A Man of Science

Rating: 5/10 (18 June 2006)

Greetings again from the darkness. The husband and wife Hess team's follow-up to the smash cult hit "Napoleon Dynamite" is a free fall to mediocrity. Lacking the multitude of funny/interesting characters, "Nacho Libre" is little more than a comic vehicle for the very talented Jack Black to spout his poorly written lines with a fake Spanish accent and run around shirtless in the world's worst wrestling costume (with stretchy pants).
Since it is written purely as a comedy, no mention should be made of the political incorrectness ... astral, that is what comedy is based on. The sad thing is, the Hess team and the usually great Mike White have tried to pass off the script as first rate comedy, when actually it is for the most part, just plain boring.
Relative newcomer Ana de la Reguera is beautiful and pulls off the angelic nun role with ease, but Peter Stormare is woefully miscast as some sort of mystical guru. No other characters are even worth mentioning. Weak writing and casting make for a way-too-few-laughs comedy.