Y Tu Mamá También

Name: Y Tu Mamá También
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: March 15, 2002
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 88
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Maribel Verdú

2002

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IFC | Release Date: March 15, 2002 | R

Starring: Gael García Bernal, Maribel Verdú

Summary: Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, two teenagers meet an exotic older woman at a wedding, and they embark on a road trip together.

Director: Alfonso Cuarón

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 106 min

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100

Mark Caro

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

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Michael Sragow

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

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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

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

Jami Bernard

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

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.

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

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SamS.

Jun 13, 2007

Very good film. Better than I thought it would be. Storyline is excellent.

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DaveS.

Jan 16, 2006

My favourite movie of all time. The writing is second to none, and Maribel Verdu's performance is a revelation.

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Neal

May 26, 2006

Pure captivation!!!

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BladeLover2049

Aug 22, 2018

A new way of telling two periods of Mexico: the future of a tyranny at the beginning of the new millennium, and a free interpretation of the Spanish conquest. The film takes us along roads of life, where each path leads us to a destination that we will not know how to be the same again.A new way of telling two periods of Mexico: the future of a tyranny at the beginning of the new millennium, and a free interpretation of the Spanish conquest. The film takes us along roads of life, where each path leads us to a destination that we will not know how to be the same again. Places where the hidden before our eyes is revealed, and where you can also find what we have always sought ... just need to get lost and find the way.… Expand

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Aug 24, 2011

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amheretojudge

Feb 21, 2019

Hitchhiking On Demand.

Y Tu Mama Tambien Cuaron's language is so smart that it is practically silly. His quest for the philosophical challenges that life and death pins down in a moment, comes involuntarily. His vision so pure in its reach that he is basically crafting himself on screen,Hitchhiking On Demand.

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Cuaron's language is so smart that it is practically silly. His quest for the philosophical challenges that life and death pins down in a moment, comes involuntarily. His vision so pure in its reach that he is basically crafting himself on screen, there is a version of him, a piece of him residing on the screen that ignites the forest fire. The conversations between these more than three dimensional characters doesn't seem scripted at all. There is no cinematic arc or an antic in here, maybe that's his home run. His words are simple, easy and adaptive, he starts of smooth and takes everything for granted, all a tomfoolery and yet perfectly balanced on the concept it explores.

He uses his frame wisely, like when Luisa played by Maribel Verd confronts her husband on a phone, in the background Julio (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna) are goofing around. Declining to compromise the writing in order to shift the tone into serious hard facts, the co-writer and director, Alfonso Cuaron wisely chooses to pour it all on the narrator, which steals some of the best moments of the film like when it describes a history of the location or the future trajectory of the characters, it helps him project the intensity of that current moment.

Aforementioned, the cast has done an amazing work especially all the long one take shots where there is a lot of content to cover up and is done effortlessly. The Cuaron brothers that wrote this script together has beautifully painted the equation of the brotherhood with a hint of silliness of a young teenage mentality that we all can resonate with easily. Y Tu Mama Tambien works only for its rigid nature of not surrendering itself to the corrupt cinematic aspects, it grows less and less cinema-alike and feels more and more cinematic.… Expand

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AugustG.

Dec 30, 2005

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 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.… Expand

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