makes sure there’s nothing to know, much less care about.
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