This looked horrible from the trailer,

Rating: 1/10 (25 September 2006)

...and boy, it didn't disappoint. Now I enjoy Jack Black and his work in the past has been very decent. This movie, however, takes pretentious to a whole new level.
The director apparently somehow found himself with a hit on his hands with the terribly unfunny Napoleon Dynamite, and then got to make this.
The jokes are probably funny through a haze of marijuana smoke, but once you are no longer stoned, you realize that they're really not funny at all and you get angry for wasting 2+ hours of your life. The casting is done in such a way as if to make sure that every single character is completely devoid of ANY acting capability. This includes Jack's partner, with whom he has to interact most of the time. Then there's the main love interest. The director chose to have her look angelic and innocent for the entire movie, honestly folks, she does absolutely nothing but sit there in the middle of the frame for the entire movie.
Then there's the cinematography. About 75% of the movie is comprised of 3/4s shots with camera under lock down. Dollies and booms simply do not exist in Mexico.
Welp, this goes to show you, any idiot with an accidental 'hit' can make it in Hollywood. So to all you folks out there trying to actually make student films in order to get noticed, just remember, if absolutely atrociously unfunny junk like this can make it to theaters with a marketing push behind it, anything can.
-T