Y Tu Mama Tambien Reviews

Highly charged, warm and engaging road trip

A beautiful film - a touching portrait of teenage friendship and the angst/uncertainty/braggadocio that comes after puberty as young men/boys search for a sexual identity. It sounds heavy, but isn't - it's supremely watchable with touching emotional performances throughout, and the sexual energy is unbelievable.

Watch it!

Going nowhere..

This film is a road movie that goes nowhere.

Full of cliches and half-hearted stabs at important relationship issues. Implausible plot and dodgy sexual material, while it may appeal to those who are justing growing out of adolescence it says very little that rings true about relationships or people's emotional or sexual aspirations.

It looks good, the characters hold some interest but it fails to deliver anything meaningful or, for that matter, particulary entertaining. If you want something to turn you on you'd be better of with a proper blue movie, if you want some good world Cinema, look elsewhere.

I loved this film. It's funny, it's intelligent and it's incredibly moving. The actors give great performances and as it's set in Mexico, the scenery is amazing.

There is a huge amount of nudity and sexual content right from the very beginning of the film so if you're not comfortable with that, it's definitely not the film to rent. If you're fine with that though, I would definitely recommend this film.

Enigmatic

I thought this a fantastic film. I felt it works on many different levels- paradoxical at times. The rhythm and tone are set in the opening scene. This is a tumultuous film, which on one level can be seen as a 'coming of age road movie' speeding along at a lively canter while the interminably inebriated, sex-obsessed antiheroes leap from one misadventure to the next. Their puerile amoral approach to life is initially rather endearing and they come across as likeable rogues with little in the way of substance.

The lively pace is interspersed with a regular narrative, which brings a whole new dimension to the inane storyline. The narrative gives biographical glimpses of the characters, as well as of the social and political background to the film. Without thought or care the protagonists move through a world of poverty and suffering; this juxtaposition enhances the contrast between the frivolity of Julio and Tenoch and the harsh realities of daily existence.

For Luisa emancipation of the self is one of the main themes of the film. Her life circumstances and personality are revealed slowly as the film progreses. Meanwhile by entering into the hedonistic existence of Julio and Tenoch she creates a new facet to their friendship which ultimately leads to their downfall. It becomes apparent to them that actions have consequences and they do not like it. She also encourages an examination of their values(or lack of values) which they simply cannot cope with. There are no great epiphanies, no philosphical insights, no meaningful lessons are learned and at the end of the day life simply goes on. Perhaps that is the ultimate point of the film.

Forget your subtitle fears!

Any other coming of age movie is blown out of the water in comparison to this. Whilst giving a fascinating insight to Mexican life the story follows the lives of two teenage friends and a beautiful thirty something escaping from her adultorous husband. As the three search for a non existent beach called Heaven's Mouth they each find what they didn't expect - who they are. It's funny, moving and very very sexy.

An absolute must for all film lovers. A whimsical adventure following two horny teenage guys and a beautiful older lady. The Director (Alfonso Cuaron) has woven a very funny tale with some beautiful hidden undercurrents of how friendships are forged and broken.

Adolescence, sun, mind games, background of darkness

A film full of device-sound-bites that informs you about the future as you watch the present. This film contains honest nakedness, it demonstrates just how unsexual the human body can appear to you the onlooker, that the state of mind played out through a sequence of 'Road Movie' tableaux offers the 'real' nakedness.

Refreshingly, while the male adolescent preconditioned apitite for 'a woman-any woman' is displayed under the light of a hormonal torch, consumer sosciety (done to death in American films) makes way for day-to-day South America amidst simple cafes, inedible food, tempting spliffs and an alcohol intake that will make your head spin while you watch.

You may question whether you have mist some sexual opportunities or whether it is just as well you did (now that will get you watching!)

The dark references are subtle and illustrate with poignance the precious and fleeting nature of our physical journey, the harm we can so easily do each other. This film questions how much we are in cotrol and whether there is a fleeting chance to pass through a window to greater freedom.

The film is raw, candid, fun, surprising, revealing, philosophical, radical to the less aware, it will treat you kindly which ultimately is praise indeed - it has humanity.

And Your Mother, Too!

A story of the friendship between two hormone-filled Mexican teenagers, this haunting film traces their journey to a mythical (or so they believe!) beach paradise. Mexico being a big country, they're several days on the road -- plenty of time for shared sexual experience, a lust-triangle, confession, betrayal, self-discovery, and the ultimate loss of some part of the protagonists' youthful innocence. Action addicts may find it slow-moving, but if you're into nicely-crafted, slightly "arty" films that focus on character and theme (not to mention the genuinely erotic atmosphere that pervades the road-trip!) more than plot and excitement, this could well be something you'll love.

Brilliant, poignant, funny and touching. All in all a great piece of film-making and one that will leave you moved by the characters. The voice over device is particularly effective.

Teenage lad fantasy movie

I got this out because I was impressed by Maribel Verdu in the superb Pan's Labyrinth, so I looked up what else she'd done, and ended up with - this. Gratuitously foul mouthed, tedious, utterly implausible; a woman like her heading off with a pair of (literally) tossers like them? Not remotely funny.