Y Tu Mamá También

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

One of those movies where "after that summer, nothing would ever be the same again." Yes, but it redefines "nothing."

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

That rare thing, a Hollywood teen flick transfigured into something like pubescent scripture: In the beginning, there was lust; in the end, there is knowledge.

USA Today Claudia Puig

Can be taken on many levels, and that's why it works so completely.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

A great, lusty movie in the tradition of Bertrand Blier's "Going Places."

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Echoes the unmistakable freshness and excitement of the Nouvelle Vague, the sense of joy in being alive and making movies, that made those works distinctive and unforgettable.

San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer

Frank, funny and true as "Ghost World."

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Part travelogue, part road picture, part meditation on class, mortality and intimacy, this extraordinary little movie might be the perfect harbinger of summer, as astute as it is steamy.

Chicago Tribune Mark Caro

Raunchy, smart, ebullient, melancholy, insightful, surprising, funny, frank and sexy as all get-out.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

Teems with pot smoke, body parts and profane outbursts -- you ride a giggly wave throughout, jokes and turn-ons and shocking sights alternating in buoyant fashion.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Cuaron's hot-blooded, haunting and wildly erotic film revels in the pleasures of the flesh without losing touch with thought and feeling.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

A vivid, thoughtful, unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.

Salon.com Charles Taylor

One of the most joyous movies I've ever seen, and one of the handful of great erotic films the movies have given us.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

There are so many good things to say about this film it's hard to find a statement that really nails it. Perhaps we can leave at this: Y Tu Mama Tambien is originality writ large.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Sad, funny, sexy, and altogether marvelous.

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Give yourself away to this movie and you'll be glad you did.

Slate David Edelstein

It's the way Cuarón demonstrates how a simple teen comedy can suddenly blossom into a study of sexual mores, a Mexican political allegory, a song of lamentation -- and still be breezy and funny and sexy as hell.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

A genuine rarity: a sex comedy with brains.

The New York Times A.O. Scott

Director Alfonso Cuarón works with a quicksilver fluidity, and the movie is fast, funny, unafraid of sexuality and finally devastating.

New York Magazine Peter Rainer

The funniest and most emotionally charged erotic road movie since Bertrand Blier's "Going Places."

Newsweek David Ansen

The eroticism in Cuaron’s road movie (which broke all box-office records in Mexico) is the real deal: tactile, sexy, psychologically charged.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Unabashedly frank in its depiction of sex -- too frank, probably, for more discreet viewers -- but it's never exploitive or seedy.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Like watching an American teen-sex comedy through a glass darkly.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

"You're so lucky to live in Mexico," Luisa says. "Look at it -- it breathes with life." So does Y Tu Mama Tambien, both the pant of passion and shuddering sigh of regret.

Boston Globe Jonathan Perry

Sensual, funny, and moving film.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

In the wild and consistently surprising Y Tu Mamá También, anything isn't the half of it.

Time Richard Corliss

If this sounds like an old-fashioned sex comedy, it is -- sexy, for sure, and funny, in wild spurts.

New Times (L.A.) Bill Gallo

In elevating bawdy teen farce to political metaphor without squeezing the fun out, Alfonso Cuarón has pulled off a nice little miracle.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

Director Alfonso Cuaron ("A Little Princess") gets vivid, convincing performances from a fine cast, and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace.

The New Yorker Anthony Lane

There is plenty to inflame in this picture and nothing to corrupt. [18 Mar 2002. p.152]

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

For what could easily have been a slickly vulgar variation on "American Pie" or "Porky's", this libidinous comedy explores some unusually complicated territory, and benefits greatly from Verdú's unpredictable performance as Luisa.

Village Voice J. Hoberman

It has the charm of the original American road movies, feasting on the gorgeous, ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

It's often diverting and occasionally funny, but it's ultimately inconsequential.

Film Threat Bradley Gibson

The story is set in real world Mexico, not a cleaned-up movie world simulacrum.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Too much repetition and an unconvincing finale take a toll on the film's overall effectiveness.

Variety Leonardo Garcia Tsao

The film's biggest limitation is its oversexed, underdeveloped male duo. Playing like a south-of-the-border version of Beavis and Butt-head, the teenagers have but one thought in their heads.