I may be in a rut. There’s this pattern emerging — a see a good movie, and then I see a bad movie.
This is a bad movie.
I did not think it was possible to find a bad Jack Black movie, but I have. Nacho Libre just isn’t a good movie, as much as I want it to be. Never has been, never will be.
OK, Shallow Hal was pretty bad. But it was really bad.
Black plays Ignacio, a monk who loves wrestling and really doesn’t like being a monk. He wants to be a luchador — a great wrestling performer. After a turn of events, he teams up with Steve, aka The Skeleton, to become Nacho, a masked wrestler. As a team, they are horrible, but they do make money just for participating.
And with the money, Ignacio can buy fresh food for his day job as the cook at the orphanage at the monastery. it’s better than nothing, but it’s still not what Ignacio wants out of life. He wants more. He wants to be a famous wrestler and, well, he also wants the nun that has started to teach at the orphanage. He’s in loooooooove.
With time, he wrestles more, they wrestle more, and they fare better.
It’s not all horrible. The midgets are funny. The crazy love life of The Skeleton is pretty funny. And the movie is rich in the culture of Mexico’s wrestling, which is pretty awesome.
But really, you can skip this. If you’re a hard core Jack Black fan, OK, see it. But everyone else — skip it.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:37 am
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August 16th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Have you seen Be Kind Rewind? Odd at first, but it grew on me. Really though, the only Jack Black movie is School of rock. OK, maybe Balls of Fury too.
August 16th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
School of Rock. And King King.