Exploits Latin Americans

Rating: Null/10 (16 June 2006)

Following Napoleon Dynamite's racist "let's laugh at Pedro" comes Nacho Libre. Let's give Pedro a greasy mustache and broken English, let's get a white guy (Jack Black) put him in tights and call him "Nacho." You may call it "slap stick" I call it a slap in the face to Mexicans. What's next? Jared Hess might as well make a movie that shows Jack Black in black face with a name like "Water Mellon" or "Corn Bread."
I'm sorry. Or better yet, the Hess's should say they're sorry. They got lucky with Nap Dynamite, and lucky with this films marketing campaign as I'm sure it will make money. And sorry to say, it will make money off of bad stereotypes. If no one stands up and points out how this movie is just plain wrong, well, it will be a very telling story of American Culture (not Mexican). And that will be the only story here because "Nacho Libre" falls short on any emotional level. Not much story, not much feeling, not much comedy.