Nacho Libre

    Nacho Libre
    2006

    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

    Recommendations

    • 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.

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