Review – Y Tu Mama Tambien

Here we have an interesting blend of Mexican art movie and Friday After Dark soft-core porn. When it’s being artistic, this is a fairly good production. I particularly liked the pauses the tale takes every once in awhile to allow an omniscient narrator to fill us in on a character’s back story or other colorful-yet-superfluous trivia. The main story itself is peppered with quirky moments that serve to keep things reasonably entertaining. The cinematographer also manages to make good use of the landscapes. On the other hand, this tale of two teenage boys off to an isolated beach with an attractive, slightly older woman absolutely drips with immature sexuality. Sex is a theme or subtext almost the whole way through, and in a few places the portrayal of same is quite graphic. Overall it seems like the audience that might enjoy this the most – male adolescents – may be excluded by sex a little to graphic for their parents’ taste and/or the need for non-Spanish-speakers to read the subtitles. Mildly amusing