This movie didn’t really do anything for me until like the last 15 minutes? I mean I found it quite entertaining and interesting up til then, a road trip set in Mexico, being able to actually see much of the countryside, the people, the circumstance regarding class difference – all that appealed to me (and frankly, kept me watching)…both guys were behaving irritatingly adolescent throughout most of the movie, I couldn’t really sympathize with Luisa (although I could see why they were attracted to her…personally I didn’t think she was bad looking, and I guess the whole “mature woman” thing might have turned them on ^^)…

From the moment they arrived at the beach, however, I was really quite charmed by the “subtle” rise of tension, you know, you sorta realized that this movie was coming to an end, something ought to happen at this stage that will prevent this from turning into the “usual, insubstantial road movie”.

You’re right, almost all sex scenes looked horrendously animallike, ugly. I feel like it was the film’s intention to let you be repulsed by the characters and their actions (the boys’ immaturity in particular), and sort of redeem it all with the arrival at the beach, that threesome (which I thought was very beautiful and tender! Significantly so, as all the other ones were so crap, hahaha) and ultimately the “growing up” of the two guys. The realization that Luisa was mortally ill all the time really made me sort of go “Oh my god” (and made the 2nd viewing so much more…depressing!). I don’t know, but I found the transformation of the boys to be very realistic…the whole “maturing process” of the trip, with Luisa as a “catalyst” seemed very believable and authentic to me.

I really liked how Roger Ebert (a movie critic) put it:

“It is true, as some critics have observed, that “Y Tu Mama” is one of those movies where “after that summer, nothing would ever be the same again.” Yes, but it redefines “nothing.” ”

/2 cents