‘Napoleon Dynamite’ doll is hot

A new “Napoleon Dynamite” doll is no Ken. His lips hang open, his eyelids droop, and his jeans are wrinkled and tucked into moon boots.

And he talks – 18 lines, in fact, all from the original 2004 cult film of the same name.

As Napoleon would say, that’s pretty “sweet.”

Creator Jay Kamhi says he tried about five doll sculptors before finding the right man for the job – Paul Brooke of Cincinnati.

“They’d try to make this doll, and it would look good, but it wouldn’t capture his spirit,” says Kamhi, who owns Florida-based Kamhi World Inc. They weren’t, for example, making his eyes look droopy enough, he says.

Napoleon, the main character of the movie about being yourself in high school, had to look just right to show “he’s not a loser, even though some people think he is,” Kamhi says.

The dolls should arrive by the end of the month at Wal-Mart and Urban Outfitters, and will be available for $14.95 at www.funtalking.com. (Also look for a talking pen, which says seven lines for $6.95.)

Kamhi’s daughters, ages 9 and 13, inspired their dad to make the doll after they saw the movie and loved it.

But it’s not just kids who will be buying the dolls.

“It’s the kind of movie you’re probably not a fan of while you’re watching it,” says Virginia resident Kim Etezadi, 28, a public relations coordinator at an investment firm. But, “when it’s over, you can’t stop quoting it.”