Berated all his life by those around him, a monk follows his dream and dons a mask to moonlight as a Luchador (Mexican wrestler).Berated all his life by those around him, a monk follows his dream and dons a mask to moonlight as a Luchador (Mexican wrestler).Berated all his life by those around him, a monk follows his dream and dons a mask to moonlight as a Luchador (Mexican wrestler).
- Awards
- 1 win & 11 nominations total
Darius Rose
- Chancho
- (as Darius A. Rose)
Cesar Gonzalez
- Ramses
- (as Cesar Gonzalez 'Silver King')
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe song that Jack Black sings at the party was improvised. Jared Hess admitted he didn't have time to come up with one, Jack quickly replied "Leave it to me, I already got one."
- GoofsAfter Nacho puts salad dressing on Sister Encarnación salad and it cuts back and forth from their perspectives, in one scene the salad dressing is gone.
- Crazy creditsThe Nickelodeon Movies bumper at the beginning of the film is used with dinging bells at a wrestling arena.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Paul Behragam Talk Show: "Balto 2" R&T Part 1 (2015)
- SoundtracksEncarnacion
by Mike White, Jack Black & Jared Hess
Performed by Jack Black
Jack Black performs courtesy of Epic Records
Featured review
Much to my surprise, as I begrudgingly went to the movies with my 12 yr old son, I LOVED this film. I expected nothing, yet in return, I received a wonderful 1 hour and 40 minute respite from the real world, filled with slapstick humor and total silliness. Slapstick humor always walks a tightrope between bad taste and belly laughs. The Three Stooges are mind-numbingly inane: most laugh intensely and some never get the joke. Laurel and Hardy isn't for everyone either. Nacho Libre is not filled with Woody Allen irony, it doesn't have Christopher Guest's drollness, and it's not James Brook slick. It's not sophisticated humor! How can any film featuring Jack Black as a Mexican friar/fryer/wrestler/wannabe wooer ... all for the "good of the orphans" be taken seriously? It's simply for the 12 year old boy in all of us who laughs when Moe hits Curly and laughs when fat guys, even with over the top Mexican accents, are paired with skinny guys ... in a wrestling ring ... with stretchy pants.
I originally wrote this as a reply to a poster who asked if the mean IQ of people who liked this was 93, but the post was subsequently deleted. But to him I say, "By the way, I'm a physician and my IQ is a tad over 93. But even if I had no job at all and even if my IQ was 93 ... who cares ... I laughed, with my son, eating popcorn, in the dark. And that's the joy of sharing a movie like this." No es?
I originally wrote this as a reply to a poster who asked if the mean IQ of people who liked this was 93, but the post was subsequently deleted. But to him I say, "By the way, I'm a physician and my IQ is a tad over 93. But even if I had no job at all and even if my IQ was 93 ... who cares ... I laughed, with my son, eating popcorn, in the dark. And that's the joy of sharing a movie like this." No es?
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Box office
- Budget
- $35,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $80,197,993
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $28,309,599
- Jun 18, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $99,255,460
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