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(1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 45% Rotten Page   1   "Nacho Libre is all it needs to be--ridiculous from beginning to end."   Blogcritics.org   Alan Dale "Jack Black's physical humor, poses and grimaces are showcased to the max in 'Nacho Libre,' and almost everything pays off."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker D- "Nacho Libre serves as further evidence to the theory that people will laugh at anything as long as they expect to."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 3/5 "(W)hile it doesn't have Napoleon Dynamite's wealth of quotable dialogue, (Nacho Libre,) does contain enough clever moments to warrant a real recommendation."   DVD Verdict   Bill Gibron B+ "Nacho Libre is such a remarkable improvement over Napoleon Dynamite, someone might want to check the temp in hell and see if it's still toasty down there."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "Straddling one those tiresome lines between caricature and inventiveness, Esqueleto is easily the movie's most engaging presence."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "The sight of portly Canadian singer-actor Jack Black in Mexican luchador or wrestling tights is almost funny enough to base an entire feature, but not quite."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 1/5 "Nacho Libre is the kind of awful movie that ruins your whole day."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 2.5/4 "Extremely silly... and surprisingly sweet."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth "Jack Black capers, cavorts and makes funny faces in an attempt to wring comedy out of wood, and it's just plain embarrassing to watch."   Portland Tribune   Dawn Taylor 3/4 "Tightly paced, fast as a whip and addictively entertaining."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2.5/4 "Napoleon Dynamite's racism was unmistakable, Nacho Libre's less so, subverted as it is by Jack Black's comic humanism."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B- "The film is so good-natured and pleasant and simple that I can't not recommend it. It's a disappointment in a lot of ways, but it's sure an upbeat one."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C- "Oh, this is such a gargantuan put-on."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "Sadly the inspired ridiculousness demonstrated in Hess’s sagging geek-induced laugher couldn’t muster the comic crunchiness of a dripping tortilla."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C- "It certainly succeeds in being different, but peculiar doesn't necessarily mean enjoyable."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "Fans of Napoleon Dynamite will love this endearing comedy with its visual flair and delicious fairy-tale magic."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "After a promising beginning, Nacho Libre goes off the rails with its over-the-top satire and intentional campiness failing to generate many laughs."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 6/10 "Eventually, the build-up of ridiculousness just got to me."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 8/10 "Not for everyone, but definitely for me. I had a good time."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 4/10 "Libre is offensive, even if you take away the religious angle. It will insult your intelligence, as well as your sense of humor."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 5/5 "Nacho typical comedy"   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 2.5/4.0 "Don't mess with a Missionary man. In tights."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2/5 "I really did want to like this film, but I found it pedantic and dull. I actually dozed off in the middle, and I haven't done that since Elizabethtown."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C+ " The movie manages to float...on the capable shoulders of the dementedly talented Black and a well chosen supporting cast. "   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1.5/4 "It's 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 and capering like an epileptic lamb."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "'So NACHO LIBRE is not about free Doritos but any way it is from that Jared guy that made that totally bogus movie about me and its pretty SA-WEET any way!' [says Napoleon Dynamite]"   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/5 "I didn't laugh a single time, nor did I chuckle, chortle, or giggle."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 2/4 "I kept waiting for it to get really funny and it never did."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C- "Black does everything humanly possibly to try to make this movie work, even spending a good deal of time wearing silly blue tights and getting beat up many, many, many, many times but the script pile-drives him into the mat."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow C+ "More amusing in theory than in practice."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 2.5/5 "The makers of Napoleon Dynamite are back with another comedy that hinges on deriding ordinary people."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B- "Whatever its faults, you won't walk out of it thinking it's just like every other movie this summer."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 2/5 "Film Jack Black doing anything for 80 minutes and you're bound to wring a few yuks from the footage, but the chuckles delivered here are distressingly few and far between."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg C+ "Hess colors the film with his askew sensibility that twists the slapstick into an oddball realm of droll humor that favors the eccentric over the hilarious."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 3/5 "If Black had shed 15 pounds prior to shooting, his shrunken waistline would taken half of the film's jokes with it."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 5/10 "Sweetly absurd, it's silly, slapstick fun."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 0.5/4 "Pictures like this exist because people are used to lowering their expectations so much that they're actually irked when someone doesn't."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 45% Rotten Page   1