Like Nacho Libre, it's entertaining enough. Seems really dumbed-down. For a blender analogy, it's one part Groundhog Day, one part A Christmas Carol, three parts Happy Gilmore/Billy Madison/Waterboy, and maybe five parts 50 First Dates and Big Daddy (because it's heavy on the sap). Some of the jokes are very bad and won't get any better with age, I'm confident. In other parts the script is tedious and unsympathetic. Chris Walken gives a good-ish kind of phoned-in performance, Henry Winkler does well with the material. The rest of the supporting cast is mostly forgettable, and it has that symptom where the leading lady is given essentially no mind of her own. I don't like the Hoff in the movie.
The best recommendation I can offer is that if I were at a party and somebody had rented this or owned it and put it on, I wouldn't leave the party and I wouldn't deliberately avoid watching it again. But sometimes watching bad movies is OK in the theater.
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Nacho Libre
It's for kids, but it has some good laughs. Jack Black did a good job. It has an alright plot, too. Still, it could be a bit better, but okay for what it is.
