Pleasantly Surprised

Rating: 10/10 (13 December 2006)

I had free movie tickets once and my brother and I wanted to see Superman Returns, but it was sold out for most of the showings. So we decided to go see Nacho Libre, which I thought was going to be a terrible Nickelodeon fart-joke movie. I knew that it was by the director of Napoleon Dynamite, a film that I personally detest though will quote time and time again.
Lo and behold, it IS a fart-joke movie, but because my expectations were so low, it actually turned out to be a better movie to me than Superman Returns. I really enjoyed this movie because of its simplicity, and it's relative honesty when it came to marketing the picture. It is what it says it is, without beating around the bush. And it's a kids movie that's actually okay for kids to watch, maybe not so much the violence but as long as they know (as most children do) that it's pretend. There isn't any gratuitous sex or skin to worry about, and I thought that it was a really kind of sweet, albeit childish movie.
I eventually bought the "Stretchy Pants" edition of the DVD.