Nacho Libre: The Next Jackie Brown?

@ Gone Hollywood | Monday, June 12, 2006

Can a tale of a slop cook in a Mexican orphanage named “Nacho” who moonlights as a masked Lucha Libre wrestler to raise money for the orphans be the next Napoleon Dynamite?

It’s directed by the same guy, Jared Hess, but it’s missing the star, and the guy who made Napoleon such a quotable, memorable character, Jon Heder. Granted, Jack Black is a funny man, and great actor. Yet, something tells me we’re in store for a good movie, but not Napoleon Dynamite Part 2.

It smells of the time Pulp Fiction came out and became a quotable cultural phenomenon in the mid 90’s. You couldn’t go anywhere without a “royale with cheese” or “medieval on your ass” comment by just about anyone. Then Jackie Brown came out, and while it was a great movie, it wasn’t Pulp Fiction.

In any case, I have not seen it yet, so it may very well be superior in all regards, and I will swallow my words.