Nacho Libre

[TB4000]

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"From the creators of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE and SCHOOL OF ROCK comes a wildly original, off-the-wall comedy about Nacho, a lowly slop cook at an orphanage who secretly dreams of becoming a famous Mexican wrestler. Moonlighting in disguise, he is ultimately exposed and excommunicated by the church. But when he defeats Mexico's most feared Luchador, and gives his winnings to the orphans, he becomes a local hero.


Coming June 2006.

[bluemonq]

this sounds so cheesy, i'm don't think it's going to be very gouda to watch. the plot seems to be pourly conceived; autun they reconsider it? ach, but that's just me; it's probably going to be a munster of a hit.

[deez nuts]

there's only one nacho and that's nacho vidal.

[Chad]

this sounds so cheesy, i'm don't think it's going to be very gouda to watch. the plot seems to be pourly conceived; autun they reconsider it? ach, but that's just me; it's probably going to be a munster of a hit.
oh come on dude it's saturday night and i'm at work and need some better jokes than this.

[Faithless]

From the files of "Ask a Mexican":

¡Ask a Mexican! (http://www.ocweekly.com/columns/ask-a-mexican/ask-a-mexican/25479/)

'Real-life Mexicans not only don’t care about those stereotypes, they embrace them'

By Gustavo Arellano | Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 3:00 pm

Dear Mexican: I’m a culturally sensitive, P.C. Asian-American who laughed my head off at Jack Black’s imitation of a Mexican in Nacho Libre. Is this wrong?

Vietnammy Mammy

Dear Chinita: Wrong? Of course not. While Latino activists weep and moan about how gabachos like Jack Black reduce Mexicans to stock characters with mustaches and bad accents, real-life Mexicans not only don’t care about those stereotypes, they embrace them. Visit your local Mexican restaurant and its logo is most likely the Mexican that American consumers have demanded from Hollywood for over a century—a fat greaser sleeping under a cactus or burro. Check out my real-life portrait that runs with this column. And did you notice that many of the Mexican fans who attended last month’s FIFA World Cup in Germany dressed in ponchos, fake mustaches the size of black kittens and sombreros large enough to use as a raft? Mexicans know that caricatures are just that—exaggerated depictions based on a kernel of truth that no one should take seriously. Besides, Mexicans love to offend as much as gabachos: switch on Telemundo or Univisión, where hilarious caricatures of jotos, negritos, chinos, gabachos, indios, fat people, the rich, the poor, chicas calientes, dwarves—everyone and anyone—prance across the screen. So laugh away during Nacho Libre, Vietnammy Mammy, but remember this: if you laugh at Mexicans, you better laugh as well when we depict your race as buck-toothed, slanty-eyed, rice rocket-driving dog-eaters in the next hot telenovela.
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