- A Mexican priest becomes a wrestler to save an orphanage or something -
I went to see this movie because it was about non-WWF wrestling and so I thought it might be funny. It wasn't. It is excruciating to watch. Embarrassing. Any and every opportunity for comedy is mercilessly squandered.
I admit I don't like Jack Black anyway. After this I have been racking my brain to think of one good role that he has performed. The only thing I can come up with where he was o.k. was as a necessary foil to the John Cusack character in 'High Fidelity'. Jack Black is one of those awful relentless flat-out ham-it-up knockabout guys (like the little fat one in Abbot & Costello or Jerry Lewis) who should be told that being overbearingly idiotic is not the same thing as being funny.
It is not even slapstick. It's just irritating. It's not even stoopid, it's just stupid.
I heard good things about Napoleon Dynamite too, but if this is anything to go by I wont be rushing out to find it on DVD.