Nacho Libre stinks!

So say the reviewers.

Roger Ebert:  It takes some doing to make a Jack Black comedy that doesn't work. But "Nacho Libre" does it.

Slate: Black has the potential to be the rare comedian capable of making lemons into lemonade, but the fruit he's squeezing here is bone-dry.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: The teaming of the wildly likable Black with the Hesses and co-screenwriter Mike White ("The School of Rock") led me to believe this would be a sure-fire laugh riot and a high point of June movie-hopping. Instead, it's just another summer dud.

 

Thanks, Jay Sherman.

 

My wife actually wants to see this. So I imagine I'll see it wth her.

Critics rarely like 'family' films and I tend to like movies they don't just because I go to movies for a couple of hours escaping rather than looking for a masterpiece.

 

Bone-dry fruit?

 

Napoleon Dynamite set in Mexico anyone?

 

How is this thread title a surprise? At all?

 

I saw a long trailer for it a couple months ago. I think it was five minutes long and it was horrible. I've liked Jack Black in most of his movies, but this one holds zero interest for me. Actually, less than zero because he owes me five minutes of life for watching that trailer.

 

The threat of a good comic actor affecting a bad accent, or voice, for an entire movie usually is a red flag for me.

 

Yeah, like in the Pink Panther movies.

 

Ditto.
The title a Mr. Obvious comment if I've ever seen one.

 

Good call.

Witness Dan Aykroyd in Caddyshack 2.