This would make for a pretty funny short film, but there's too much filler material here. Save this one for a rental if you're a Jack Black fan.
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06/16/06
Nacho Libre (2006)
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Reviews Counted:159
Fresh:62
Rotten:97
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: At times hilarious, but other times offensive, Director Jared Hess is unable to recapture the collective charisma of his Napoleon characters, instead relying on a one-joke concept that runs out of steam. Sure to entertain the adolescents, however.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $80,197,993
Synopsis: Celebrating the triumphs and tribulations of the lovable loser is no easy thing, but filmmaker Jared Hess seems to thrive in this specific cinematic exercise. Working fresh off the success of... [More]
Starring: Jack Black, Ana DeLa Reguera, Hector Jiminez, Peter Stormare
Director: Jared Hess
Reviews for Nacho Libre
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
It takes some doing to make a Jack Black comedy that doesn't work. But Nacho Libre does it.
06/16/06
Top CriticIf ever there were a one-trick pony, Nacho Libre is it.
06/16/06
Someday, Jared Hess will aspire to make a movie that goes a bit deeper than just a geeky outsider with bad hair, a funny name and an exaggerated accent. But not today.
06/16/06
Very broad and very silly, it's a doodle of a comedy -- a one-joke idea (fat guy goes luchador) padded out to feature length by Black's willingness to do anything for a laugh.
06/16/06
The humor is strictly grade school. The movie is missing the wit and charm Hess, who directs, created for Napoleon Dynamite and White and Black used in School of Rock.
06/16/06
Nacho're best movie, Mr. Black, but you do have some moves and a few laughs.
06/16/06
Another tale (like 'Napoleon Dynamite') of a dreamy misfit seeking recognition and innocent love in an appealingly hermetic land of living cartoon characters.
06/16/06
Straddling one those tiresome lines between caricature and inventiveness, Esqueleto is easily the movie's most engaging presence.
06/16/06
Jared Hess already made the one good movie he had in him. Jack Black needs a director who can save him from character-breaking shtick. The stretchy pants of "Nacho Libre" only go so far before stretchy patience sets in.
06/16/06
there was not enough alcohol or any other conscious-altering substance out there to make this flick bearable
06/16/06
Nacho Libre serves as further evidence to the theory that people will laugh at anything as long as they expect to.
06/16/06
Oh, this is such a gargantuan put-on.
06/16/06
Jared Hess has made another sweet PG-rated movie populated with determined oddballs in surreally timeless settings.
06/16/06
What is least appealing about the Hesses is the sense that they are always laughing 'at' rather than 'with' their characters
06/16/06
Black, making terrific use of his portly physique, throws himself into the role (and into the ring) with the sort of no-holds-barred gusto rarely seen since the heyday of the late John Belushi.
06/16/06
The film is so good-natured and pleasant and simple that I can't not recommend it. It's a disappointment in a lot of ways, but it's sure an upbeat one.
06/15/06
Film Jack Black doing anything for 80 minutes and you're bound to wring a few yuks from the footage, but the chuckles delivered here are distressingly few and far between.
06/15/06
Nacho Libre is such a remarkable improvement over Napoleon Dynamite, someone might want to check the temp in hell and see if it's still toasty down there.
06/15/06
A perfect storm of excessive mugging and catch-phrasery.
06/15/06
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