With this comedy about a friar at a Mexican orphanage who dreams of success in that country’s wild world of lucha Libre wrestling, writer-director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) and star Jack Black (School of Rock) create another enviable loser – you know, the kind of social reject so comfortable in his eccentricities that he’s not really aware he’s been rejected. Hess treats his often painfully gawky subjects with the sort of reverence normally given a matinee idol, and Black hilariously plays right into this style. He wears his bulging, sky-blue-and-red wrestling costume with aplomb, even though it makes him look like Superman’s couch-potato cousin.
