YMMV / Machete Kills

• Anti-Climax Boss: El Camaleon is shot by a bunch of racist border patrolmen while Machete runs off in another direction, completely forgetting about him.
• Anvilicious: Similar to the previous film, a political message is thrown in there so heavy-handedly that it's clearly intentional. In the first film, it was about border crossing. In this, it's about the exploitation of Mexican labourers.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: Specifically, the movie is best remembered as the source of a meme comparing Alexa Vega's role as a stripper to that of her most famous one in Spy Kids.
• Complete Monster: Luther Voz, the founder and head of Voz Tech—"the world's premier space technology and weapons manufacturer"—first shows up in disguise during an arms deal and kills Machete's Love Interest, ICE Agent Sartana Rivera. He's also given a missile to crazed Mexican revolutionary Marcos Mendez, which is attached to a Dead Man's Switch and which Mendez plans to use to destroy Washington, D.C. Voz claims to "have a Mendez everywhere"—including North Korea and Russia—and plans to have them all fire missiles, as he believes the "world must end in order for a more perfect one to emerge"; Voz plans to take his followers and start said perfect world up in space. While the missiles are stopped, saving millions if not more, Voz manages to escape to space with his supporters; Luz, who's frozen in carbonite; as well as surviving members of the Network, who he plans to use for slave labor, along with the current Mexican migrants who are already slaves.
• Crazy Is Cool:
  • Madam Desdemona is insane, gleefully telling a torture victim about how she bit her own father's balls off and went to school the next day with bits of them still in her teeth. But she has also turned her bras into deadly firearms, and fires bullets from a strap on later.
  • Mendez proudly calls himself crazy "with a capital C", but he's such a diabolical Wild Card that one can't help but be impressed.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Killjoy has only two lines, and disappears from the film along with the rest of Desdemona's gang in the third act. But due to the novelty of her being played by a now grown up Alexa Vega means she's very remembered. The fake trailer at the start for Machete Kills Again In Space even spotlights her, suggesting she was intended to have a bigger role in a hypothetical third film.^note Alexa explained in an interview that the role was intended as a featured extra, and only given to her after she called Robert Rodriguez up and lobbied to be in the film. With no time to expand it too much, there would have been the promise of more screen time had the third film been made.

• Fanon: A lot of fans like to believe that Killjoy (Alexa Vega's cameo) is actually Carmen from Spy Kids all grown up and using a different name.
• Ham and Cheese: Mel Gibson is having a ball playing The Heavy for the first time.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: All the Star Wars references became this when Robert Rodriguez directed episodes of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett (the latter of which had Danny Trejo show up).
• Nausea Fuel: Desdemona talking about how she chewed off her abusive father's balls. It gets gross when she mentions that she went to school the next day with pieces of him stuck in her braces.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Walton Goggins as El Camaleón. The other three actors in the role, too.
  • Madame Desdemona delivers two awesome speeches (the "house rules" one and the "ball-biter" one), and makes a persuasive case for casting Harley Quinn as a Latina.
• Questionable Casting:
  • Casting Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson in roles almost seems like a dare by Robert Rodriguez for people to complain about the casting. And is likely the point, considering the casting in grindhouse movies this series parodies.
  • Half of the people who play El Camaleon.
  • Vanessa Hudgens as a Mexican prostitute.
• Sequelitis: Unlike the original, the film flopped at the box office and got panned by critics.
• Special Effect Failure: 99% of the violence is CGI. Very poorly-done CGI.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: The El Camaleon subplot ties into the main story ultimately very little; only ending up picking up Machete after he escapes from Voz, and he then escapes him before he can do anything of importance. He's then unceremoniously killed by equally insignificant characters, rendering most of his screen time pointless.
• Viewer Name Confusion: Amber Heard's character actually has a name - Bianca Vasquez - but is remembered more for being 'Miss San Antonio', which she even refers to herself as when calling the president.

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