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Movie: Gaga: good reviews for Machete Kills performance
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Gaga: good reviews for Machete Kills performance
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Originally posted by USA Today
There's no denying the film's fun spot-the-star cameo challenge: Mel Gibson, Lady Gaga, Sofia Vergara and Michelle Rodriguez must have a fondness for camp and arterial spray, and they infuse Machete with genuine energy.
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Originally posted by Roger Ebert
Lady Gaga, Walton Goggins, Antonio Banderas and Cuba Gooding Jr., all play an assassin named La Camaleón, and their performances are surprisingly consistent.
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Originally posted by Kurt Loder
and a face-shifting assassin called the Chameleon, who’s played at various points by Cuba Gooding Jr., Antonio Banderas and Lady Gaga in an orange wig (she’s not bad, haters).
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Originally posted by Dustin Putman
Lady Gaga (in her first film) shows unsurprising flair as the Chameleon's sexiest guise
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Originally posted by Kaplan vs. Kaplan
Perhaps Rodriguez' most interesting development in "Machete Kills" is the role of El Camaleon, played by Cuba Gooding, Jr., Lady Gaga, Walt Goggins and, my personal favorite, Antonio Banderas, who has done six films with Rodriguez. It's a terrific shtick, especially with Lady Gaga running around in a wolf coat with tangerine hair.
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Originally posted by Examiner
Michelle Rodriguez is back for "taco time" as rebel leader Luz, but she seems tame in comparison to Lady Gaga, who struts sexually as The Chameleon, a villain who can change faces (and genders) at a whim.
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Originally posted by NPR
And the revolving cast of actors filing extended cameos as the shape-shifting "El Camaleon" is, admittedly, an often hilarious touch.
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Originally posted by Variety
Michelle Rodriguez and Jessica Alba reprise their roles from the original; Walt Goggins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Antonio Banderas and Lady Gaga all make good with their respective turns as assassins; and “Spy Kids” alumna Alexa Vega finally completes her maturation from child star to ludicrously pneumatic sexpot.
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Originally posted by Empire
Like a Grindhouse Woody Allen, Rodriguez attracts much talent, albeit off the boil, to his high-turnover cheapies, here once more surrounding Danny Trejo (not actually a terrible actor, but as Machete directed to possess all the charisma of a tree stump) with game-for-a-laugh famous faces in a series of stunt cameos. Which, frankly, are the film’s biggest attraction. Walton Goggins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Antonio Banderas and, yeah, Lady Gaga all appear — playing the same character.
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Originally posted by Joblo
There are tons of other fun parts, with Cuba Gooding Jr, Antonio Banderas, Sofia Vergara, Vanessa Hudgens, Lady Gaga, William Sadler, and more showing up here and there.
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Originally posted by IGN
The aforementioned President is played by Charlie Sheen – here billed as Carlos Eztevez – and having America’s favourite bad-boy show up as the country’s Commander-in-Chief is stunt casting that shouldn’t work but does, with Sheen playing the part straighter than you’d expect.
Which is not an accusation that can be levelled at Lady Gaga, who looks like she’s just walked off the set of a Russ Meyer movie as a man-eating assassin, with crazy cascading from her every line delivery.
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Originally posted by Canoe
Jessica Alba does an uncredited and brief reprise of her role from the original Machete movie. In the sequel, we also get Michelle Rodriguez (no relation to the filmmakers) returning as Luz, along with the introduction of Demian Bichir, Amber Heard, Alexa Vega, Antonio Banderas, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Hudgens and even sexy singer Lady Gaga.
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Originally posted by AV Club
Sheen’s role is one of a dozen small parts in Machete Kills that elevate the movie beyond its Z-movie inspirations: Walton Goggins, Lady Gaga, Antonio Banderas, Cuba Gooding Jr., and William Sadler show up, get silly (and/or killed), and then depart.
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Originally posted by Red Eye
A killer known as the Chameleon changes faces on a regular basis, and the transitions (FYI: Lady Gaga is one of them) are wonderfully implausible.
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Just to get some balance.
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Most of these are neutral but clock!
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
Most of these are neutral but clock!
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I see lots of 'good' and 'wonderful;' not 'okay.'
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Yas she better get RAZZiECURED!
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No shade but I don't see the praise for Gaga's performance per se.
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Queen, she's coming for ha Oscar.
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Gaga coming for every award. Hide your faves.
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Originally posted by werkbitch
No shade but I don't see the praise for Gaga's performance per se.
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nn there's always one that doesn't get it
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Originally posted by werkbitch
No shade but I don't see the praise for Gaga's performance per se.
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Which is not an accusation that can be levelled at Lady Gaga, who looks like she’s just walked off the set of a Russ Meyer movie as a man-eating assassin, with crazy cascading from her every line delivery.
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Originally posted by Clump
Yas she better get RAZZiECURED!
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I don't know why this killed me.
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nnn wheres everyone else?
scurred of getting clocked?
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Originally posted by FreeBitch
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and how about the rest of the reviews?
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The only good review was the Red Eye one, the other ones are neutral
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Oop,
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Originally posted by Chemist
The only good review was the Red Eye one, the other ones are neutral
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Yep
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Originally posted by Chemist
The only good review was the Red Eye one, the other ones are neutral
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crazy cascading from her every line delivery.
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film’s biggest attraction
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Gaga her power!
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Oh, and more than 3 quotes!
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Originally posted by ALA
Oh, and more than 3 quotes!
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Originally posted by FreeBitch
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A killer known as the Chameleon changes faces on a regular basis, and the transitions (FYI: Lady Gaga is one of them) are wonderfully implausible.
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Queen of Movies
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