I saw Nacho Libre last week and all I can say is that it didn’t suck as much as I thought it would. It probably helps that I was using a free pass from a box of Cheerios, but I still think critics were being pretty harsh on the film. It all comes down to expectations and even mediocrity from Jack Black, Mike White and Jared Hess is still infinitely more entertaining than the crap Hollywood greenlights on a weekly basis. Richard Roeper, said “there is no story here whatsoever” but called Napoleon Dynamite one of his top five comedies of this decade. Napoleon had immense cultural impact, but was it because of it’s story? I am not saying Nacho is even in the same league as Napoleon, but when you think about Nacho Libre as a fun and juvenile children’s film, I think it works fine. Especially if you are in the right mood. Stephen Cooke described it effectively as “a live-action version of a Speedy Gonzales animated short.”
It was really the music that won me over…and the story behind the sound track (First Beck, than Danny Elfman, than threats) is a lot more interesting than the script. There is also a movement to have the soundtrack released by Paramount mainly because of Beck’s unearthing of 1975’s “Religious Man (I am, I am)” by Mister Loco. There is a possible track listing here and here. I know I would at least pay $0.99 *cough* to get that track in my collection.
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I saw Nacho Libre last week and all I can say is that it didn’t suck as much as I thought it would. It probably helps that I was using a free pass from a box of Cheerios, but I still think critics were being pretty harsh on the film. It all comes down to expectations and even mediocrity from Jack Black, Mike White and Jared Hess is still infinitely more entertaining than the crap Hollywood greenlights on a weekly basis. Richard Roeper, said “there is no story here whatsoever” but called Napoleon Dynamite one of his top five comedies of this decade. Napoleon had immense cultural impact, but was it because of it’s story? I am not saying Nacho is even in the same league as Napoleon, but when you think about Nacho Libre as a fun and juvenile children’s film, I think it works fine. Especially if you are in the right mood. Stephen Cooke described it effectively as “a live-action version of a Speedy Gonzales animated short.”
It was really the music that won me over…and the story behind the sound track (First Beck, than Danny Elfman, than threats) is a lot more interesting than the script. There is also a movement to have the soundtrack released by Paramount mainly because of Beck’s unearthing of 1975’s “Religious Man (I am, I am)” by Mister Loco. There is a possible track listing here and here. I know I would at least pay $0.99 *cough* to get that track in my collection.