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pointless and flakey
Jack Black was great in School of Rock. But he is more of a liability than an asset in his recent movies including King Kong and now Nacho Libre. I popped this into the player and sat back wondering what the hell was going on. Besides the pointless plot, the movie is just not funny. Watching Black run around shirtless, occansionally farting, and getting beat up is only funny for so long. The HD DVD picture quality was decent, but it certainly did not make this movie worth watching.

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I Hope You Like Fart Jokes
Nacho Libre is a film practically made for the hipster white male crowd. It's one of those films that is so clever and silly that it's supposed to be good. Unfortunatly, it seems as though its tongue is embedded so far into its cheek that it will take a surgeon to remove it. Utilizing all the same film techniques that our fine feathered director (Jared Hess) used in his first film (Napolean Dynamite), Nacho Libre gets so lost and confused in it's colors and costumes that it loses its way, and doesn't seem to know how to dust itself off. Watching this film, my mouth was agape as my mind was in awe. I was trying to find something to laugh at, but the jokes were so darn obvious and too cute for words. It seems like I was missing the joke when in fact the joke was missing me. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty to smile at in this interesting study of the ridiculous. Jack Black plays his usual goofy self, only this time he gains a little more weight and he wields an obtuse Mexican accent. <
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>There's something about comedy. For me, I like to laugh. And after I do, I like to think about why. Nothing tells you more about a person -- even yourself -- than knowing what you think is funny. And sometimes that is funny in its own right Black's brand of humor is common enough: be ridiculous by extending common poses in extreme directions without losing the reference to the original. And to do it physically, with those same poses. <
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>Hess's brand of humor is something different: to invert exaggeration, and thus exaggerate the straight man role. His "Napoleon Dynamite" is a sort of Hardy Har Har to the whole world. <
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>Black's schtick doesn't have enough gas under normal circumstances to do more than provide color to a real movie, but this finds a sort of sweet spot. I think it is because Hess toys cleverly with what it means to be a movie. <
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>Professional wrestling is one of North America's more overtly ridiculous performance arts and the main fold here is goofing on that strutting presentation. This also folds into religious ritual which is about as popular in the US, though without the macho overtones from Latin societies. <
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>Where it falls out of that sweet spot is when our wrestler actually has to fight in the last two matches. That's when things tilt; the humor becomes subservient to the story instead of the other way around. <
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>Story is always what kills these things. If this were a TV skit that repeated for 10 minutes every Saturday night, we wouldn't expect a story. But for 30 bucks or so, we do. So we are obliged, but it surely gets in the way, except to remind us that what we see is as manufactured in presentation as those silly wrestlers.

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Sometimes a Man Has to Wear Stretchy Pants
This movie had some hilarious scenes. It didn't have that snappy, witty dialogue I've come to expect from Jack Black. I for one enjoyed the more subtle humor in this script. Of course, in a roomful of people I was the only one laughing at the "sometimes a man has to wear stretchy pants" line. The man-finding-his-place story line worked really well. The orphanage setting added a dimension I didn't expect. I only expected a humorous story, but I ended up laughing and rooting for the characters.