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This Jack Black vehicle seems, on the surface, like a perfect fit for the actor: an opportunity to showcase Black's unique style with the extreme facial gestures and exuberant physicality that have become his forte. Black plays Ignacio, a lowly cook in a monastery in central Mexico who feeds orphans by day, and wrestles in the town square at night. Ignacio teams up with Esqueleto (Hector Jimenez), a street urchin who tormented him, to form a tag-team duo that goes up against the strangest wrestlers Mexico has to offer. Besides doing it for money to feed the orphans, Ignacio is also fighting to win the forbidden affections of Sister Encarnacion (Ana de la Reguera) with predictable difficulty. While the movie has likeable characters and the plot is enjoyable enough, it can’t overcome its plodding pace and formulaic structure enough to keep the movie interesting throughout. Jack Black is a very strong comedic actor, and the wrestling scenes offer plenty of chances for slapstick, physical comedy, but watching him run around in red briefs and blue tights amounts to half the laughs in the movie, and there’s just not enough here for him to really work with. When he plays a more well-formed character, as in School of Rock and High Fidelity, his strengths really show. But in Nacho Libre he’s saddled with a caricature. Weighed down by too much low-brow humour and a script that goes nowhere, Nacho Libre just can’t make full enough use of Black’s talents to overcome the obstacles. --Daniel Vancini
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Well.
Where to begin... I dislike Jack Black. Well, used to anyway. Hated School of Rock and never bothered with Tenacious D.
Then I saw this movie at the Cinema.
Nacho Libre.
Ok ok, not going to be everyone's cup of tea but boy, I love it. I love everything about. There are so many GREAT one liners dotted throughout the movie too, barely a day goes by without me crying out "Nachoooo" or "I believe in Science".
See, none of that will make any sense to you until you see this movie.
I really do love it.
As for it now being on blu ray, great. The colors are fab, Ramsey looks bigger than ever, Steven looks more of a tramp.
You'll either love it or hate. Go on, take a chance.
XXoxXoox
Where to begin... I dislike Jack Black. Well, used to anyway. Hated School of Rock and never bothered with Tenacious D.
Then I saw this movie at the Cinema.
Nacho Libre.
Ok ok, not going to be everyone's cup of tea but boy, I love it. I love everything about. There are so many GREAT one liners dotted throughout the movie too, barely a day goes by without me crying out "Nachoooo" or "I believe in Science".
See, none of that will make any sense to you until you see this movie.
I really do love it.
As for it now being on blu ray, great. The colors are fab, Ramsey looks bigger than ever, Steven looks more of a tramp.
You'll either love it or hate. Go on, take a chance.
XXoxXoox
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
His best serious role is in Peter Jackson`s King Kong as Carl Denham. His best comedy role must be NACHO. It is really funny and has it`s touching moments. I highly recommend it!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is an ok movie and Jack Black shows the promise he started in movies like School of Rock but the end product is more amusing than laugh out loud funny.
Black plays Ignacio the good hearted friar in a Mexican orphanage who has been a fan of the 'luchadors'since he was a child and now is the cook but has no money to feed the orphans and other monks properly.
The best parts of this movie are the wrestling sequences and Ignacio and his skinny partner are beaten regularly by different tag teams but he manages to make cash to buy better food.The script by School of Rock scribe Mike White and director Jared'Napoleon Dynamite'Hess is good and does portray the masked lucha libre as something honourable and not too jokey.
Black is good and is funniest when dressed in his wrestling garb but the film itself isnt the all conquering laugh fest it sits sometimes a bit uncomfortably in not knowing what it wants to be a comedy or drama.Worth watching for Black alone.
Black plays Ignacio the good hearted friar in a Mexican orphanage who has been a fan of the 'luchadors'since he was a child and now is the cook but has no money to feed the orphans and other monks properly.
The best parts of this movie are the wrestling sequences and Ignacio and his skinny partner are beaten regularly by different tag teams but he manages to make cash to buy better food.The script by School of Rock scribe Mike White and director Jared'Napoleon Dynamite'Hess is good and does portray the masked lucha libre as something honourable and not too jokey.
Black is good and is funniest when dressed in his wrestling garb but the film itself isnt the all conquering laugh fest it sits sometimes a bit uncomfortably in not knowing what it wants to be a comedy or drama.Worth watching for Black alone.
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Comedy Genius!
If I could give this film ten stars, I surely would! It's absolutely hilarious. I put it on whenever there is nothing worth watching on TV (which is quite often really) and laugh... Read more
Published 4 months ago by CLINT McGAVIN
El gordo es gracioso
Another quasi-indie hit that was really always set for success due to the inclusion of the comedy antics of Jack Black. Read more
Published 9 months ago by ratmonkey
Just not that funny.
Ever since he was a child, Ignacio has been obssesed with wrestling and dreams of being a luchadore. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mark G.
mega funny
Just love this film....Jack Black is very very funny in this. I actually found this funnier the second time around that I watched it. Recommended.
Published 17 months ago by I. Vanburgh
great film
bought this film for 2 sons on recommendation of a friend,they absolutely love it, jack black is hilarious, school of rock was favourite film, i think this has taken over. Read more
Published 21 months ago by ChrisH
UTTER CACK!
This so called film is UTTER CACK! WHAT WAS GOING ON! just complete nonsense from start to finish,JOKES CACK, ACTING CACK,STORY CACK, JACK CACK! Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2010 by STEVEN RUSSELL
Jack Black has potentially ruined his career...and the career of...
If you want to see a film which is meant to be funny, have no laughs what so ever then this is the film for you. Read more
Published on 2 Dec 2009 by AMW
Nacho libre - free your time don't bother
Expected a lot more from Jack Black on this one. Thank heavens the HD-DVD version I purchased was cheap - a boring, not very funny time. Read more
Published on 8 May 2009 by Mr. H. P. Pitfield
Most unfunny
There is a reason why this flick is so cheap: I wouldn't watch it again if they'd pay me for it.
Published on 16 April 2009 by FlickBoy
Very good
Jack Black is a funny dude and proves and plays this role really well. It is a good clean funny family fun-filled film. I've seen it twice and was stil laughing the second time. Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2008 by Prolific Reader
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