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"NACHO LIBRE" AN EMBARRASSMENT
JACK BLACK, STAR OF THE NEW FILM "NACHO LIBRE," is trailed by actors in
Mexican lucha libre wrestling costumes at the premiere of the film at Grauman's Chinese
Theatre in Los Angeles, Monday. June 12, 2006. In the film, Black plays a cook who moon-
lights as a lucha libre wrestler to raise money for orphans. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
"NACHO LIBRE-
GRADE: *
Nacho Libre, which is co-
written by Napoleon
Dynamite's Jared Hess as well
as Jerusha Hess and School of
Rock writer Mike White is an
embarrassment.
The movie is amateurish,
excruciating to watch, and dif-
ficult to believe that men with
comic sharp minds such as
Hess, White and Jack Black
could fall so short of the mark.
The story revolves around
Nacho (Blacki. an orphan with
no skills, who is a cook — and
a bad one — at the monastery
where he was raised.
Nacho wants to earn money
to buy better ingredients so he
can cook better meals for the
orphans and priests — as well
as the newly arrived Sister
Encarnacion. He decides to
become a wrestler.
The movie's jokes basically
revolve around Nacho getting
beat up in the ring as well as
several revolving around flatu-
lence.
The humor is strictly grade umentary about the ex-vice
school. The movie is missing president's efforts to educate
the wit and charm Hess, who Americans on the threat of
directs, created for Napoleon
Dynamite and White and Black
used in School of Rock.
Black's phony Mexican
accent is awful, but maybe
that's part of the joke.
Nacho Libre is so bad that it
could set U.S.-Mexican rela-
tions back 50 years, but it may
solve the illegal worker situa-
tion as millions begin stream-
ing out of the country to flee
this film.
Nacho Libre is a sleeper
hold on the careers of all
involved.
"AN INCONVENIENT
TRUTH"
GRADE: ****
There is a very scary movie
in theaters these days, but it
has nothine to do with the hor-
ror genre.
Al Gore will send chilld
down your spine with "An
Inconvenient Truth." a
provocative and disturbing doc-
global warming.
The Al Gore we see in the
film doesn't act like an
alarmist. He speaks in a calm,
controlled voice, makes jokes
and carriess himself with pro-
fessorial restraint.
But he'll still scare the
pants off you.
For the last several years
Gore has been touring the
world with what he calls ""the
slide show" a sophisticated
multimedia presentation that
carefully lays out the history of
global warming It's the world's
biggest PowerPoint presenta-
tion, and Gore walks the stage
in front of a massive screen
onto which charts, maps, pho-
tos and text are projected.
Referring to his presenta-
tion as "a nature hike through
the Book of Revelation." Gore
informs us that 2005 had the
highest temperatures ever
recorded, and that the 10
hottest years in recorded histo-
ry happened in the last 14
years.
He contrasts photos of glaci-
ers and ice floes taken decades
ago with more recent shots to
illustrate their accelerated
melting. He says Arctic biolo-
gists are finding the bodies of
polar bears that have drowned
while looking in vain for solid
ice upon which they can rest
and hunt.
The culprit, Gore insists, is
carbon dioxide generated by
our fossil fuel-burning lifestyle.
Americans contribute more
carbon dioxide to the atmos-
phere than the rest of the world
combined.
Gore's presentation has
been so carefully scripted and
thoroughly rehearsed that
there's hardly a second of
spontaneity in it. His message:
global warming is real, we're
responsible for it, and we can
do something about it without
ruining the U.S. economy. But
we're running out of time
"CARS-
GRADE: ***»
In "Cars," the animation
wizards at Pixar imagine an
alternate universe where auto-
mobiles drive themselvesand
talk. TV shows are interrupted
for "braking news" bulletins,
flies are shaped like tiny
Volkswagen Bugs and the skies
are sometimes streaked fluffy
white tire tracks instead of
vapor trails from airplanes
(and gas also doesn't cost a
dime apparently). It's another
amazing achievement for the
studio, as the film captures the
imagination of children while
throwing is some humor for the
adults in the room as well.
"Cars" has jokes such as a
racing car sponsored by Hostile
Takeover Bank, and there's
cameo appearances from Tom
and Ray Magliozzi. the hosts of
National Public Radio's "Car
Talk"), it also features some
stunning visuals, including a
mock Monument Valley, in
which all the rock formations
are shaped like hubcaps and
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