Advantages: Jack Black is great as always; it's just a relaxed, funny comedy Disadvantages: Too many fart jokes, not much plot
NachoLibre is the second film from director Jared Hess; his first, Napoleon Dynamite, was a strange indie comedy which became a huge cult classic. This film stars Jack Black (previously seen in School of Rock, King Kong, and the rock band Tenacious D) as the Nacho in question, and a supporting cast of relative unknowns.
Jack Black plays Ignacio, a monk in a Mexican monastery/orphanage. He enjoys looking after the young children, but his cooking duties are leaving him bored and searching for more excitement in his life. Ignacio has a secret passion for wrestling, and one day, he teams up with a poor thief named Esqueleto to create a tag team wrestling combination. By doing this, he becomes his alter ego, Nacho (which I think is short for the name Ignacio, in case you were wondering); complete with stretch trousers, red pants ...
Advantages: funny performances and jack black setting fire to his robe if that is an advantage? Disadvantages: rather dull story line and quick tacky humour?
Advantages: Funny, easy, Jack Black Disadvantages: Predictable, little apart from Black
Been meaning to watch this for ages and realising I'm home alone, ill and need some cheering up this should work brilliantly. NachoLibre was released in 2006 with Jack Black as the star of a wrestling themed religious comedy that was loosely based on the life of a real life reverend in Mexico. Directed by and written by the Hess Brothers (Napoleon Dynamite) the movie featured a pretty highly rated set of comedy personal (which also included Mike White or School Rock fame) as well as the backing cast of a lot of Mexican actors and actresses.
The film, based in Mexico starts off at the orphanage where Nacho (Black) plays a lowly priest and has the role of cooking for the children. Sadly however with their being no money the children get given some disgusting gloop for their meals. When a new nun comes to the orphanage Nacho starts to ...
iamasadlittleboy 09.09.2009
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