Argh!

Rating: 3/10 (2 September 2006)

The plot appears to have the promise of something funny - but outside of the fact that the Monk wants to be a wrestler none of it really develops into a memorable or particularly funny movie. There were so many sub-plots introduced that go nowhere that I have to believe there was some indiscriminate editing going on - like seeing Airport 77 edited by Delta Airlines. I like Jack Black - he strikes me as a comedian with the potential to emerge from a great script with a very popular following - but this was not a great script and the movie is only entertaining at a very superficial level. The ongoing tension with the nun just didn't work. This could have been written to be a girl from the village and it certainly would have worked better. I can not believe the writers never considered that - unless they never actually finished the script and let the filmmaker run out of film.