Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
4 |
It takes some doing to make a Jack Black comedy that doesn't work. But Nacho Libre does it. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
6 |
...easy to take and easy to forget, even with Black running around Oaxaca in turquoise wrestling tights. |
E!
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7 |
It just sits there, making you wish Pedro or Uncle Rico would blast into the scene and make something happen. Tragically, they don't. |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
6 |
Did Nacho make me laugh while I was in the theater? Certainly. And for a comedy, what more can we expect? |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
7 |
...like Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre is going to wear out a lot of DVD players. |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh |
4 |
...a one-gag film that rises or falls on how funny you find the sight of fat, grease-slicked Jack Black crammed into spandex pants. |
Reel
Pam Grady |
3 |
This shrill, obnoxious wrestling comedy stumbles to the mat in its first minutes and stays there. The blow is mortal. As movies go, this one is brain dead. |
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez |
6 |
...a definite upgrade for Hess... |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
5 |
This Nacho leaves your palate longing for more spice and less rancid cheese. |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
4 |
It's a comedy made by people who seem to think they're doing more than they're doing, which is making a mildly offbeat Adam Sandler comedy with an innocuous racist tinge of Mexicans-are-good-for-a-cheap-laugh sarcasm. |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
7 |
...endearingly ridiculous... |
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano |
7 |
...a sweet, dumb-funny follow-up to Napoleon Dynamite... |
People
Leah Rozen |
4 |
...falls thuddingly flat. |
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas |
4 |
...too often, Nacho Libre expects us to be tickled by the mere sight of Black shirtless, or going to the toilet, and well before the end, the movie's one-joke premise -- that sometimes a loser can be more endearing to audiences than a winner -- has been stretched as thin as a tortilla chip. |
Village Voice
Robert Wilonsky |
5 |
See it today and forget it tomorrow--that's the mantra of Nacho Libre, which has some memorable lines that want to be catchphrases, if only they didn't slip from your grasp. |
Onion AV Club
Nathan Rabin |
5 |
Like Dynamite, Libre moves at a sleepy snail's pace, crawling from one botched setpiece to another with all the energy of a funeral dirge. |
Maxim
Pete Hammond |
3 |
The film's weak script, pinned from the opening bell, offers nothing to laugh at beyond Black's funny faces and self-deprecating fat jokes. |
Premiere
Aaron Hillis |
5 |
...Nacho's processed cheese and tortilla-thin premise are purely a refried conduit for Black... |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
5 |
...a throwaway movie... |
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