Ignacio's best friend in Nacho Libre is Steven (Hecto Jimenez) who wrestles under the Luchador name Esqueleto. While the pair got off to a rocky start since they met when Steven robbed Ignacio ...

Following their unprecedented success with Napoleon Dynamite, Jared and Jerusha Hess decided to return to the absurd with Nacho Libre. It was met with less critical success, but was still a ...

How you respond to that will determine how you respond to this, an odd cinematic hiccup called Nacho Libre. Yep, there's Jack Black in tights — and untamed curls and a mustache. Why does he wear ...

Wrestling comedy to the ground. Jack Black is no “Rocky.” Sure, “Nacho Libre” has Black climbing into the ring as an underdog, looking to his true love for inspiration and grappling a ...

The family guys share a fondness for absurdist slapstick that made "Nacho Libre" an apt match. "As a kid, I knew Mexican wrestlers wore cool-looking superhero masks, but I'd never seen a match or ...

In that way, Nacho Libre is both my favorite Jack Black movie, as well as my favorite wrestling movie. I don’t know how they did it, but they did, and it’s wonderful. Rich is a Jersey boy ...

At Monday’s Chinese Theater preem for “Nacho Libre,” Paramount marketing topper Gerry Rich called Jack Black‘s character “our own caped crusader.” And while a movie with Batman and ...

You know, my original reaction to the announcement that Majesco would be publishing a game based on Nacho Libre was one of a dumbfounded "what?" Admittedly, it's a bit of a reach to create a ...

Much like Jared Hess' first film Napoleon Dynamite, the comedy on display in the new movie Nacho Libre is something of an acquired taste: gentle but not inconsequential, idiosyncratic but not ...

Inspired by a local wrestling hero, he decides to moonlight as the not-so-famous Luchador "Nacho Libre" to earn money for the monastery -- not to mention the admiration of beautiful nun Sister ...