'Nacho Libre,' 'The Lake House,' 'Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties,' and 'The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'
8 a.m. Friday, June 16, 2006
Nobody is more comfortable flaunting his unsightly body for comedic effect than Jack Black. In “Nacho Libre,” Black plays a cook who tries to financially save his beloved Mexican orphanage by joining a Lucha Libre tournament populated by the iconic masked wrestlers of the region.
Filmmaker Jared Hess' follow-up to "Napoleon Dynamite" once again lets his lead character do most of the work. There are some individual laughs to be found, most of them courtesy of the portly, hammy comedian. But "Nacho Libre" falls into the same trap as Hess' eccentric "Dynamite."
There's the sense Hess is always laughing at rather than with his exceptionally homely cast. Plus, the sketchy, episodic plot is really only held together through Black's relentless energy.
Also opening in Topeka theaters is "The Lake House."
The romance reunites "Speed" stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in a tale of a two people occupying the same lakeside home at different times who begin exchanging love letters. The supernatural catch is they discover they're living two years apart from each other.
And two extraneous sequels make an appearance.
Bill Murray returns as the cartoon voice in "Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties," which finds the finicky cat ruling an English castle. While Vin Diesel and Paul Walker don't return to "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," which stars Lucas Black as a young troublemaker who gets caught up in the world of Japanese drift racing.
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