Rating: ***

My taste in movies tends to be either arthouse or shithouse. I don't like the in-between stuff. So, yeah, I rate Dumb and Dumber very highly. And Napoleon Dynamite.

While watching Nacho Libre, which opens in New Zealand today, I was thinking it strongly reminded me of the latter - despite a completely different setting and storyline. Now I discover it's from the same director, Jared Hess. However, Nacho doesn't quite live up to its predecessor.

Nacho, the eponymous hero played by Jack Black, is a monk in a Mexican orphanage. His job is to cook, but the orphanage has no money to buy decent ingredients. Nacho does something about it - on the sly he becomes a luchador, a wrestler.

He and his tag team partner are perennial losers in search of "skills" as Napoleon would say. Black is very good, with his musical efforts a highlight. There are a lot of funny moments and the film is certainly worth a look. But it lacks the strangeness that made Napoleon Dynamite so appealing.

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