it is more than meets the eye

Rating: 8/10 (29 June 2006)

I laughed a lot with this movie, but I also liked how scenes are constructed: the way people dress, the people and places, the meaning of the ugliness of certain faces... It reminds me of a childhood where our heroes were closer to us than Superman or Spiderman, when we use to collect our plastic "luchadores" and play with them, when even our youngest uncle tried to be wrestler for a couple of months in the local arena and our grandma made him his costume... It reminds me of a certain "underground" culture within the Mexican culture which was not so forgotten about 30 or 40 years ago, when Santo and Blue Demon were true idols and even became movie stars... If you have seen the clothes and topics of such movies, you could realize that certainly the writers/directors of Nacho Libre watched some of those for inspiration.