Before Nacho Libre came out, I kept reading speculation about what a collaboration between Jack Black and Jared Hess (director of Napoleon Dynamite) might be like. Well, to my mind it seemed very much like what one might expect to see in a collaboration between . . . John Kricfalusi and Wes Anderson. Manic energy, mildly grotesque imagery and fart jokes shoehorned into a series of painterly set pieces and still lifes, overlaid with a carefully-chosen mix of eclectic pop songs.

In retrospect, I wonder if I thought of John K. because he’s directed a Tenacious D video, so Jack Black brought him to mind subconsciously . . .