During his service in the field, Hess became fluent in Spanish, which gave the filmmaker confidence to shoot "Nacho Libre" with an entirely Mexican crew on location in and around Oaxaca.

The tubby luchador of "Nacho Libre" could be the long-lost cousin south of the border that Napoleon Dynamite never knew he had. As a monastery cook who raises money for the orphans he feeds by ...

In Nacho Libre, Jack Black plays Nacho, a young man raised in a Mexican monastery in Oaxaca, who moves on from his job as a cook to try and save the monastery from financial disaster.

Nacho Libre is not unexpected and doesn’t seem fresh, the illusion of charm is missing, and the alternate universe seems more phony than alternate.

Jim Nissen, 43, took his colorful costume -- based on Jack Black’s character in the wrestling comedy “Nacho Libre”-- and bike from his nightly ride along the strand to the streets for his ...

Nacho Libre earns some style points for its patently insane cutscenes and use of video clips from the movie. Just don't expect to have any fun actually playing it.

Nacho Libre is an engagingly oddball film (directed by Jared Hess, who made cult comedy Napoleon Dynamite) that manages to blend comic madness with more serious notes.

In addition he has aflatulence problem. He also leads asecret life as a talentless, overweight luchador named Nacho Libre, whosered-and-blue makeshift costume makes him resemble the anti-Superman.

As Nacho, he gets to be a Luchador, which is best described as one of those over-the-top wrestlers in cartoon costumes with a flair for choreographed movements.

The tubby luchador of "Nacho Libre" could be the long-lost cousin south of the border that Napoleon Dynamite never knew he had.

In so doing, Mr. Black's character, named Nacho, struts around in skin-tight leggings, gets into fights with the monks and propositions a beautiful nun.