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Y Tu Mamá También

Universal acclaim
Based on 35 critic reviews
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Based on 84 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
Alfonso Cuarón
Carlos Cuarón
Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 15, 2002
DVD: October 22, 2002
Running Time: 105 minutes, Color
Origin: Mexico / USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Diana Bracho, Emilio Echevarría, Ana López Mercado, María Aura, and Andrés Almeida
Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, two rich teenagers meet an exotic older woman at a wedding and end up on a road trip together.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Can be taken on many levels, and that's why it works so completely.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
A great, lusty movie in the tradition of Bertrand Blier's "Going Places."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
Raunchy, smart, ebullient, melancholy, insightful, surprising, funny, frank and sexy as all get-out.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
A vivid, thoughtful, unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Sad, funny, sexy, and altogether marvelous.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
The funniest and most emotionally charged erotic road movie since Bertrand Blier's "Going Places."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
In the wild and consistently surprising Y Tu Mamá También, anything isn't the half of it.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
If this sounds like an old-fashioned sex comedy, it is -- sexy, for sure, and funny, in wild spurts.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
It's often diverting and occasionally funny, but it's ultimately inconsequential.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Bradley Gibson
The story is set in real world Mexico, not a cleaned-up movie world simulacrum.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Too much repetition and an unconvincing finale take a toll on the film's overall effectiveness.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 84 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Sam S. gave it a10:
Very good film. Better than I thought it would be. Storyline is excellent.
Tye N. gave it a10:
This is an excellent film and, like Maria Full of Grace, is almost too real in it's subject. The actors, along with the excellent script, convey these characters and these situations with such authenticity it's almost a documentary. Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna are great, but Maribel Verdu is fantastic as the glue that holds the film together. Her performance is stunning. Alfonso Cuaron's direction is amazing, and this film is most definitely a must see.
Neal gave it a10:
Pure captivation!!!
tony s. gave it a10:
Excellent film. spontaneous acting, fun and riveting.
Dave S. gave it a10:
My favourite movie of all time. The writing is second to none, and Maribel Verdu's performance is a revelation.
Dave C. gave it a9:
The relationship between the two male protagonists is often insipid and Cuaron fails to make them sympathetic to the audience and muster up enough quite tha mount of homoerotic tension it appears he is opting for. Leaving that aside however, Y Tu Mama Tambien is a beautiful film and in spite the obvious of nouvelle vague influences and jump-cuts, every scene has an amazingly convincing and natural fluidity to it. Difficult not to recommend.
August G. gave it a0:
You call this a movie? It's hardcore/softcore porn with a plot. If the director added a few more sex scenes this movie would've premiered on the Spice Channel. The director might as well said "We're gonna film two Mexican boys getting their brains screwed out by a 28 year old harlot as they traypse across Mexico in search of a beach that doesn't even exist." which is wrong from the get go. If I want to entertain myself with something like this nature I'd read Madame Bovary than watch this sexed up piece of crap.
