 Nacho Libre appears to have been made exclusively for Jack Black fans. Clearly many critics are not among them. One who is is Carina Chocano of the Los Angeles Times, who writes: "Black is a gifted physical comedian with surprisingly expressive eyes and an even more surprising tender streak." But Chocano is in the minority. The headline of Liam Lacey's review in the Toronto Globe & Mail effectively sums up most of the others: "Muy estupido -- and just not that funny." Fellow Torontonian Geoff Pevere of The Star was equally unimpressed, writing: "While I certainly wasn't expecting much from Nacho Libre ... I certainly wasn't expecting the sensation of embalming fluid coursing through my veins that set in within 10 minutes. Make no mistake: you can feel your heart rate declining." Kyle Smith in the New York Post predicts that "half of the audience (at least) is going to sit in bewildered silence. The rest will laugh roughly every 8.4 seconds." An Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune concludes that the movie's just not something to get worked up over. "The film is easy to take and easy to forget," he writes. |
