NACHO LIBRE (2006) **1/2 Maybe Jack Black doesn't demand the immediate respect or adoration of, say, Charlie Chaplin, but there is a style to it and some might say it's unique. I am among the some who thinks it's funny, and really ultimately I think you probably might have to admit that its heart is in the right place. Ridiculous? Sure. A waste of time? Maybe, depends on what else you were going to do. But funny and kind of well meaning, yeah, too. Every film like this has to have a totem of cool, and it can't be Jack so here it's Darius Rose. And he's so cool, in that offbeat way that kind of makes the film. And a love totem, so pure that the tempestuous must be imagined to be understood? Why, it's Ana de la Reguera, wearing a bit much lipstick and make-up for a nun, but I'd be surprised if the Almighty himself isn't impressed. There's nuthin wrong with that nun, I'm tellin' ya. So it goes on like that, tempting you into thinking vague things, but enough so that surely you're forgiven if need be, and you just know the heart of gold finale is comin' up soon. The teleology of television wrestling monks, that's what it is.
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