Nacho Libre

You know, this movie has really altered our lives.  I kid you not.  We were introduced to it about a year and a half ago by my youngest sister.  She had gone to Mexico for two weeks or so and came back with some stuff for the kids and us, which included those masks those high flying Mexican wrestlers wear

like this..

And oh the boys ate it up.  They immediately became high flying Mexican wrestlers.  We have pictures and everything.  It made me laugh my big big laugh, the really loud laugh that makes everyone uncomfortable?  Yep, that one.  She also brought this movie for them to watch that night, Nacho Libre.  Little did she (or any of us) know it would be such a hit, particularly with my boys (and me!) that she'd have to leave it here.  I think they watched it no less than five times in the next 24-48 hours.  Laughing at the same parts as if they'd never seen them before.  Me too.  At some point I realized that I'd have to buy our own copy as it was fast becoming a classic in this household and we couldn't hold hostage her movie any longer.  We all began to memorize the lines of the movie, all the scenes.  It was scary I think.  Funny.  Hilarious.  But probably really scary.  Scary that we all thought this silly movie was so flippin' funny.  Scary that we kept watching it over and over.  All four of us. 

We started to You Tube the songs of the movie.  Then we found other stuff where people had hilariously acted out the best scenes of this silly movie and we'd watch them and compare and laugh all over again. 

"Watch this one!"  "Wait, wait, watch this one!  It's so funny!" and on and on it went.  I don't know.  I can't explain it.  Maybe it's best explained in two words:  Jack Black.  The guy is downright hysterical.  He's deadpan on the funniest moments and that alone splits my sides.  Then all the funny schmack he says in this movie, oh I could quote the lines...but I won't bore you. 

There's this one song, Encarnacion, that he sings.  The Littlest replaces words in it left and right.  And if you've never seen the movie, it won't make sense but one of the latter lines in the song says, "Then we break our vows together" (yes, makes no sense, very silly, but hence, the whole flippin' movie...) and the Littlest says every single time, "we break our jaws together" and every time he sings it that way I die.  Like all over again, laughing, laughing, laughing, like I'm hearing it for the first time.  Who would want to break their jaws?  And break them together?  It doesn't even DAWN on him that he's singing it the wrong way.  Or the hilarity of words he's singing.  He just sings it and thinks that's right.  It cracks me up.

How close we all are can simply be measured by this silly movie.  Hard to explain.  We all just get it.  We all happen to think it's pretty dang funny (pretty dang exciting huh?) and there you go.  Nothing further need to be explained.  Just one of those silly things that you 'had to be there for' in the beginning or you'd never get it or think it's as funny as we clearly falling on the floor laughing do.  The guy is funny.  He's pretty frickin' hilarious.  I must say.