Machete kills – the sequel to the Mechete film we all viewed in class. The girls from the first movie Santana (Jessica Alba) and Luz (Michelle Rodriguez) have returned. As you remember Machete is a Federale. In Machete Kills the Mexican drug cartel is involved and its Machete’s mission to stop weapons suppliers selling to them. Dealing with law enforcement corruption Machete is taken by surprise of who he can trust. Charlie Sheen is the President of the US and cuts a deal with Machete. His services for in return US citizenship. In cohorts with the Mexican cartel is Marcos Mendez. A crazy man who is threatening to release a nuclear missile at the White House in Washington DC. He wants the American government to resist from trying to intervene with the Mexican government, the corrupt officials and the cartel.

Trying to find Marco, Machete meets new attractive women. They all seem attracted to him somehow. Rumors fly of how he handles women. With gun fights breaking out (without giving it away you’ll see lady gaga appear as a hot assassin. Machete is mis-guided with truest. After a gunfight he finds himself naturally Healy he is shown the operations of Mendez’s heart. He finds out his plans to detonate the nuclear weapon and to escape into space to rebuild his community.

With leading information, Machete is meets at the rendezvous point. This is wear he is ambushed and betrayed. Being shot and left to die, but Machete the super hero who never dies survives. He has special abilities to heal any wound. Deceit feels the mood and Machete notices an important killer. Without giving away who dies, a hint is its someone dear to him. As the missile launches Machete is there to save Washington DC from destruction.

The George Lopez sitcom was produced in 2002. The story line starts off with George Lopez, a middle-class father in a Chicano family of 4. His wife, teenage daughter and pre-teen son live together. Multiple scenes are based on common parenting issues of raising a daughter and a son at different milestones of their lives, turned in to a comedic lesson. Lopez himself growing up in a dysfunctional family with a single, lively, strong willed, resilient, ruthless, sarcastic, alcoholic, and careless mom. George and his wife live and raise their children in an American household without any Spanish language or cultural teaching. Lopez, continuously makes inside jokes or a few words in Spanish, but the majority of the show is based on an Mexican American up bringing.

Lopez works at the Power Brothers aviation factory. A company referred by his mother also employed there, he eventually becomes shift manager. Mentioned by his manager of business fluctuating and plummeting accounts leads to lay offs. Lopez decides to lay off his mother instead of hi best friend Ernie. Challenged with the racial politics in a corporate setting, Lopez is forced to take action. George eventually learns that he is toyed with and comes to find out that his choice of lay-off’s was the boss’s’ way of testing Lopez’s loyalty to the company. In result, with the lack of income this forces his mom to move in with them. Single parents seemed to eventually live with their sons and daughters being retired or to old to work to support themselves.

Other important characters are his wife’s indulgent father and Lopez’s child hood friend that is made to be socially awkward, unreliable, and lack of street smarts. Benny (his childhood friend) guards the secret that Lopez’s father is actually alive after growing up with his mother convincing him that he has died. In one episode, his father appears and seemed to be a rude, successful businessman, remarried with more children of his own. But his father’s neglect of Lopez comes to bite him in the butt. He ends up sick with kidney disease. After passing he leaves George a note, wishing him and his mother not to attend his funeral to avoid any negative drama. His father leaves him a gold watch from his grandfather. One thing his father gives him, not knowing the value Georges demolishes the watch. His mother later tells him it was worth a fortune.

In the year 2000 there were no more than 10 Hispanic oriented sitcoms on American television. The Lopez show was about a Chicano family living in an American community without showing the direct influence of their Hispanic culture background. His episodes touch base on everyday issues that families comes across in their lives. With a long time criticism of the lack of Latinos on screen, the network ABC signed his television series. It was one of the few Latin comedy series playing on prime time. Lopez was the co-creator, producer, writer and star of the show. The George Lopez show lasted for 6 seasons which was a total of 120 episodes from 2002-2007. Lopez, slightly taken back about the decision of the ABC network cancelling his show, criticized the president of ABC for using racially motivated reasons. An upset Lopez told LA Times that “TV just got really white again” “also commenting that Chicanos can’t have a tv show, but Caveman can”? Caveman was the show that replaced the George Lopez show after his 6^th season aired.