Synopsis
Nacho Libre is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador. He competed in order to support the orphanage he directed.
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Cast
- Jack BlackNacho
- Ana de la RegueraSister Encarnación
- Héctor JiménezEsqueleto
- Darius RoseChancho
- Moisés AriasJuan Pablo
- Carlos MaycotteSegundo Nuñez
- Richard MontoyaGuillermo
- César BarrónRamses
- Rafael MontalvoElderly Monk
- Julio SandovalSnaggle Tooth Monk
- 80
The New York Times
Endearingly ridiculous. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Black's caped "luchador" grows on you. Like a fun guy. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
An amiably clunky, unapologetically silly summer confection that nevertheless lands sufficient lethal slams to the funny bone. - 63
New York Daily News
The sweetness of Nacho's nature, along with Black's unselfconscious physical enthusiasm, turn all this into a live-action cartoon, with the ring violence having no greater consequence than a Wile E. Coyote fall from a high place. - 63
Chicago Tribune
The film is easy to take and easy to forget, even with Black running around Oaxaca in turquoise wrestling tights. - 50
Village Voice
Nacho Libre plays like a Jack Black best-of, down to the song he wrote and performs for de La Reguera that sounds like some Tejano version of a Tenacious D throwaway. - 50
L.A. Weekly
Like the abominable "Napoleon Dynamite," director Jared Hess' second feature will doubtless capture the hearts and minds of 12-year-old boys everywhere, even if Nacho Libre sacrifices the earlier film's aggressive mean-spiritedness in favor of gentle slapstick lunacy. - 50
Premiere
When he runs out of material to tickle with, Black dips into his musically tenacious "deedle-diddle-dee" for some sure-fire ridiculousness.