Bhumi loves nacho fries at Taco Bell. Even after a full meal, her parents said she’s still up for stopping by the fast food chain to have them for a quick snack. So when Bhumi, a second-grader ...

But Nacho is Napoleon; his scrawny, slightly effeminate wrestling partner, Esqueleto (Hector Jimenez), is Pedro; and the doe-eyed Sister Encarnacion (Mexican telenovela star Ana de la Reguera) is Deb.

His character, Brother Ignacio, in the comedy “Nacho Libre” overflows with those two characteristics. Like previous slap shtick comedians, Black turns the mundane into the preposterous.

LOS ANGELES — Jack Black puts in serious work to make himself outrageously funny. For “Nacho Libre,” in which he plays a cook in a Mexican orphanage who moonlights as ...