Funny Jack Black movie, especially for the younger set.

Rating: Null/10 (5 November 2006)

I watched this movie with a couple of teenagers and they laughed often and loud. I did too. But my wife found it less funny. You have to be in a silly mood. Jack Black is Nacho, a Friar who works as a cook at an orphanage in Mexico. There never seems to be money for real food, so he always serves a sick looking brown paste with a few broken tortilla chips on the top.
One day he gets the idea that if he could wrestle for money, he could buy real food. He forms a partnership with skinny Esqueleto (Héctor Jiménez, with the rubber face smile) to compete in tag team wrestling. They lose their first match, but get money anyway. The next day, salads for everyone at the orphanage! The story gets complicated when pretty young nun Sister Encarnación (Ana de la Reguera) comes to the orphanage. Nacho seems to fall in love with her. But everything is kept on the straight and narrow.
There is a funny scene where a gypsy king sends Nacho up a cliff to eat the yolk of an Eagle's egg, so that he can get the strength of an Eagle to help him wrestle. The big showdown comes when Nacho must wrestle his former idol, Ramses (played by a real Mexican wrestler).
All in all not a very meaningful movie, but entertaining if you are in the right mood.