Reviews of Nacho Libre

Nacho Libre - Film Review

Posted : 3 months, 2 weeks ago on 6 September 2009 04:22 (A review of Nacho Libre)

Wrestling is not something i generally associate with priests, and wrestling priests is not something id associate with comedy.

The film follows Jack Blacks character Ignacio, as he goes from the monasteries disliked cook, to hero of the orphanage. Ignacio is a typical Jack Black character a disliked, guy who dreams of better things, that by the end of the film he has accomplished in generally humorous way. next is the character of Sister Encarnación a newly arrived tutor to the orphans, there is obviously some connection between Jack Blacks character and this one although as a Nun and a priest naturally they cant be in a relationship. Next is Steven, Steven is a street thief who steals the orphans bag of broken tortilla chips, its clear at this point he has some wrestling skills as he wrestles Jack Black to the ground.

Later on Ignacio goes back to Steven to ask him to be part of a wrestling team to make money for the orphanage, after deciding to meet Ramses, a famous wrestling champion, they break into his party to talk to him, they are prominently thrown out killing Ignacios hero worship of Ramses. and so the two compete in a number of wrestling matches to gain the ability to fight Ramses.

much like Jared Hess’s Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre is very hit and miss with its comedy, it looks strained, like it should just be a short sketch or maybe a one off TV show. Maybe the fact its a Nickelodeon movie caused the comedy to be off, but comedy doesn’t have to be rude to be funny, School of Rock was a brilliant movie. This film seems to be one of those people think is hilarious or not funny at all, unfortunately, I fall in to the latter category.

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A steamy pile of shit!

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago on 28 October 2008 12:41 (A review of Nacho Libre)

This movie was horrible not just because of JackBlack the script was pure shite Nach libre made me vomit that's how crappy this glorified shit heap was.
Firstly horrible story line which made no real sense two it was full of scenes which were desperate to be funny so they just made it look horrible.
Finally the way it is executed you could get five year olds to be better.

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Don't Bother

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago on 22 March 2008 09:06 (A review of Nacho Libre)

I never found this funny at all i like wrestling but this was silly. The story plot has Jack Black fighting to be a wrestler for some orphans. The movie just bored me to death i like Jack Black he is funny but this movie is his worst i have seen.

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Nacho Libre review

Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago on 24 October 2007 01:06 (A review of Nacho Libre)

I was surprised with this film. I was expecting something so stupid it would not make me laugh and wish I hadn't of spent my precious energy on it. Turned out to be the opposite. I actually laughed. Not only that it was a good quaint film although I think that if it wasn't for Jack Black's antics and facials it wouldn't have been as good. Don't get me wrong, the other characters added something to it, especially Jimenez, but still Black helped it along.

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