Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

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• Cynthia S

  
  Even though Gael Garcia Bernal is a favorite actor of mine, I don't share the enthusiasm this movie was received with. Most of all, this is about a couple of teenagers who act like two complete brats throughout, and who think about nothing else but sex, booze, drugs, and to have… More
  Even though Gael Garcia Bernal is a favorite actor of mine, I don't share the enthusiasm this movie was received with. Most of all, this is about a couple of teenagers who act like two complete brats throughout, and who think about nothing else but sex, booze, drugs, and to have a good time at any cost. Not really my cup of tea, I guess.

• Idrees K

  
  I've rarely seen other movies that depict characters and lifestyles as real as this. They didn't go through any extra effort to depict Mexico as a place of criminal or as nature's paradise, which is done much too often.

• Steven C

  
  I really didn't find anything that special in Alfonso Cuaron's surreal "Y Tu Mama Tambien." Sure, the performances are natural and the cinematography is vivid and dreamlike but the story is not all that probing. The film wants to illuminate questions about life,… More
  I really didn't find anything that special in Alfonso Cuaron's surreal "Y Tu Mama Tambien." Sure, the performances are natural and the cinematography is vivid and dreamlike but the story is not all that probing. The film wants to illuminate questions about life, love, friendship and sex but just kind of makes half-hearted comments about them, rather than committing to anything real. I did admire the film for taking it's extremely close male teenagers and exploring the intimacy males form with each other and taking it to taboo places. There is nothing "gay" about this film but it's certainly dealing with male intimacy, which can lead to homosexual encounters. Don't expect a 'coming out' story but expect an interesting take on male bonding. Still, it never seems to go far enough to really make a mark.

• Conner R

  
  I think that next to Five Easy Pieces, this is the greatest road film ever made. Itâ??s so accurate in terms of capturing real human emotion and life that it almost feels like it should be a documentary. The characters are amazing to watch. Not one of them are perfect people, in fact… More
  I think that next to Five Easy Pieces, this is the greatest road film ever made. Itâ??s so accurate in terms of capturing real human emotion and life that it almost feels like it should be a documentary. The characters are amazing to watch. Not one of them are perfect people, in fact they are all full of flaws and defects. However, thatâ??s what makes them so good. Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luno give some amazing performances as teenagers in need of sex, drugs and fun. They are sort of the everyday person. They donâ??t know everything, in fact they have everything to learn. The road trip really makes them realize who they are and what they want. The coming of age element is something that everyone can connect to and this really takes a step further than any other movie. It dares to tempt you with sex and make you question relationships and friendship, something I wish more films would do. I think in terms of cinematography, this movie is just beautiful. You donâ??t see shots of the open road like that very often and the filming style is very much intertwined with the characters and story. It isnâ??t clean cut or refined, in fact itâ??s sort of dirty. I wouldnâ??t have a movie like this any other way though. It is as close to perfection as they come.

• danny d

  
  this is a silly film. billed as a coming of age story, it plays more like a story about a married woman making two teenage boys fantasy come true. a little trashy and without purpose, this is an overhyped and pointless film.

• Anthony L

  
  Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal have become quite a popular double act in South America and you can see why in this film. Unfortunatly though, I found Y Tu Mama Tambien to be a bit of a dissapointment. Its become a victim of its own hype. It's not a bad film at all, just not as… More
  Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal have become quite a popular double act in South America and you can see why in this film. Unfortunatly though, I found Y Tu Mama Tambien to be a bit of a dissapointment. Its become a victim of its own hype. It's not a bad film at all, just not as good as i'd been lead to believe.

• Lorenzo v

  
  <i>"Life is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea."</i> In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other. <center><font size=+2… More
  <i>"Life is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea."</i> In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other. <center><font size=+2 face="Century Schoolbook"><b><u>REVIEW</u></b></font></center> `Jules & Jim' go South of the Border could have been the pitch filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron made in this funny and at times unexpectedly touchingly real look at sex, friendship, love and life lessons involving two immature Mexican buddies (Bernal and Luna) who hook up with sexy Verdu on a road trip to a seemingly fictitious beach whereby en route they discover some revealing things about themselves together and apart. Frankly sexual yet not exploitative in its depiction of unbridled passion and having an almost quasi-documentary feel to its underpinnings. A real sleeper that uncorks the differences between the sexes and a true coming of age story that rings universal no matter what language it is told in.

• Sophie B

  
  I really liked the setting and the mise en scene to this movie but the plot was rubbish and boring and the subtitles made it difficult for me to enjoy any part of it. Simply boring.

• Ken S

  
  Can't go wrong with Alfonso Cuaron

• Veronique K

  
  "and your mother too" is like the cinematic representation of mexican juvenile version of jack kerouac's "on the road", a contemporary road movie is raging outloud with audacity on epicurean narcotic indulgement and graphic sex as well as some leftist apathy… More
  "and your mother too" is like the cinematic representation of mexican juvenile version of jack kerouac's "on the road", a contemporary road movie is raging outloud with audacity on epicurean narcotic indulgement and graphic sex as well as some leftist apathy on the banal mexican politics, a coming of age tale on the obnoxious self-centered youth. frankly, it's less than i have expected in the first place, but compared with the shallow chessy american teen movies, this one is much more provocatively realistic and joyfully poignant. it sweeps the audience, particularly males, with its gritty honesty. but except its honesty and emancipation from the ideological apparatus dominates the american cinema, it seems to lack a meaningful point. maybe that reflects the absence of respect for life is a common nowaday phenomenon? the story is simple, two spoilt rich kids with well-to-dp parents have excessive money and leisure time on their hands to smoke pots and shag around. what troubles them most is simply the overwhelming boredom becuz they don't have a thing to worry or concern in the world. so they whimsically targets on an older relative's lonely wife who happens to be addled with her spouse's infidelity, conjuring up a beach called heaven's mouth which may not exist to get her into a long road trip with them. they're fortunate becuz this wretched woman needs new exploration of life to savor her drab life and she may also be secretly wishing to get laid. so here they are....on the road. despite the dosage of sex might be a bit too heavy and spicy (as if it's a dish served for me, the audience, to taste. ha), but this movie obeys a very human tangible principle by being dialogue-driven...thru their conversations within the car, the profile of their characters are drawed with dimensions. but it depends highly on narrations to help rendering their psychological developments as well as their sweet and sour past memories. (a merit or defect?) it's freewheeling just like "on the road", kerouac's narrator sal paradise depicts all his friends' disdemeanors while himself seems to play the "metanarrative" to tell you all their thinkings. but the narrator in the movie doesn't play a part in the story but stays detached like a voyeurist. the kerouac beatniks in "on the road" still holds a yearning to seek some spirituality even their carnial fleshes are rotten with overflown desires. somehow the youth in "and your mother too" lose that course of mentality for sure, their main purpose is potential orgy. and also women in "on the road" is simply sex objects devoid of character dimensions as the men are probing life while shagging them(pardon the phrase..)..but "and your mother too" seems to reverse that, woman is the one in search of a meaning, the motor to drive the men forward as she's getting her un-satisfactory laids(transiet and lack of "quality"), she's contemplating on life, weeping her way over a divorce, solving it resourcefully with tenderness despite her behaviours, on the other hand, aren't quite discreet. the audience would firstly associate this movie by the sex since the woman character is too willing and available like an ideal phallic dream for male adolescents: a hot mature chic is more than ready for your penetration and she's also maternally big-hearted enough to offer your pal once just to mend your brotherly companionship. most of all, she ain't timid over a spontaneous threesome. where you could obtain such divine opportunity?? huh? primarily, the audience would surely dismiss the feministic aspect of it since the men are the ones sexually profited from this, but the movie is also frank enough to expose that young dudes cannot give gratifying sex. (at least they're "polite" enough to apologize for it)..but the whole story is about the woman's anew expenditure to break thru her withered life of temporality. in the field of film noir and beat generation literature, american outlaws, criminals or rebellious youth always escape to mexico, a primitive land of vitality, for a glimpse of light for life. how about mexicans themselves? to run even further from the metropolitan area to the savage highways close the pacific ocean. thus i call it comtemporary mexican interpretation of "on the road"... (ps) as you're watching it, you might feel the digust that why a educated well-shaped woman could be so low to condescend herself as a cheap gratuitous plaything for two brats who cannot even....and the boys are all self-centered enough to neglect the fact she's crying herself in the phonebooth inside the tavern. no one consoles her while herself is lightened up with the spirit to teach these two brats the truth of life, some free sex lessons as well as some meanings of things.(wouldn't that be a bit TOO EASY?) you won't excuse her until her disastrous revelation in the end....and one feeling i have over it would be sex is the best at the stage of your covetous imagination, watching every move in microscople makes you lose the admiring affection over the opposite sex. (it's for both man and woman)

• Jennifer X

  
  The thing I enjoyed most was the evolution of Maribel Verdu's character. She goes from reluctant to sassy to sex fiend in a surprisingly short amount of time. I guess it makes sense given the ending but I also like how this movie has such undertones of class distinction behind it… More
  The thing I enjoyed most was the evolution of Maribel Verdu's character. She goes from reluctant to sassy to sex fiend in a surprisingly short amount of time. I guess it makes sense given the ending but I also like how this movie has such undertones of class distinction behind it all. I like how the sex romp is not really a sex romp - it's an entrance into adulthood and all the emotional baggage it comes with. I like the coining of the word "charolastra" because it's such a typical, fabricated-confident, adolescent thing to do. I like how sexy Gael Garcia Bernal is. I like how serious situations turn funny by a single giggle. It's an ironic kind of funny.

• Randy T

  
  I put off watching this one for years and now, of course, I wonder why. What a funny, sometimes raunchy, sometimes inspiring Mexican road trip set against a backdrop of poverty and despair. <i>Y Tu Mama Tambien</i> is a sex-charged coming of age movie while, almost in… More
  I put off watching this one for years and now, of course, I wonder why. What a funny, sometimes raunchy, sometimes inspiring Mexican road trip set against a backdrop of poverty and despair. <i>Y Tu Mama Tambien</i> is a sex-charged coming of age movie while, almost in subtext, lending itself as an expose' on the expansive gap between the haves and the have-nots in modern Mexico.

• Lady D

  
  This film is a sexually charged adventure for two teens and an older woman. Whilst the focus of the film is of a sexual nature with fairly explicit scenes, there is also a more hidden serious point to the film too, but to be truthful, how many people are going to pick up on that?

• Ross C

  
  Two teenagers embarking on life's great adventure go on a road trip with a slightly more mature lady who has little left to live for. A touching story about living for the moment and making the most out of life that's a lot of fun Mexican style.

• Tsubaki S

  
  Bores and irritates the hell out of me every time i try to watch it. Most annoying narrator ever, most pointless "socio-political observations" i have seen in a film and most stupid dialogues i have heard since Kill Bill. If this is "the best" thing that mexican… More
  Bores and irritates the hell out of me every time i try to watch it. Most annoying narrator ever, most pointless "socio-political observations" i have seen in a film and most stupid dialogues i have heard since Kill Bill. If this is "the best" thing that mexican cinema can offer then things are worst than ever.

• Fernando Rafael Q

  
  Sexy, intelligent, funny, touching. Y Tu Mamá También follows one of the best scripts ever to hit the screen, coming from the incredible minds of the very talented Carlos and Alfonso Cuarón. The photography (by Cuarón's frequent collaborator, Emmanuel Lubezki) is beautiful. Gael… More
  Sexy, intelligent, funny, touching. Y Tu Mamá También follows one of the best scripts ever to hit the screen, coming from the incredible minds of the very talented Carlos and Alfonso Cuarón. The photography (by Cuarón's frequent collaborator, Emmanuel Lubezki) is beautiful. Gael García Bernal and Maribel Verdú give strong performances, and Daniel Gimenez-Cacho is the life of this film, as the narrator.

• Mark H

  
  Crude teen sex "comedy" masquerading as an art film. You know, one of those movies that presents graphic sex and raunchy language all in the name of being realistic and daring.

• Luke B

  
  Coming of age road movie. That's all you need to know here. Two best friends and an older woman go on a journey and end up learning a lot about love, sex and growing up. The film is no better than any other in the genre despite dealing with some pretty heavy political issues. It… More
  Coming of age road movie. That's all you need to know here. Two best friends and an older woman go on a journey and end up learning a lot about love, sex and growing up. The film is no better than any other in the genre despite dealing with some pretty heavy political issues. It does focus on our three heroes but I can't help but think they are fairly similar and flat creations. The narration is also over done explaining the fates of minor characters. This film is at its best when confronting social and class issues, but with so much sexual awakening to be done, it barely has time to address these.

• Pierluigi P

  
  Intense, provocative, funny, kinky and in the end unhappy rite of passage to maturity. The chemistry of the three leads is quite obvious, and is what makes it work so well. A fascinating road movie.

• Alice S

  
  Wow. Hot sex. Empowering female character. Deep friendship. Lovely story.

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