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Nacho Libre (Special Collector's Edition)
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Format | Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen See more |
| Contributor | Julio Sandoval, Jerusha Hess, Richard Montoya, Cesar Gonzalez, Ana de la Reguera, Jared Hess, Mike White, Hctor Jimnez, Ventura 'Tigre Hispano' Lahoz, Darius Rose, Carlos Maycotte, Rafael Montalvo, Jack Black, Moises Arias, Efren Ramirez See more |
| Language | Spanish |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 32 minutes |
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Jack Black is at his comic best as Ignacio, a disrespected cook at a Mexican monastery that can barely afford to feed the orphans who live there. Inspired by a local wrestling hero, he decides to moonlight as the not-so-famous Luchador "Nacho Libre" to earn money for the monastery -- not to mention the admiration of beautiful nun Sister Encarnacion.
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This Jack Black vehicle seems, on the surface, like a perfect fit for the actor: an opportunity to showcase Black's unique style with the extreme facial gestures and exuberant physicality that have become his forte. Black plays Ignacio, a lowly cook in a monastery in central Mexico who feeds orphans by day, and wrestles in the town square at night. Ignacio teams up with Esqueleto (Hector Jimenez), a street urchin who tormented him, to form a tag-team duo that goes up against the strangest wrestlers Mexico has to offer. Besides doing it for money to feed the orphans, Ignacio is also fighting to win the forbidden affections of Sister Encarnacion (Ana de la Reguera) with predictable difficulty. While the movie has likeable characters and the plot is enjoyable enough, it cant overcome its plodding pace and formulaic structure enough to keep the movie interesting throughout. Jack Black is a very strong comedic actor, and the wrestling scenes offer plenty of chances for slapstick, physical comedy, but watching him run around in red briefs and blue tights amounts to half the laughs in the movie, and theres just not enough here for him to really work with. When he plays a more well-formed character, as in and High Fidelity, his strengths really show. But in Nacho Libre hes saddled with a caricature. Weighed down by too much low-brow humor and a script that goes nowhere, Nacho Libre just cant make full enough use of Blacks talents to overcome the obstacles. --Daniel Vancini
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.57 x 5.35 x 7.58 inches; 2.72 Ounces
- Director : Jared Hess
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 32 minutes
- Release date : October 24, 2006
- Actors : Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Efren Ramirez, Hctor Jimnez, Darius Rose
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- Studio : Paramount
- ASIN : B000HRMAPO
- Writers : Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, Mike White
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #40,696 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #520 in Sports (Movies & TV)
- #5,274 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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To illustrate: I sat down with my oldest daughter to watch the Holy Grail not long ago; it was her first time watching it. When it was over, her response was, "What on earth did I just watch?" Fast forward a couple of weeks, and she sat me down to watch Nacho Libre with her... to which I felt that exact same response was *imminently* appropriate.
So yeah... don't try to analyze it or understand it. Just enjoy the weird humor. That is, after all, exactly what Jack does best.
Ignacio never gave up on his dreams and after seeing a famous wrestler Ramses and all the attention he garnered decides to secretly enter the luchador business. He can’t do it alone however so he finds a partner Steven played by Hector Jimenez, a homeless man that tried to steal chips donated by a restaurant to the orphanage. Steven takes on the luchador name Esqueleto.
The movie has one hilarious moment after another. For instance, Nacho’s job at the church is to make the food. It’s so bad the priests complain they had diarrhea for weeks. There’s the wrestling match when Nacho and Esqueleto take on two midgets who dress and act like demons, and proceed to give Nacho and Esqueleto the beating of their life. Then there’s when Ignacio asks Sister Encarnacion played by Ana de la Reguera on a faux date to preach the gospel to a man. She asks why Ignacio is not wearing his robe. He says it was stinky and he needed to wear his recreation clothes. He then flinches his butt cheeks and tells her that beneath his clothes he is a man and beneath the man is his nucleus.
A bonus to the film is the amazing soundtrack that is included. It’s a mix of Mexican originals and new work by Danny Elfman and Beck. Like any good soundtracks the music enhances each scene. For example when Steven finds himself chased by a woman at a party he crashed and she is giving him a lustful look just the right song comes on.
In the end Nacho actually transforms from someone that just wanted the fame of a luchador to finding meaning in his life and wrestling via a holy mission.
Overall Nacho Libre is a hilarious movie that keeps the laughs going after multiple viewings.
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O.K., latent homo-erotic fantasies aside, this is a very sweet comedy and Jack Black excels in this stand-alone, and increasingly cult comedy classic. Sure, there are some parts that aren't as funny as they could be or that appeal to a certain kind of taste, but I think it's overall storyline is an endearing one and it's motto is plain - "You can come from humble beginnings and even be not the fittest person on the planet, but inside everyone of us is a hero waiting to come out"!
Some people may prefer other Jack Black films ("Kung-fu Panda" springs to mind), but I still think this should be among your collection if you like him.
Wonderfully shot and acted it feels like a conventional heartwarmer, which it is in some ways. But it's the oddness that offsets this and makes it funny. It is the classic deadpan style that Black has adopted for this and it works as most of the laughs are at him trying to be serious. The triumph of the film is the charcter's stalwart adherence to his goal and his simple kindness that ultimately overcomes all obstacles. So we may laugh but he wins in the end.
But even on a truly base level, it's just a really funny film.











