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Advantages: Hilarious, Jack Black under control Disadvantages: Incredibly silly, naturally
...The gallery of grotesques that Nacho and Squeletto encounter as they struggle towards the big time are a particular highlight of the film. Whether they're genuine wrestlers or the result of the costume designer smoking some particularly potent crack, I have no idea, but they are brilliant, from the midget monsters up to the imposing lipstick daubed colossus Rameses.
One of my favourite aspects of the film is the way in which the two heroes at no ...
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Advantages: Jack Black is great as always; it's just a relaxed, funny comedy Disadvantages: Too many fart jokes, not much plot
Nacho Libre 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 ...
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Advantages: Laugh-out-loud funny slapstick shenanigans Disadvantages: You'll hate it if you're looking for a story or highbrow comedy
...chuckle. So when you see Nacho speeding along on his motor-trike gazing around, you know he's going to go flying over a cliff and he does. Though the comedy may be broad and the characters exaggerated, Hess still has clear affection for them, which means you root for Nacho and his wrestling partner throughout. Hess revels in the ludicrousness of the world of Lucha Libre in all its tights and mask-wearing glory. Nacho and Esqueleto's opponents are ...
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Advantages: Jack Black in the wrestling scenes Disadvantages: Story, plot, characters..everything really!
...the orphanage to teach and Nacho now has another distraction in his once small and isolated little world. How will he cope with his normal jobs, hiding his training from the other monks, the actual training and the way he feels about the Sister.
It is hard to imagine exactly what audience Nacho Libre is aimed at, it is not as outrageously over the top as previous Jack Black films, or as non pc as such fare as Old School, Anchorman etc. Its audience ...
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Advantages: Jack Black Disadvantages: not enough to make a good script or wrestling film
if you've seen the trailer then you've seen the best bits of this film. as a jack black fan i wanted to see this and was disappointed with it.
jack plays Ignacio, a priest who becomes a luchadore wrestler to raise money for the orphans he cares for. Money is tight there and they struggle to find food which Ignacio cooks (incredibly badly) for the kis and other monks.
that's pretty much the whole plot apart from how he finds that his luchadore ...
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Advantages: Little round fat kid Disadvantages: Unexciting, slow, sedated
Jack Black can't be boring? Can he? Why is Jack Balck boring in this film mummy? Just a few questions you'll be asking yourself during this film.
So the idea is Jack is a monk who is also a wrestler who fancies a nun. He asses about in a sedated manner wrestling flirting and making sedated follies. That's right the film is sedated it has some funny moments. I mean it has a little obese kid in it strugling to keep up with the other kids (In my ...
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Advantages: FUNNY, FUNNY AND FUNNY Disadvantages: One small clip which I felt could stop younger children watching it
This is a really funny film, starring Jack Black has a friar who has hidden dreams to become a wrestler. Every day he has been serving a disgusting meal up for the orphans in the monastry, so he tries to think of a way of getting extra money. By chance happening Ignacio (Jack Black) becomes a wrestler but has to keep it away from the monks at the monastry. This film is hilarious, we had to turn up the volume because my son and husband were laughing ...
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Nacho Libre [2006]
Release Date: 2006-12-04, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
NACHO LIBRE
Celebrating the triumphs and tribulations of the lovable loser is no easy thing, but
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filmmaker Jared Hess seems to thrive in this specific cinematic exercise. Working fresh off the success of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, Hess finds a similarly endearing hero-wit...
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