‘Nacho’ is cheesy humor

Nacho Libre” is an amusing farce that’s lighter than air, without meaning and completely disposable. Goofy humor and silly situations abound when a novice monk moonlights as a crazy masked wrestler in rural Mexico. Jack Black is perfectly cast in this role as the second coming of John Belushi. He’s a lovable loser with big dreams, a bigger belly and a gift for physical comedy.

The obvious plot unfolds without any real surprises and only a few big laughs. But it has a steady stream of constant chuckles that kept the packed house at my screening happily entertained. Aimed squarely at the under-15 crowd, the potty humor and stupid jokes don’t require much effort to comprehend. The comedy in “Nacho Libre” has all the depth of a slapstick comedian slipping across the screen on a banana peel. But the phony wrestling scene feeds right into the parody at handIt’s a total escape from reality that you can see today and forget tomorrow because nothing of substance occurs in this film, except that you will laugh before you leave.