Everyone's a critic: 'Nacho Libre'

Three stars (out of four)

Jack Black will charm you with his audacity in "Nacho Libre." Even while you laugh at his adolescent antics, including farting at inappropriate times, squeezing his buttocks to show off for the pretty nun and laying a trap for his skeletal sidekick with stale chips, you develop a soft spot for this poor loser.

For its goofiness, the story is heartwarming and when Nacho goes against the dreaded wrestler, Ramses, you cheer for Nacho. Not only so the endearing orphans will be fed, but so the fat underdog gets a chance to "be the gatekeeper of his own destiny." The virginal nun, Nacho's love interest, makes you believe in God by her very face.

When you groan at another bathroom joke, there is a little part of you that wants to try the free-style wrestling called "lucha libre" so you can wear stretchy pants, a mask, and get the glory.

-- Reno Anderson

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Three stars (out of four)

First off, I have to apologize for laughing so loud. The gentleman behind me and I did not hold back when we saw something that made us laugh. It seems that some of us older folk (35- to 40-something) got more of the humor than the younger ones.

This is a funny and silly movie. Jack Black plays a second-class Mexican priest who finds that caring for the children of the orphanage is his destiny, but when funds and food are hard to come by, he finds an unusual way to provide for them: wrestling.

He enlists a homeless person as his partner and they begin to work their way through the ranks. When his identity is revealed, he is thrown out of the mission. As they begin to get paid for the matches, he still provides for the children and wins the heart of a nun.

Then when one of the top wrestlers gets injured, he is the one that goes up against the meanest one of them all. Though the story line is a little screwy, you will laugh.

-- Verbal Walters