Y Tu Mama Tambien: Filth or Fantastic?

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Mexican movie with plenty of full frontal nudity, sex, rubbish AOR music on the soundtrack. Did you like it cos I thought it was great. Best film I've seen this year. FInally a road movie that worked for me.

― Pete, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cor i dunno ptee, but i wanted to see it and now i want to see it even MORE!!

― katie, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What's this "or" shit?

― Tom, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Movie with some real problems. The central story is dull as paste and has been so many times before that it just feel cliche from the get go (plus the two of the main characters--the boys--are ridiculously uninteresting--and the third--the woman--is marginalized and unexplored). That said, the vision of Mexico itself is fantastic moving from the uber-rich to the uber-poor. I wished that Mexico had been more of the movie, not the crap threesome garbage.

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought Mexico was the movie - and I disagree that the boys were uninteresting both as characters and as what they represent (bored upper middle class, bored lower middle class). The road movie framework is pretty much as old as cinema (older if you take the picaresque novel) but it is the way these characters then actually grow from being self satisfied wankers (literally) to adults.

It possible also helped that their route from Mexico City to the coast was pretty much identical to the one I followed towo years ago.

― Pete, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1) I agree these guys were just class symbols, but I still had to watch them for an hour and a half. Howzabout a symbol that isn't boring as fuck and reprehensible to boot.

2) I fail to see the growth at the end of the movie. The final scene is just a tack on so the director can reveal the BIG shocking secret (which is supposed to explain why this semi-intelligent woman would bother hanging out with these two, but mostly just annoyed the folk I saw the movie with--obvious, trite, contrived again).

3) The movie and their trek is gorgeous looking.

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yo no conosco tu madre, pero si tienes un hermano menor, que es lindo, con pelo negro, yo no tengo nigun problema.

― Queen G-bah Humbug, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Queen G is overcome with feelings of LUST. Alas, I only have a younger sister, who does not match this description.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no hay problemas ned, puedo venderla para diez pesos...

Que? Es demasiado? Bueno, ocho porque sos gringo.

― Queen G, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

This just came out on video/dvd so I thought I'd try to revive the thread. I watched most of it last night, but haven't finished it yet. It's pretty entertaining so far, albeit disturbing at parts. But anyway, do guys ever jerk off together like that swimming pool scene? Hit each other with towels naked? Or only gay guys?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

you should see a spanish movie called 'krampack'. all about young boys jerking together and the way they lose their friendship when they start dating girls.
great soundtrack, too.

― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

it was great!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes boys have masturbation contests. Strangely the ones that happened with my friends were to see who could cum the fastest.

$20 says this is remade as an American movie and it will be awful. Somehow the boys being Mexican makes them that much more interesting. As a U.S. flick it would turn into American Pie meets Kids. Which would be terrible.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

No, boys don't have masturbation contests. Or at least, only wankers do.

The ending of Y Tu Mama Tambien was unbelievably lame. It wasn't so much that the secret being revealed itself was lame, it was just the way it was done.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Perhaps the next Harry Potter will have wanking contests, since that's the next movie Cuaron is directing. Magical wanking.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh God - Geoff to thread.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Wands being waved in the air, around and about.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, full-frontal quidditch ahoy. What thought process made them think Cuaron would be an ideal choice of director for HP? It's not obvious to me.

I liked 95% of "Y tu mama..." but I do agree with Nick's observations.

I've never taken part in any wanking contests, nor do I know anyone who has. Which makes me think soggy biscuit is an urban myth.

― Tag, Wednesday, 23 October 2002 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

He directed "A Little Princess" and "Great Expectations" before Yer Ma. Both of them were fairly straightforward and well-done, and the first was a

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 24 October 2002 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

grumble...

was a kids film.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 24 October 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

I hated it, watched it last night and didn't think it lived up to its hype. Everyone I know, "Oh you must see Y Tu Mama Tambien". I saw it, i got bored fast. I have never known any boys who beat off together. I wish they all drowned in the water at Heavens Mouth. That would have made it much better.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes it sucked, NO ONE has threesomes like THAT.

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

especially those two fuckin tools. if Chuy (the fisherman) got involved and smacked the bitch with a trout that would have made the movie.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

twenty years pass...

GGB ... still adorable:

✨ Gael García Bernal’s Closet Picks ✨ The award-winning actor & producer—whose new film CASSANDRO is now streaming on @primevideo—discusses his work in Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIEN, shares his love for the pleasures of PURPLE NOON, praises the brilliance of Buñuel, and more! @GaelGarciaB pic.twitter.com/7um99GHqaE
— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) January 3, 2024

― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 17:34 (one year ago)

― brimstead, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 18:50 (one year ago)

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