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Review
Nacho Libre After Dynamite, Hess Gives Us A Fucking Bomb by: Reggie Eggert, for Entertainment
Jared Hess has no such respect for comedy. The entire point of Nacho Libre is to watch Jack Black act fat and stupid...with a Mexican accent...and a perm. "What can be better than that?!?”--Jared Hess, Spring 2005. Well, Jared, lots of things could be better than that. How 'bout Robin Williams in blackface, doing his jive-talkin' baritone-voiced black man routine for 90 minutes? Can't you picture it? Robin plays an orphaned white kid who's been raised by a black family in the 'hood, and he goes out into the world and has to deal with the daily struggles of a black man. Brilliant! Too bad Steve Martin already did it in The Jerk. Okay, here's an idea: Just make a Jackie Chan Movie. He can butcher some English and do some of them Chop Sooey Arts and you'll have a hit. It can't miss. Everyone loves that Chop Sooey and everyone likes laughing at the outtakes of Jackie's movies, as he never fails to send us doubling over at his futile attempts to say even the simplest things in English. That shit is knee-slappin' comedy. If you think I'm being too tough on this film, you obviously haven't seen it. I know some of you may love Jack Black and think he's the best think since Ben Stiller was the best thing or since Jim Carrey was the best thing before that or since Will Ferrell was the best between those two...wait...where does Steve Carrell fit into all this? Oh, whatever. My point is this movie isn't good. That tall ass string bean kid who plays Black's sidekick will never be heard from again, just like that kid who played Pedro hasn't been heard from again. I hope Hess cuts these exploited Mexican actors he uses in on all the merchandise that bears their images. If not, he's a fucking dirty Mormon.
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In
case you haven't heard by now, Nacho Libre isn't
all that funny. There are many reasons why, but none more striking
than director Jared Hess' incredibly transparent obsession with
mocking Hispanic culture, with a particular fondness for
the accents. Now, I think we can all agree that Napoleon
Dynamite's Pedro was funny. He was a charming little dim-witted
Mexican and he had his moments, scoring points off his lazy,
monotone speech. However, just because Pedro secured
you a few laughs, you don't run off and stake all the potential
laughs in a 90 minute summer comedy on Mexicans. You just
don't do that. Paul Rodriguez even knows that Mexican jokes
aren't the be all and end all of comedy, despite the fact
it's made him a very rich man. He still has enough respect for
the art of comedy to not base his entire act on being Mexican. 