Nacho Nice

The shiny sky blue poster with a leaping red Jack Black had long been designated wallpaper on my daughter's desktop, and later on beckoned to me while I was out malling by my lonesome yesterday. This couldn't possibly be as unpromising as the movie trailer.. I said to myself and so, I went in to Cinema 1 and sat down to Nacho Libre.

Let's get straight to the point: the gratuitous buttcrack flash was present, along with farting, dumping and a load of crap, thrown in to the picture. So what's new with the latest Jack Black? Nothing great, really.

The story revolves around Nacho, this maniacal-eyed, crappy monastery cook who dreamed to become and eventually moonlighted as a luchador (Mexican wrestler) in a funky home-made costume. With his take home pay he bought better ingredients to cook for the orphans and priests in the monastery (that didn't know of his moonlighting activities), and became a champion for the boy Chancho, his monastery accomplice, and his amore Sister Encarnacion (a saintly version of Penelope Cruz), whom he wanted to impress.

The unlikely premise, set on a backdrop of rustic rural Mexico, scored with some campy folk music that tended to stay stuck like the dreaded last song syndrome, played up some considerable annoyance factor for the movie, and thus provided a great potential for the it to be funnily absurd as the director wanted to happen. Unfortunately, it fell flat and certainly short on the fun it so contrived to offer.

Sure I'd make mention of Nacho's anorexic-looking sidekick Esqueleto, who reminds me of someone I know, which is really funny. I also greatly suspect that the guy is none other than Gollum's body double for Lord Of The Rings.

For all his efforts, I wish I could tell my daughters to go see Jack Black's latest movie, but I honestly cannot go that far to do disservice to both my kids and Jack because you know that the guy did his best, there was really nothing wrong with him. There's just something about the movie, or the popcorn, which I couldn't even finish. It probably would have been better if I had company.

Filed Under: Movies

Tags: Jack Black, Nacho Libre