In a season of smug, telegraphed quirkiness (hello, Little Miss Sunshine), the rambling Nacho Libre, like director Jared Hess' previous Napoleon Dynamite, feels like an original.
New Yorker
June 19, 2006
Nacho Libre, naïvely made kids' stuff, lacks such minor attributes as a decent script and supporting cast.
eFilmCritic.com
August 25, 2008
Hess has the most languid sense of comic timing since Bill Murray at his peak.
The film's sheer lack of everything that customarily passes for comic fuel -- energy, wit, character, fun, a plot -- renders Nacho Libre a torturous patience tester of the first order.
Any production featuring Jack Black in spandex and showing off his belly full of stretch marks should never have made it off the drawing board in the first place.
