Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 163
Fresh: 65 | Rotten: 98
At times hilarious, but other times offensive, Director Jared Hess is unable to recapture the collective charisma of his Napoleon characters, instead relying on a one-joke concept that runs out of steam. Sure to entertain the adolescents, however.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 24
At times hilarious, but other times offensive, Director Jared Hess is unable to recapture the collective charisma of his Napoleon characters, instead relying on a one-joke concept that runs out of steam. Sure to entertain the adolescents, however.
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Jared Hess (of Napoleon Dynamite fame) directs this bizarre comedy starring Jack Black as Nacho, a young man who works as a cook in the Mexican monastery where he was raised. When the institution faces a financial crisis, Nacho decides that he must come to the aid of the house of God (as well as the beautiful young nun who has recently joined the order) by competing in the local Lucha Libre tournament. Donning a spandex outfit, mask, and cape, Nacho becomes a hero for the ages -- but can he win
Jun 16, 2006 Wide
Oct 24, 2006
$80.2M
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (173) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (101) | DVD (27)
Imagine my disappointment then, which grew to disbelief, which turned into utter disdain, by the time the credits rolled on this clunker.
Nacho Libre, naïvely made kids' stuff, lacks such minor attributes as a decent script and supporting cast.
Nacho Libre strikes a delicate balance of whimsy and absurdity that may surprise auds primed to expect wall-to-wall slapstick.
The film's sheer lack of everything that customarily passes for comic fuel -- energy, wit, character, fun, a plot -- renders Nacho Libre a torturous patience tester of the first order.
The comedy is hit and miss, with good bits interrupted by dead patches.
After a promising beginning, Nacho Libre goes off the rails with its over-the-top satire and intentional campiness failing to generate many laughs.
A sweet, offbeat movie about caring for others.
Makes you stare first in bemusement, then in boredom, finally in slight nausea
Hess has the most languid sense of comic timing since Bill Murray at his peak.
Nacho Libre merely provides some momentary pleasant diversions.
What is most remarkable about this morally-bankrupt movie is its obvious impropriety of a priest constantly soliciting a nun for sex. And any script having Jack Black in spandex and showing off a belly-full of stretch marks should never have been greenli
Any production featuring Jack Black in spandex and showing off his belly full of stretch marks should never have made it off the drawing board in the first place.
Director Jared Hess' weapon of choice is his innocence.
Physical violence, silliness and gross-out moments (suspect gooey substances flow frequently) abound, but Nacho Libre is not without its occasional charms.
Gives you more reason than ever to love Black's death scene in 1997's The Jackal.
A film with a steady stream of laughter enclosed is a great cure for those with the "World Cup" blues.
Stupid film. I hate Jack Black with a passion. That's all.
December 2, 2011Super Reviewer
Despite some poor moments Nacho Libre performs to the expected standard, with some moments that you just hate, and with others that you just love.Directed by Jared Hess, famous for "Napoleon Dynamite, and also written by him along with Jerusha Hess and Mike White, the film is a strange one. A blend of characters that
August 22, 2011Super Reviewer
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