Nikki from the bowels of deepest, darkest Texas (and not even Austin) writes (and I didn’t edit this at all, so don’t blame me):

Why don’t more people like the movie Nacho Libre? Are my family and small group of friends alone in the wonderful atrocities in hilarity directed at hispanics/catholics? Do you really have to be a Hispanic or related to them to understand the fun? Have you seen it? What do you think? Are there to many questions here?

Why don’t people like any of the movies/books/television shows/radio dramas/comedians that they don’t like? Because taste is subjective — to a large degree. I mean, there are people whose opinions are more valid with regards to certain subjects. For example, a comedian probably ought to be listened to a little more closely than your average sorority girl, when it comes to deciding whether Dane Cook or Carlos Mencia are unfunny joke stealing hacks. In reality, of course, you really probably ought not listen to sorority girls on just about any subject beyond fruity cocktails and the inevitable dick sucking that follows.

I’m just kidding. Not all sorority girls are Dane Cook-loving drunken sluts. Some of them are just desperately afraid of living their own lives without the support network of their equally detestable “sisters.”

I mean, really this all comes down to “Why doesn’t everyone like what I like?!” People don’t all like what you like because you’re not always right. (Incidentally, people don’t always like what I like because they’re frequently wrong.) And you’ve really picked what could charitably be described as a divisive movie. Nacho Libre is intentionally bizarre. So of course there is going to be a large swath of the general public that doesn’t like it, doesn’t get it, doesn’t care to get it, or can’t be bothered to try. That’s how art works, even art as broad as film tends to be.

For the record, I liked Nacho Libre, but I think it’s the Hess’ weakest film. I think Napoleon Dynamite was incredibly funny, as was Gentlemen Broncos. But Gentlemen Broncos lost something in the neighborhood of $8.8 million during its theatrical run, so obviously the rest of the world doesn’t always agree with me.