Nacho Libre
Jared Hess
2006
In the parlance of our times, “haters gonna hate.”
Man, a lot of people REAAALLLLLY don’t like this movie. Personally, I can kind of see both sides– I think by now we can all agree that Jared Hess has no idea how to direct a movie. The composition is bad, the timing is worse, and scenes just sort of start from nowhere and go to nowhere. He’s just not very good.
Still, I did laugh more than once. More than twice, even. I could have done without all the fart jokes, but that’s because I’m a snob.
But more than that, I find myself giggling a lot when I repeat some of the lines and scenes from the movie. “I believe in science.” That whole “stealth baptism” thing was brilliant.
It’s a little bit like Zoolander. I haaaated that movie, but, for some reason, when I find people dropping lines from it, those lines are funny. I didn’t laugh once during Zoolander. I’d rather eat capybara than watch it again. But I still laugh when people recite lines from it. Why?
It’s not quite the same here– I would totally watch Nacho Libre again. I love Jack Black, even when he’s handcuffed by a terrible director, and who can’t get behind a movie about luchadores? But I also find myself thinking it’s funnier when I look back on it that I did when I was watching it. How does that happen?
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