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| | Review: Nacho Libre - Cinematical |
 | | And there are laugh moments in Nacho Libre, certainly; it's hard to not get a laugh out of Jack Black trying to drink an eagle's egg raw, or from Black making individually decorated salads with a kind of monomaniacal frenzied energy, or from -- the comedy director's friend -- a midget sequence. |
 | | Nacho Libre takes place in a universe where everyone is an idiot, but as it's all in this kinda-fictional Mexico, there's an unfortunate racial edge; add in Black's outrageous fake Latino accent, and you've got a film that skates incredibly close to the line of stereotype and caricature. |
 | | But for me, Nacho had no sizzle, no spice, no flavor, no homemade goodness; it's a little bland, a little flavorless and a little too slack to make me do anything but laugh weakly at the occasional raised eyebrow or pooched-out roll of flesh erupting over aquamarine tights. |
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