Rating: 
Summary: Disappointed
Review: This movie was hyped by the US press as a blockbuster among foreign films. Boy was I disappointed! The two main characters, Julio and Tenoch, are spoiled brats of the Mexican upper class. They meet Luisa, a beautiful lady with an aloof husband, and con her into taking a road trip with them. They then bicker, bully and tease each other incessantly, until both Luisa and you, the viewer want to pummel them. When they do kiss and make up for a threesome, the boys are more into each other than they are Luisa. But I was genuinely sad at the film's end. Luisa's fate is a cruel blow. If you like annoying, homoerotic protagonists, this is the film for you.
Rating: 
Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: You've got a gorgeous woman who has caught her husband cheating and wants to get revenge by going off with these two boys in their late teens -- and she wants to
have sex with both of them, wants to have a wild, romping, revenge filled weekend with these two boys -- should be good, right? Wrong. The two guys can't get it together -- they're too busy being annoying. Finally, she takes control, but in two very brief secenes, each of them proves sexually "inept." And that's the nice way to put it. This is not sexy. This is not "steamy." These boys are annoying. They annoy her [and us] so much, she gives up on her orginal goal. She ends up telling them to be quiet and stop annoying her. In a final scene, when she gives them another chance, this time at a threesome, they are more interested [and adept] in kissing each other -- end of scene -- end of movie. This is the movie, folks.
Rating:
Summary: Overrated Trash from South of the Border
Review: This is a silly teen sex movie that gets high ratings because it has subtitles and depicts Mexican peasants. The story contains just about every cliche that one can think of, and the acting is bad too. Think of Weird Science set in the Mexican outback.
Rating: 
Summary: enjoyable, and well above average, but not all that special
Review: From all the acclaim this film got outside of its native land, you'd think this would be some stirring masterpiece.In truth, I did enjoy this film quite a bit, and perhaps would've enjoyed it even more if it hadn't been so hyped up.It is well acted, and has a nice organic feel to it.It is lightly funny, and almost always engaging.It features lush views of mexican culture, and natural landscapes.That said, this movie doesn't really have much to offer on an emotional or mental level.Two lusty 18 year old guys take along a sexy older women on a road trip. Sex is handled with nowhere near the taste and tenderness as it was in the 2001 superb Spanish film, Sex and Lucia. That said, I don't believe that this (...) was supposed to be tender or anything.But the wild romps really didn't add any sort of feeling or effect to the film, and throughout, I kind of got the feeling that the director wanted to show how sensually fearless he and his cast could be. I feel that if this movie wasn't hyped up so much, I would've taken it for what it was, and enjoyed it: a light,entertaining, and well-filmed road movie thats a good weekend movie to watch in bed, but not much else.
Rating: 
Summary: Erotic Existentialism
Review: I didn't know erotic existentialism existed, yet somehow director Alfonso Cuaron found a way to combine the plight of the human condition with steamy scenes that will melt your beer mug in his film Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN. Seventeen-year-old pals Tenoch and Julio are hormone-driven, annoying boys with too much time on their hands. When by chance at a wedding they meet the wife of Tenoch's cousin, a much older woman named Luisa (played exquisitely by a hauntingly beautiful Maribel Verdu), the stage is set for a powerful coming-of-age story, as the boys ask their new friend to accompany them to a secluded beach. Once Luisa consents, and the road trip begins, this film powerfully, and at times humorously, explores the facade of resisted temptations--of a friendship put to the test. . .of a friendship that might be more than just a friendship. Intertwined throughout the compelling cinematography, steamy erotica, and adolescent nonsense is a dark element of fatalistic existentialism--an element in the form of a narrator--that serves to remind the viewer this is no lightweight "American Pie" spoof. There are times when the dialogue cuts away and the narrator takes over; the somber voice tells stories of tragedy and suffering, past and present, on the part of people we will never get to know--people who are mentioned only because of their proximity to the main characters. Powerful, powerful stuff. As much as I liked the film, I did have a few problems. The two teenagers at times were so irritating I kept wanting to tell them to go to their rooms. We learn so much about Luisa's background via the narrator, but learn very little about why she made the choices she did late in the film--especially given the immaturity of her companions. And there's a tragedy at the end that comes out of nowhere. . .but is consistent with the bleak undercurrent of the film. Spoken in Spanish, subtitled in English, Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN is riveting entertainment. The DVD contains a short feature entitled "Me la debes," which takes infidelity to a whole new level, and ultimately proves it's a small world, after all. Due to the explicit materials, this DVD is for adults only. Make sure your heart medication is up to date before viewing.
--D. Mikels
Rating:
Summary: I don't understand the hype.
Review: Having heard great things about this movie, and being generally open to foreign movies, I was looking forward to it quite a bit. Sadly, I was very disappointed. As my wife put it, this movie is a cross between an Italian sex comedy and a 70s-vintage German drama. The bad parts of Italian sex comedy and 70s-vintage German drama. As a character study with very little plot, it fails; the boys are self-absorbed, spoiled and unlikeable, and the older woman they covet is a cipher who we never really get to know, despite the endless talking. She is just the McGuffin, something for the boys to lust after and fight about and then find themselves. I guess they found themselves; the movie just sputters to a halt and I never felt like we had any closure. For this movie to work, you have to care about the characters, and I just never got to the point where I cared about them at all. Indeed, to echo another reviewer, when they turned down a dirt road when they werelost, I found myself hoping they would ride into an ambush just so the movie would be over. In that sense, I cared about them in a negative way, but I don't think that's what the movie was shooting for. I didn't object to the sex or the nudity. Indeed, by and large, it was anything but erotic. I suspect it was a more realistic depiction of young adult sex than what we see in Hollywood movies, and as such if the MPAA ever allowed such scenes in American films, young women would never have sex again. I did object to the fact that there wasn't a single bodily fluid we didn't get to see. Be forewarned: to borrow a phrase from Seinfeld, this is a pee party. The best part of this DVD is the 12-minute short film (apparently a student film of the director's) in the Special Features. This film is a riot, and after seeing it I can understand how the director got funding for this movie. Cuaron shows real promise as a director. I hope he tries again with a screenplay that is less of a downer and has more of a plot. Y Tu Mama Tambien has a number of good things about it, which is why I didn't give it one star. The performances are outstanding, and the technical aspects of the production (aside from the audio) are flawless. As for the audio, the only problem (and it's jarring) is the abrupt audio cut every time we switch from the action to the narrator. And we switch to the narrator a lot. I thought something was wrong with the disc the first time it happened, as we went from a high audio level to zero for a few seconds before the narrator started talking. A disappointment.
Rating:
Summary: BAD! Not deep enough for meaning, not enough sex for porn.
Review: (...) Here is what you really get. Two dislikable and crude boys on a road trip with an woman in a bad relationship and running away from life's troubles. Sex in a book or movie is used to bring about changes in the individuals involved, but such is not the case here. The boys are shown making love to their girl friends prior to the gilrs leaving on vacation and then the boys head out on this trip after a chance meeting with the woman at a wedding. The sex in the first five minutes is the most explicit of the movie and there is no fully frontal female nudity after this point. The boys are explicitly shown time and again. The homosexual activity between them totally turned us off. The lack of imaginative plot would be excusable in a movie that is a feeble front for porn, but this movie fails to deliever even on that level. In short a cast of distasteful people, having sex in some distasteful locations, never learning, never growing, never serving any purpose and never even seeming to find any deeper meaning in the sexual act apart from physical pleasure. A waste of time and money. If you feel you must rent it.
Rating: 
Summary: Remember When?
Review: This is an excellent film. It is a cultural, honest, (...)funny and compassionate film. Puts a perspective on living now versus waiting for the perfect time to live your life. It is not simplistic and offers the viewer a chance to remember when you were coming of age. A beautiful film that I won't forget.
Rating:
Summary: Not moving enough for a character study, too boring for porn
Review: With all the hype about this film I thought it might be that rare thoughtful adult film, but our unrated copy was of barely recognized characters who were distasteful in the extreme. The boys are rude and crude with only one thing on their minds and the opeing sex scenes are needlessly explict and that is about where any significant explicitness ends. Yes the film contains nudity, but much more male than female. The homesexual contact between the boys was a complete turn off, for us at least and something not hinted at in the wonderful reviews we had seen. I short it is a slezzy, explotation film pretending to be a thoughtful character/coming of age story. It delievers none of the above, being too tame for those looking for sex and too sexually focused for those seeking character. It was so bad that by the time they swam in the ocean I was hoping they would drown just so the movie would end. Sorry I wasted time on it!
Rating:
Summary: A Bit Disappointing.
Review: After seeing Dirty Dancing Havana Nights I was so excited to see another film with the actor Diego Luna in it so, I went out and rented this film. The story doesn't have a very strong plot line and all the sex in this film is just unnecessary. I watched the rated edition and even that was just over the top. Although, I did love the fact that the film was in another language because the spoken language in this film is absolutely beautiful. To give the actors credit, they did do a good job with the characters they played. I do recommend seeing this film to those who are interested, but it just wasn't my cup of tea.
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