 | 映画原題: Nacho Libre [ 映画邦題: ナッチョ・リブレ] : 話題注目作劇場公開映画 |  | |  |  | |  | Nacho Libre : Hollywood Cinema Director : シネマ作品監督紹介 | | Nacho Libre : Actor [CAST・CREW] : アクター・アクトレス(男優・女優・声優)&ミュージシャン・アーティスト紹介 | | Nacho Libre : 現地ハリウッド市民の評価 : 英語批評版 : Native Evaluation |  |  |  |  |  if you like weirdly sweet Mexican wrestling comedies this is the film for you / 2006-06-23
It's good to know that farce is alive and well in the world. Since the mid 90's it feels like film makers have lost their grip on truly great weird comedy. Movies that speak to the few and turn off the rest. It seems that even as the tools to unlock our imaginations get flashier and flashier, and special effect budgets grow and grown, American film grow static and stale. Then when it seems like all hope is lost, a film like NACHO LIBRE comes along.
Somewhere in Mexico, a young priest named Nacho (Jack Black) longs to be recognized. He's tired of serving the same bland food to the young boys in his charge. He's tired of being disrespected by the other priests. He longs to be a luchadore (a Mexican wrestler), and to gain the affections of the stunning Sister Encarnaciﾃδｳn (Ana del la Regura). Then when all hope is lost he teams up with a new friend named Esquelta, and takes the Mexican wrestling world by storm. Will the orphan boys get better food? Will Nacho win the heart of Sister Encarnaciﾃδｳn? Will he lose everything he has, on a quest to become a great warrior? Giving this movie its due will provide those answers and more. The movie not perfect. It's a little overlong and some of the jokes fall flat on their face. But there is an earnestness and a sweet gentility in the film that will win you over. You cannot enter this movie with the wrong attitude and if you don't like weird movie its not for you. But if you let it entertain you and if you give into the fact that it really bizarre, it will work. You have to take every scene with grain of salt and logic must be thrown out the window. But if you turn off that part of your brain that strives for everything to be plausible, than this film will entertain.
Then for no apparent reason the movie does something I didn't quite expect, it begins to tackle a serious subject. Behind all the silliness is a story about how legalism traps us in a place of boredom and predictability. Whether it be religious legalism or secular legalism, NACHO LIBRE is about a misfit who succeeds because he goes out on a limb. He doesn't give up his religious fervor when the chips are down, when his atheist friend tells him to give into science and logic, and he doesn't give up on God because men of cloth treat him badly. He stays true to his faith and not his religion. This message is not beaten over the audiences head. This is not a religious picture. But it gives the film a dimension that I didn't expect.
Director Jared Hess, doesn't stray to far from his Napoleon Dynamite roots. But that's okay. It works here and he hits the right comic tones. I can't wait for the DVD because I'm convinced that the film really needs to be viewed a second time. Knowing what to expect allows the audience to settle into Hess skewed comedy. The film is very dry and if you don't know what to expect its easy to dismiss the comedy and think the film is horrible. You have to work at it a little bit and let it sink in. But when you get it you'll love it.
If you're looking for an hour and half of silliness you can't go wrong with NACHO LIBRE. It's cute, sweet, and you get to stare at Jack Black's upper torso for far too long. Trust me if you like weirdly sweet Mexican wrestling comedies this is the film for you. |  |  |  |  | | | | | | | |  Supremely Silly and Not Very Funny / 2006-06-22
One thing becomes abundantly clear after watching "Nacho Libre", the new film starring Jack Black. Black seems to have no inhibitions about what he will do for a laugh. He seems willing to do anything and everything for a laugh. This works for and against him, often at the same time.
"Nacho Libre" is a supremely silly movie, and it is also a disappointment. Directed by Jared Hess and co-written by Hess, his wife, Jerusha (the team behind the great "Napoleon Dynamite") and Mike White (one of the people behind "School of Rock), I was expecting a lot more.
Ignacio (Black), or Nacho as he is known, is a cook at a very poor Mexican monastery. Every day, he wakes up early, makes a disgusting soup topped with donated stale tortilla chips and serves it to the many orphaned children and the bitter priests, all of whom complain about Nacho's skills as a cook. Nacho isn't very good at anything he tries. He asks the priests to let him have more responsibilities, so they let him visit a sick man and Nacho instantly begins giving the man Last Rites, waking him up in the process. One evening, he spots Ramses, the most famous Lucheador (wrestler) in all of Oaxaca, exiting the ring, wearing nice clothes, walking to his expensive car. Nacho decides he can do that and enlists the aid of a local vagrant, Esqueleto (Hector Jiminez) to be his wrestling partner. Soon, they begin training. The first match does not go well, but Nacho and Esqueleto are surprised to learn they get paid anyway. Nacho is also very interested in a new nun who has transferred to their monastery, Sister Encarnacion (Ana de la Reguera, a dead look-a-like for Penelope Cruz), and decides he wants to become a wrestler for the money, to help the children and win the heart of the new nun.
As I watched "Libre", I was instantly struck by the attention to detail in the film which appears to have been shot on location in Oaxaca, Mexico. If it wasn't, they did a remarkable job of making everything look very authentic. Everything has a slightly dusty, aged appearance. Posters hang on the walls and appear tattered. The monastery has clearly seen better days, a couple of hundred years ago. These people are poor and it shows. Even the scenes at Ramses house, during a big party, show that even though he may be well off, he isn't really rich. He is simply well-off. It all looks real.
Jack Black is fearless as far as the lengths he will go to get a laugh. He struts around in tight sweatpants and no shirt through a significant portion of the film; not a pretty sight, but initially very funny. This is the key to "Libre", many things are `initially' funny, but the third, tenth or twentieth time we see them, they begin to lose their freshness and it becomes a tiresome joke. As soon as he able to raise enough money wrestling, he uses some of the prize money to buy vegetables for the monastery and make salads for everyone. He theatrically crushes a large handful of chips and blows into them, trying to woo Sister Encarnacion, by blowing the chips across her salad. It is a funny scene, over the top and amusing, but it is not the first time he has done something like this and it feels less fresh every time. Immediately after this, he opens a bottle of dressing and pours it on her salad in a way he means to be seductive.
The only original offbeat moment happens when Nacho invites the Sister to his room... for toast. In the next shot, we see them sitting across from one another, eating big pieces of dry toast. This scene is the one moment which delivers on the premise of the director's first film. It is an oddball moment. I just wish there had been more.
Throughout the film, Black shows wild abandon and proves willing to do anything for a laugh. When he starts training to be a wrestler, he borrows sweat pants from a chubby boy at the orphanage and then he and Esqueleto start running down a dirty road, wearing the tight sweats and little else. On Jack Black, this brings to mind the image of Homer Simpson jiggling the fat around his belly and watching as it takes on a life of its own. His stomach heaves and moves, his legs flex and virtually every part of his body moves in a different direction, as we watch all of the parts move. Considering what he is wearing, we can see just about everything, causing a symphony of laughter. But these types of jokes are repeated; later, he tries to attract Sister Encarnacion by wearing tight slacks and a shirt. Later still, he is wearing his wrestling outfit and everyone walks in. He tries to stand up tall, and appear heroic, but his belly sticks out like a sack of potatoes.
Throughout, Black comes up with some interesting facial expressions and weaves together an interesting accent, but even this seems a little tired after a while. Every time Black spoke, I kept thinking of an old Saturday Night Live skit when Jimmy Smits was the guest host. Smits walks into a board meeting as various board members try to decide what to order for lunch. Every time someone says "Enchilada" or "Taco" they exaggerate the pronunciation and Smits had to explain no one says "Encheeladddaaaa". It was a funny skit, but it only lasted five minutes. Black does a pretty good job of trying to make his accent believable, while also making it funny, but over the course of 100 minutes, it wears thin.
As the film moves towards the inevitable wrestling scenes, the film also switches gears and these become the main thrust of the narrative. They just aren't funny. Nacho and his co-hort don't appear to be good wrestlers, so their opponents have to be funny or interesting to make it worth while to watch Black get smacked around the ring. They aren't. We never really learn who any of them are, beyond their looks. Also, it isn't really clear why Nacho would be allowed to wrestle Ramses, the big star. Nacho never seems to win a match, so how does he get the chance?
None of the other characters are interesting or add anything to the film, contributing nothing to the narrative. Yet another letdown from the creator of "Napoleon Dynamite". In his first film, Hess created a rich cast of characters, all of whom were interesting, funny and unusual. Not a single character in the new film can compete with Jack Black.
At one point, an overweight woman begins making eyes at Esquelito. This seems to be designed to be an ongoing joke, but after chasing him through the house for a few minutes, the character disappears.
When the jokes about flatulence begin, you realize the director has run out of ideas. "Dynamite" is a great comedy with a lot of offbeat humor and a great, subtle sensibility. "Nacho Libre" has some subtle touches, but they are instantly devoured by Black as he runs from one point to the other, attempting to do anything to make the audience laugh.
Worse yet, the film attempts, at times, to introduce dramatic elements; these seem to be from a completely different film. Nacho forms a friendship with the orphans, the new nun thinks wrestling is a bad thing. Because these elements aren't played for laughs, they act like red lights. As soon as any comedy momentum begins to build, these moments appear forcing us to completely reconsider what is happening. Green light. Red light. Yellow light. Red light. Crash.
"Nacho Libre" has a number of laughs in it, but all of the other elements are at odds with the comedy, detracting from it and making it an experience worthy of a DVD viewing, if that.
| | | | | | | | | | | | Jack Black Provides Some Very Silly But Very Funny Physical Comedy / 2006-06-22
MOVIE: When I heard that Jack Black would be playing a Mexican Friar who moonlighted as a wrestler in Jared Hess' next project I got very happy, because I knew this would be a funny movie. The trailers for the film advertised exactly what this movie was, and that was pure physical comedy. The story is about Nacho, a Friar who wants the fame and fortune that is associated with being a luchadore after living the same old life over and over each day. He then realizes that this journey to become a professional wrestler is not for himself but for the orphans who he looks after and cooks for at the orphanage. The movie is basically Jack Black running around with his shirt off for an hour and a half while sporting a fake mustache and a funny Mexican accent. While the majority of the comedy in the film is physical, there are some hilarious lines in the film that are delivered with the right spunk by Black. There are also some great physical scenes in and outside the ring that shows just how great of a physical comedian Black is. The movie is incredibly stupid, but it's also so very funny. If you enjoy pure silly comedy executed perfectly then this movie is just the thing you need. Don't expect another Napoleon Dynamite because this is not a reincarnation of Hess' previous cult hit. He uses the same style of shooting the movie though by using a lot of wide symmetrically balanced shots. Personally, I laughed harder at this then I did with Napoleon Dynamite. Napoleon Dynamite had some great one-liners, but Nacho Libre overall is just plain silly fun. Don't take the film seriously at all, just sit back and laugh.
ACTING: This is clearly a one man show, and it's been advertised like that. Jack Black is in every scene of the movie, and he's funny pretty much in every scene. His facial expressions and ability to jump around remind me a lot of Chris Farley. He is incredibly hilarious as Nacho and he gets some great support from Hector Jimenez who plays his sidekick, Esqueleto (directly translates to Skeleton). In fact there are few names in the film that directly translate to funny names in English. I recall one boy's name as Chancho, which means filthy. So, you can basically get the tone of the movie just by the characters' names.
BOTTOM LINE: Lots of fun and lots of physical comedy that takes the right tone so that it is in fact funny in a stupid way. Usually movies like this fall flat and just end up stupid, but the ingrediants were right on this one and I found Nacho Libre pleasently entertaining. I also found the funniest line of the movie to be "get that corn outta my face!" | | | | | | | | | | | |  a glorious nacho libre! / 2006-06-20
Sure, I'm a casual fan of Napoleon Dynamite. When I first saw the commercials for that movie a couple years ago, my friends and I were immediately hooked, and the movie delivered an offbeat, sweet comedy with some killer lines. So when I heard the writer and director of 'Napoleon' was teaming up with Jack Black (with a little help from the writer of School of Rock) to make a wrestling movie, I was excited -- especially when I saw the trailer!
I was a bit worried coming in to the movie because of some bad reviews. However, Nacho Libre completely delivers for those who are hoping for the movie that trailer says it is. It's a zany, unique softball comedy that had my friends and I rolling in the isles, and the rest of the audience, too. I read a review that said this movie was stretched too thin over a half-baked premise. I say this movie doesn't try to be anything it's not! Not only do you have that Napoleon magic, but this time around, the director throws in a good dose of silly physical comedy in the wrestling ring that had me cracking up. Wait until you see Nacho Libre and his sidekick battle two midget-sized wrestlers with a dose of feral genes and a hair problem!
I'm a twenty year old guy, and so are my two friends that I saw it with, and we loved it. But so did everyone else in the theater. If you like oddball comedies, like Napoleon was, and slapstick, give this 'Nacho' a try. | | | | | | | | | | | |  Nacho Libre - Nacho average movie. / 2006-06-20
The comedy starring Jack Black and Hector Jimenez,"Nacho Libre" was very disappointing. The thin script and inane situations made it unenjoyable. The movie seemed to be more of a skit rather than a screenplay and seemed to keep many ends untied.
The manner in which he depicts Mexicans with the bad teeth and the tacky squalor is also something that many would find offensive.
The setting is a remote Mexican monastery where Ignacio (Jack Black) lives as a friar obsessed with luchador, a form of wrestling. Deeply loyal to the orphans who are forced to eat his terrible black-bean stew and stale nacho chips, Ignacio decides to don colourful tights and a mask in order to win money to put fresh food on the table. With the collaboration of scrawny street urchin Esqueleto (Hector Jimenez) he jiggles his way in the ring wrestling all sorts of odd opponents, but the big fight is that against the best of the best: Ramses. Of course, Nacho Libre, as he likes to be called, has to keep these activities hidden from the other friars, and especially from Sister Encarnacion (Ana de la Reguera) with whom he's infatuated.
Most of the laughs derive from Black's strutting of his large, semi-clad and very fleshy frame all over the big screen. Granted you would be laughing through the whole picture, but you will quickly forget about it ten minutes after leaving the theatre, and wonder why you even wasted your time.
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『Napoleon Dynamite』 の制作者と 『The School of Rock』の脚本家が参加した爆笑コメディ。メキシコの修道院で育ったナチョ（ジャック・ブラック）は、たいした取り柄もないまま大人になり、修道院でコックとして働くようになる。修道院に住む孤児たちのことを心底大事に思っているものの、その料理はお世辞にもおいしいとは言えない。材料が悪いと考えたナチョは、金を稼ぐためにレスリング "Lucia Libre" のレスラーになろうと決意。意外なことに自分にレスラーとしての才能があることを発見し、ガリガリのパートナー・エスケレート（Skelton、骸骨という意味）とタッグを組んでレスラー道に燃えるナチョだが、修道院ではレスリングは厳しく禁じられているため、二重生活を余儀なくされる。
