They Just F*@*!$# With The Wrong Mexican

Pity the fool who saw 2007's Grindhouse feature, Planet Terror, and didn't want to see the fake trailer for Machete made into a real life, honest to God movie. Fortunately, Planet Terror creator Robert Rodriguez has a history of Mexploitation flicks from the Mariachi trilogy to From Dusk Till Dawn, meaning that Machete is now a reality.

It's everything you'd expect; in part due to it's slavish devotion to staying true to that original fake trailer and in part due to what we've come to expect from Rodriquez. There's the anti-hero the audience is rooting for (Danny Trejo with screen presence in spades), the large eclectic ensemble cast of Southern USA, Mexican actors (oh, and hot, naked actresses). Add to that some mega violance and gore, black humour, cool western exteriors, great speaches, groovy mexican rock songs. And Jessica Alba naked (even if it is CGI enhanced.)

Dumber than a box full of drunken badgers (and all the better for it) Machete is as glouriously fun as the faux trailer suggested. Now, what I really want to see is Rob Zombies 'Werewolf Women of the SS' adapted to a full length Grindhouse feature (starring Nicholas Cage as Fu Manch, of course!)