I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard while watching a movie. The first and only time I saw this movie was in the theatre when it came out and at the time I loved it, but I was 16 at the time so I wasn't expecting to like it as much as the first time I saw it. To my delightful surprise, I believe I may have loved it even more this time around. The comedies that have come out these past 10 years have been complete and utter crap. None of them have been funny. None of them have been clever. And none of them made me laugh out loud the entire time like this movie did. A lot of the credit must go to Jack Black. His comedic talent was on complete display here. His physical comedy has never been more prevalent or impressive. He has proved himself with this movie that he certainly could have been amongst the great silent movie actors back in the day. His facial expressions are hysterical and his movements are manic in the best way possible. The director, Jared Hess, did an outstanding job letting us see all of the amazing action on screen with limited cuts, which is such a breath of fresh air nowadays. The tone of the movie reminded me so much of director Jody Hill's movies as well as his show Eastbound and Down, in the way that we are following a character who has a very limited amount of talent but he believes so whole heartedly that he can do the impossible. The music and the cinematography enhances this similarity as well, and it works gangbusters. I believe this very well may be Jack Black's finest comedic performance and it's the one I will most remember him for. So happy this movie exists.

This is a goofy offbeat comedy set is Mexico where Jack Black plays Friar Ignacio stuck with cooking for orphans in a remote monastery.He teams up with a street kid to form a tag team and although getting some bizarre beating in the ring they earn enough money to get better food for the orphans. Brother Ignacio also hopes to impress the new nun who he finds rather appealing. However as the monastery frowns on wrestling, he fights as a masked wrestlerAfter a while tired of losing and wanting to make money as a winner he challenges top wrestler Ramses and hope he can soar like an eagle.This is a quirky underdog story with a right blend of humour and action when the action is consigned to the ring but does not always flow altogether when the story is away from the ring when it can easily become dull despite some gross out humour.

As a multitude of films that have some soulless being translating the name.. Names shouldn't be translated, much less movie titles, the way they are in Portuguese is so awfully done..The title in Portuguese should be: "Nacho Livre (2006)" and not the nonsensical one it has: "Super Nacho - O Herói do Wrestling (2006)", a really bad translation for a title..Bad movie title translations on the side, good movie..P.S.:Please stop the person/people who translate movie titles on IMDb from doing it, they are ruining the IMDb image and changing the movie story/experience with that..

Of the four movies I have seen Jack Black in, I find this to be his best performance. The role was definitely written for him and you can see some parallels like his situation with Encarnancion in the storyline to those of School of Rock and Guliver's Travels. His humor is more varied in this than in School of Rock. I could do without the wrestling, though some might find humor and entertainment in it. I like the sidekick of Eskeleto and Ignacio's orphan friend Chancho. The lines of this movie, and especially their delivery, I think make it as good as it is. Other areas of humor that I find good are things like the progression of the food Ignacio serves and the party for Ramses that he goes to and the eagle egg scene. Its something that's good to watch with a big group of people, but I don't think it would top many people's lists. It isn't very similar to the aforementioned Black pictures, so it isn't worth seeing just for the actor. But if you like quotable movies, you'll enjoy this. It's kind of an underdog story, but not in an annoying way like lots of sports movies. The character of Ignacio is pretty good, because he's kind of caught in life that he's not cut out for. It really proves that not many people are meant for religious life and that religious people can be far from perfect. One of the best aspects of the movie is the little background song that they use. To poke holes in it, I might say that it was a poor portrayal of Mexican society, not that I really know anything about it. Its not exactly done crudely, but you can tell that the producers had a rather low budget to work with from the weird choreography of the wrestling scenes. I think it was done well enough, so the only reason that someone might not like this movie is if they prefer a different type of humor, or if you're like me and find the wrestling somewhat distasteful. So, for an overall rating, 8.2/10.