Not Funny

Rating: 4/10 (28 June 2006)

The major problem with "Nacho Libre" is that it isn't funny. It tries very hard but the jokes are excruciatingly slowly set up and painfully executed. Given the elaborate set ups the payoff is small change. I grinned a few times during the movie but looked at my watch twice as often. It was not very good. Jack Black and Ana de la Reguera were good in the movie and the script had lots of raw material to work with but the execution was really bad. Just having a funny looking character does not make the character funny. Too often a character is introduced and they do nothing but stand there, trying to look funny. Don't waste your time seeing this mess. It just isn't funny.