Product Description

Jack Black, Peter Stormare, Ana Dela Reguera, Hector JiminezDirectors: Jared Hess

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13093 in DVD
• Brand: Blu-ray Comedy
• Released on: 2009-04-06
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .0 pounds
• Running time: 89 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
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 can’t 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 there’s just not enough here for him to really work with. When he plays a more well-formed character, as in School of Rock and High Fidelity, his strengths really show. But in Nacho Libre he’s saddled with a caricature. Weighed down by too much low-brow humour and a script that goes nowhere, Nacho Libre just can’t make full enough use of Black’s talents to overcome the obstacles. --Daniel Vancini

Synopsis
Celebrating the triumphs and tribulations of the lovable loser is no easy thing, but 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-without-a-clue in Ignacio, played by Jack Black (High Fidelity, King Kong), the title character in Nacho Libre. Ignacio, growing up in a poor monastery in Mexico, has dreamed of being a professional wrestler since childhood. This obsession has led him to a thankless adult existence as monastery whipping-boy and chef, serving stale, day-old nacho chips to finicky orphans. In an effort to earn the respect of new nun-hottie Sister Encarnacion (Ana De La Reguera) and escape the monastery into the greedy excess of pro wrestling, Ignacio enters a local amateur competition. Along the way, he picks up the notably scrawny yet tough street urchin Esqueleto (Hector Jimenez) as his tag-team partner. The duo hilariously loses badly and repeatedly to all manner of local wrestling oddities. It is only when Ignacio recognizes a higher goal than money and glory that he can truly compete with his professional idols, including the dreaded and evil champion Ramses. Co-written with Hess's writing partner and wife, Jerusha, and noted screenwriter Mike White (Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl), Nacho Libre is stocked with real-life wrestlers doing their thing. Jack Black's over-the-top physical humour blends in perfectly with repeated viewings of his "stretchie pants" and timely flatulence. In concert, the elements fuse to distill a comedy that should appeal to all ages eager to be pinned down in a full-nelson by laughter.

Customer Reviews

NACHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Well.
Where to begin... I dislike Jack Black. Well, used to anyway. Hated School of Rock and never bothered with Tenacious D.
Then I saw this movie at the Cinema.
Nacho Libre.
Ok ok, not going to be everyone's cup of tea but boy, I love it. I love everything about. There are so many GREAT one liners dotted throughout the movie too, barely a day goes by without me crying out "Nachoooo" or "I believe in Science".
See, none of that will make any sense to you until you see this movie.
I really do love it.
As for it now being on blu ray, great. The colors are fab, Ramsey looks bigger than ever, Steven looks more of a tramp.
You'll either love it or hate. Go on, take a chance.

XXoxXoox

Comedy??
It's that age old tale, boy sees movie trailer, boy laughs, boy watches movies, boy learns that all the best bits were in the trailer.

The idea behind the film is promising but frankly the execution into a comedy is extremely poor.

The film is too slow paced to fit in with the Jack Black's character, the over the top Nacho and it feels like the comedy moments are thinly spread. The movie is padded out with the film's title music filling the gaps where the writers couldn't be bothered to write something. What little comedy there is appears weak and half hearted with all the emphasis on Jack's shoulders to carry the gag. Hector Jiminez takes up some of the slack as Nacho's sidekick Esqueleto but neither Jack or Hector are under any pressure to perform.

His best comedy role
His best serious role is in Peter Jackson`s King Kong as Carl Denham. His best comedy role must be NACHO. It is really funny and has it`s touching moments. I highly recommend it!