Nacho Libre (DVD)

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 duties are leaving him bored and searching for more excitement in his life. Ignacio has a secret passion for wrestling, and one day, he teams up with a poor thief named Esqueleto to create a tag team wrestling ...

Ignacio is a tubby Mexican friar in charge of cooking meals for the orphans. He's a simple man who harbours a secret ambition, to become a famous wrestler. Increasingly frustrated by the lack of fresh ingredients for his orphans' dinners, he teams up with a local urchin to try and earn some cash. It's just occurred to me that I've just described The Blues Brothers for the wrestling world, and that's not a bad way to look at the film. There's an awesome soundtrack (Mr Loco's 'Religious Man' permeates a lot of the film and it's been stuck in my head ever since, but in a good way), a fat guy and a skinny guy, and lots of bizarre scenes which don't really make ...

There’re some movie stars that divide an audience more than a Terry’s Chocolate Orange. In the field of comedy this is even truer as one persons rib tickling funny man would drive another person to throw themselves out of the nearest window, no matter how many stories up they are. Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Will Ferral have all risen to the top of their profession even though 50% of people can not stand their films. In recent years another actor has risen from the comedy ranks to try and become one of these love them or hate them stars – Jack Black. With as many good films, ‘School of Rock’, as bad ‘Orange County’, the jury is still out on whether he ...