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Nacho Libre

Nacho Libre (2006)
Director: Jared Hess

This is not a funny movie. At all. There were about 3 laughs in the entire movie and even those were fart jokes (good ones, but still fart jokes).

Jack Black is a funny funny man. How on earth did they ever make him so unfunny in this movie? I think it had a lot to do with his co-star Héctor Jiménez. The guy is completely void of any humor, charisma, or charm. Nothing about him is something you want to watch for 2 hours. I think he was cast largely because he looks funny. The director seems to like ridiculous caricatures of people; it could work under better direction but it didn’t work in Napoleon Dynamite, and it doesn’t work here.

The plot is this: Jack black is a friar who works as a cook at an orphanage. In the evenings he puts on a mask and moonlights as a wrestler to pay for food for the orphans. Sounds like a good movie in the making. But just wait until you see it; you will be unpleasantly surprised.

The wrestling scenes could have been much funnier, they really lacked any energy and kind of reminded me what a wrestling scene looks like when filmed by 4th graders (but with a little better editing). I think this film was afraid to offend someone. There was a scene where Jack Black tries to hit this lady with a huge upright bass. When I saw that happen I said to myself: "Haha!!! Finally a funny scene" but then he missed and hit someone else and I said "Great. I haven’t seen that a million times before."

My rating: 2 out of 5

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