Just Right for a Light Hearted Summer Comedy

Rating: 10/10 (18 June 2006)

Jack Black as Nacho is great of course, and I liked his sidekick Esqueleto (Hector Jimenez) and the pretty Sister Encarnación (Ana de la Reguera) as well. I'm not surprised to see some critics (Roger Ebert for example) are not giving the movie the best reviews. It's not unusual that a movie the critics love turns out to be one I don't care for or vice versa.
Little things in the movie are funny...
The outfit Nacho wears on his night out - the white pants, white shoes and the baby blue sweater with the dickey-like turtleneck, is hilarious and perfect. The shelter that Nacho made of sticks when he went into the "wilderness" and the fact that he's basically in someone's backyard make that scene funny. His attempt to save Sister Encarnación from the bad guys in a pre-arranged plot he and Esqueleto cooked up to impress her is good for some laughs when he mistakenly confronts a couple of innocent people passing by.
It's a fun summer movie that has some good guy bad guy action, a little bit of a commentary on religion or at least piety, a couple of catchy songs and a leading man who reminds me of a mix of Errol Flynn, Ricardo Montalban, a not quite so manic Jerry Lewis and John Belushi.