Nacho Libre

Rating: Null/10 (11 December 2008)

Movie review Nacho Libre (2006)
Comical, funny, hilarious all in one movie! Nacho Libre was filmed in Oxaca, Mexico, Los Angeles, California USA, and Oaxaca, Mexico in 2006. Nacho Libre is by far one of the best movies I have seen. Starring the king of comedy, Jack Black starts out to be a cook for an orphanage home, but quickly realizes that God is calling himself to be a wrestler. Not just any wrestler but one that dresses in stretchy pants that were given to him from one of the orphanages. As a cook and wrestler he begins this quest on how to be the best wrestler. However, due to the dual match coming up Nacho needs a partner for such endeavors. While on his search he quickly encounters homeless Esqueleto also known as "The Skeleton", who resides on the streets. However, Esqueleto quickly finds himself in the ring with Nacho, as sidekick. The director of this movie is Jared Hess., who also directed, "Napoleon Dynamite". This hilarious movie is set in Mexico amongst monks and an orphanage. This orphanage is where Nacho resigns as a chef, who doesn't know how to cook and falls in love with Sister Encarnación (Ana De la Reguera), who is a nun. Nacho quickly figures out that he is being called from a higher power to wrestle. However, due to the nature of his spirituality it is held on the negative side of the line. However, Nacho believes that you can fight for a good. The cause of him fighting is he wants to buy a bus, to go on field trips with the orphans. So on this quest, Nacho meets a stick figure Esqueleto who wants to help Nacho become a famous wrestler. Lacking skills and knowledge of the sport they inhumanly train themselves with beehives and stick arrows, which really has nothing to do with wrestling. For a search of skills he climbs a mountain and eats eagle eggs in hope to find powers that will help him in the ring. For some reason the egg powers aren't working, even when summoned and they both get roughed up in the first fight. Even though they lost they still get money. Nacho doesn't quite register that but accepts it anyway to pay for food for the orphans. This repeats itself until these two partners in crime decide losing is getting old and they want to win. But this is not before they split up, where Nacho goes to the wilderness and Esqueleto encounters the supposed to be rival for the big match. However, there is a big mishap where the rival gets hurt and Nacho is next in line to wrestle the champion. As Nacho prepares himself for the big match he sings the song he wrote for his love, Encarnación in the wilderness. In the beginning of this match it looks as if Nacho is going to lose however, while pinned down he decides to take a glance at the crowd and notices his forbidden love came out with some of the orphans to watch Nacho. Will Nacho find the strength to beat Ramses, (Cesar Gonzalez) who is the remaining champ or will he fall victim and let the orphans down on the bus? I believe the variety of photography angles played a big role in the movie. Not just setting the scene but giving a little bit of detail about the characters. They used a lot of close up shots as well as far away shots to get the setting in the picture. I liked the shot of the food nacho made because it gave the audience the details of how disgusting it actually was. Overall I was pleased with the photography of the movie. There are a few things I don't like about the movie. Is this movie realistic? No not really. I love movies that are somewhat realistic at least that way you have a slight chance of thinking that it could happen. I think that is the downfall for this movie. It is a great movie and that should never be taken out of context. If I had to give this movie a rating it would be 8 out of 10. However, if it was more realistic I would have enjoyed it a bit more although my sides are still sore from laughing.