Ellen Page on SNL

Ellen Page -- sad to discover she's a one-trick-pony. Can she actually speak in ANY other voice tone than her own? Watching her on SNL this past Saturday night validated what alot of well-versed people have said about her in JUNO -- she IS Juno, that wasn't a character she was playing. She speaks in the 'Juno' voice tone for EVERY character she played on SNL. Sad, sad, sad... as I really enjoyed her in JUNO.

Now... as for that Peter Pan skit? HILARIOUS! Aside from Fred Armison's little wacky newspaper commentary on Weekend Update, that Peter Pan skit was flat out hilarious. Whenever Ellen flew off again I just lost it.

No we don't need guns (no we don't need guns) and our swords are made of wood! (and our swords of made of wood!)

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If you've seen HARD CANDY you might disagree with the "one-trick pony" bit.

Many MANY actors make a living playing the same role over and over again with a different accent or different costumes. MANY!

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I watched and enjoyed both Juno and Hard Candy but she was definitely a fish out of water in this. I didn't even watch very much of it, she was just the same character the whole time.

Sorry...Juno was about the most boring character I've EVER seen.

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I thought she was ok. Peter Pan was great! And she was kinda funny in that skit she did in the Baby Gap being all "ghetto-fabulous".

Loved Hard Candy, have yet to see Juno tho.

Seems many have posted the clip on YouTube.com which have since been removed.

Keep checking, though... right, ray-andallthatjazz86?

Also, ray-andallthatjazz86 --- my observation seems to be unanimous (just read the other threads anywhere). Not only in her films (yes, even in X-MEN: THE LAST STAND), but on SNL this past weekend. Her Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana spoke in that drone 'Juno' voice (and personality) as did her bit as Viginica's ghetto step-daughter.

I love Ellen Page. It was just upsetting to see she can't break-out of that voice and personality. Christina Aguilera's comic skills when she hosted SNL were sharp and solid, as opposed to this Oscar nominated actress.

Comparable to Annette Bening's train-wreck appearance (she couldn't read a cue card to save her life!). I hit the delete button on my Tivo after the 3rd skit. It was painful. Poor Annette.

Let's not forget that a lot of the writing on SNL has gotten really bad. It seems as if THEY don't put much effort into it, so the guest hosts and cast only have what the writers give them to work with which is quite often crap.

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I didn't see her in SNL, and perhaps she wasn't good in that, but to say that she's just a one-trick pony because you saw her in all of two projects (one of which does not even entail an actual role) is absurd--not surprising coming from Brody.

Part of what made it look so bad was that her opening monologue involved a fake Diablo (the Juno writer) coming on and telling her to read the monologue Diablo wrote, not her own, but it was "too Juno" for Ellen. When she switched back and forth it was pretty much the same voice and same delivery, with the only difference between the two being some "izzles" a the ends of the words (pretty much the entire humor of the monologue).

So I think the fact that the opening monologue was "This is Juno, but this is Ellen" in the exact same voice exacerbated the feeling.

Aside from Fred Armisen during Weekend Update and Hilary Clinton appearing in the first skit, nothing really interested me this week. Hopefully next week will be better with Amy Adams.

This skit was actually funny. I miss SNL being funny... Christina really was great.
Christina as Samantha

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