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Y Tu Mama Tambien [DVD]

4.5 out of 5 stars 1,351 ratings
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Genre Foreign
Format Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Anamorphic, DVD, Special Edition
Contributor Giselle Audirac, Silverio Palacios, Mayra Serbulo, Emilio Echevarra, Amaury Srbulo, Diego Luna, Marco Prez, Diana Bracho, Arturo Ros, Alfonso Cuarn, Mara Aura, Flor Eduarda Gurrola, Maribel Verd, Paloma Woolrich, Nathan Grinberg, Juan Carlos Remolina, Vernica Langer, Andrea Lpez, Daniel Gimnez Cacho, Gael Garca Bernal, Andrs Almeida, Carlos Cuarn, Liboria Rodrguez, Ana Lpez Mercado, Fernando Becerril, Marta Aura See more
Language Spanish
Runtime 1 hour and 45 minutes

Product Description

Julio and Tenoch are two teens ruled by raging hormonesand a mission to consume exotic substances. But one summer, the boys learn more about life than they bargain for when they set off on a wild, cross-country road trip with seductive, 28-year-old Luisa. Both boys taste forbidden fruit as Luisa schools them in the finer points of passion, but will their mutual desire for her destroy their friendship forever?

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Alfonso Cuarn, Carlos Cuarn
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Anamorphic, DVD, Special Edition
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 45 minutes
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Ana Lpez Mercado, Diego Luna, Gael Garca Bernal, Nathan Grinberg, Vernica Langer
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ MGM (Video & DVD)
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005JL57
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Best Sellers Rank: #60,540 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 1,351 ratings

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Customers praise this film as a masterpiece with a clever narrative style and believable character chemistry. The movie features beautiful countryside and beach scenes, and customers find it heartwarming and insightful, with one review noting it's about the fragility of human relationships. The erotic content receives positive feedback, with one customer describing it as "sexy socially aware film making." The dialogue quality receives mixed reactions, with several customers finding it difficult to follow.

97 customers mention "Movie quality"90 positive7 negative

Customers praise the movie's quality, describing it as a masterpiece, with one customer noting it as one of the best films of the early 2000s.

"This movie is the “classic in the making “ Great movie. Tastefully done." Read more

"...It's a good, fun road trip movie. It's real. It's sexy. It's just a good movie...." Read more

"...reading a lot instead of getting to always watch the picture, but great movie if you like foreign movies and raw emotion and accurate real life..." Read more

"It's a great film with superb acting from two young very talented actors...." Read more

41 customers mention "Story quality"31 positive10 negative

Customers appreciate the movie's engaging story and clever narrative style, with one customer describing it as a beautiful movie about the pathways of life.

"...Y Tu Mama Tambien is charming, funny, sexy, heartwarming, sad, and nostalgic...." Read more

"...Good story and enjoyable eroticism--it feels more like a docudrama than a film. There's much more to this picture than the sex. I recommend it!" Read more

"It was ok. Different story. Different ending than you expect." Read more

"...Maybe it's a Mexican thing about woman. The entire story was not that exciting, but individual conversation was quite delicious...." Read more

22 customers mention "Acting quality"22 positive0 negative

Customers praise the acting in the movie, particularly noting the great on-screen chemistry among the three main characters.

"...At least that what's what I got out of it. Great acting and dialogue. No regrets in buying it." Read more

"Likeable characters. Range of emotions from raw and unrefined to thoughtfully fun. Seems 70's style, no seatbelts used in car. Kind of dark and raw...." Read more

"It's a great film with superb acting from two young very talented actors...." Read more

"Good acting, good plot, good film, PAC" Read more

22 customers mention "Erotic content"22 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the erotic content of the film, describing it as sexy and very sensual, with one customer noting its socially aware approach.

"...Maribel Verdú, however, is truly an amazing actress. Beautiful, subtle, alternately nonchalant and highly emotional...." Read more

"...It's a good, fun road trip movie. It's real. It's sexy. It's just a good movie...." Read more

"one of the most intelligent films i have ever seen. very sexy and funny, too...." Read more

"...gorgeous cinematography, lovable characters and overall a unique, beautiful and humane cinematic experience." Read more

22 customers mention "Sex scenes"19 positive3 negative

Customers appreciate the movie's sex scenes, describing them as enjoyable and realistic, with one customer noting they are not offensive.

"...Y Tu Mama Tambien is charming, funny, sexy, heartwarming, sad, and nostalgic...." Read more

"...As I will never forget "Y Tu Mama Tambien". Part teenage sex comedy, part slice of life, part wonderful delve into the deeper sides of life, somehow..." Read more

"...I loved every second of the Spanish language film in it's erotic power, it's flawless screenplay, and it's honest nature in dealing with human..." Read more

"...There is a lot of discussion about sex, a fair amount of sex scenes (graphic and tender at the same time), and this just feels honest...." Read more

17 customers mention "Emotional content"17 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the movie's emotional content, finding it thoughtful, heartwarming, and insightful, with one customer highlighting its exploration of the fragility of human relationships.

"...Beautiful, subtle, alternately nonchalant and highly emotional...." Read more

"...erotic power, it's flawless screenplay, and it's honest nature in dealing with human connection...." Read more

"...it is its real philosophy, and its genuine attitude towards life which make the movie strong..." Read more

"...manages to fill in a travelogue tha adds to the realism and poignancy of the movie and gives the viewer that feeling of almost being a participant..." Read more

15 customers mention "Cinematography"15 positive0 negative

Customers praise the movie's cinematography, highlighting its beautiful countryside and beaches, with one customer noting how the director beautifully captured the background.

"...version, supervised by the cinematographer Lubezki, is completely upgraded visually, with richer more saturated color, and even a 2k resolution for..." Read more

"...Beautiful cinematography of Mexico...." Read more

"...The cinematic experience is an astonishing journey through dangers and choices." Read more

"...She has a fabulous figure. The dialogue in the car & in the café was terrific." Read more

17 customers mention "Dialogue quality"9 positive8 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the movie's dialogue, with several finding it difficult to follow.

"...important and far less discussed, there is a new upgraded English translation to the subtitles. The difference is huge...." Read more

"...of Mexican life only to replace it with a contrived and poorly concieved overall commentary about the dangers and necessities of human pleasures and..." Read more

"...Spoken in Spanish, subtitled in English, Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN is riveting entertainment...." Read more

"The movie's audio quality was very poor, the dialogue was very difficult to follow, I speak fluent Spanish and I still needed to use the subtitles..." Read more

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This review is for the product itself, not the movie. The packaging on this Blu-ray is great and better than pictured. It comes with a small booklet containing two introductions and biographies by the director. (A nice addition for fans of the movie who want to know more about the backstory of characters)
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2025
    I was skeptical when I read the review but for some reason, I went ahead and bought it. I am super critical of movies these days but this one did not disappoint.
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2025
    good movie
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2003
    I've seen this film twice now and can say it improves with re-viewing. But in looking through some of the other customer reviews, I was amazed at how many who complained about lack of plot or purpose completely missed major thematic points being flagged by the creators. There's a lot going on in this road trip/coming-of-age film if you watch and listen carefully.
    No writer can call a beach The Mouth of Heaven (which is where the film's lead trio are driving to) without signaling, practically with flares, that he is making a thematic point. Consider how this one gets used: The two boys think they've just made up the name to con Luisa--they've no idea where they're headed. It later turns out that a beach called Mouth of Heaven actually does exist, and they are near it. In the end, only Luisa goes to it; the boys never see it.
    Backtrack for clues as to why the boys never see the Mouth of Heaven: For all their sex- and drugs-obsessed horseplay, they are not social equals. One comes from a privileged political family (part of the PRI ruling party in Mexico, now temporarily out of the presidency thanks to Vicente Fox) and the other, as he is unkindly reminded, is "peasant trash." They go to the same high school, but their post-graduation futures are going to be very different and that is what is really coming up on the horizon for them--not a celestial beach where they can honestly be friends forever.
    All through the boys' juvenile dialog, and highlighted in the omniscient voiceover, are details that point out not only how the pair aren't similar, but also how much they've already internalized the social attitudes that will inevitably pull their friendship apart. The poorer one lights matches in his friend's bathroom after he uses it; the richer one uses his foot to raise the toilet seat when he visits the other one's house. As Luisa comes to discern, their relationship, while often affectionate and close, is mostly a sham and riddled with unspoken secrets and class-derived mistrusts.
    Throughout the film, the creators take off on sidetracks to look at various aspects of Mexican life and culture. The film is clearly slanted toward non-Mexican audiences, because much of what they show is information to help outsiders understand the social realities facing these young men. Remember that the middle-class is much smaller in Mexico than in the US or Europe, so necessarily these two boys, while exuberantly individual, are also representing the largely dichotomized Mexican society in the way they inter-relate and yet remain separate and closed off. (Luisa, importantly, is Spanish, so she shares our view as an outsider; it is her job to help us uncover what is awry with this pair.)
    Try looking at the film from these deeper and more symbolic viewpoints and I think many viewers will find the creators have given their audience a lot to think about during the film, and many reasons to care about what happens to the protagonists. The sad last scene isn't just a gathering up of plotlines, for the news about Luisa IS anti-climactic for us. The emotional punch is in watching the boys as they finally get an inkling of what Luisa was trying to tell them about themselves on that trip, and then push the realization away.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2003
    Y Tu Mama Tambien is a road movie directed by Alfonso Cuaron (Great Expectations). Set in Mexico we are introduced to two 17 year old boys having sex with their girlfriends. The girlfriends are about to leave for a trip to Italy so they are looking to get just a little bit more fun in before the trip. They leave, and Tenoch and Julio are left to find their own entertainments. They are part of Mexico's upper middle class and while at a party (thrown by one of their parents), they meet an older woman (in her late twenties). Not expecting her to accept, they invite Louisa(her) to a fictitious beach called 'Heaven's Mouth'. After learning of her husband's infidelity, Louisa takes the trip. Tenoch and Julio pretend they know where they are going and head towards a beach they hope will really be there when they get there. Before reaching the beach, the two have sex with the married woman, Louisa which resulted in fights during the travel time in the car. They later halt the fight and begged her to get back to the car as they agreed to listen to what she says and what she wants them to do......
    This is a very sexual film, from the opening scenes to the denoument. There is a lot of discussion about sex, a fair amount of sex scenes (graphic and tender at the same time), and this just feels honest. We are not given nudity for the sake of nudity because in this film it feels essential to the ability to tell the story. The camera shows, but doesn't linger. There is also a gay act between the two boys, at almost 3/4 of the movie, after both were drunk. When they found out that they slept together on the same bed the next morning, they ran out of the house and vomitted.
    The road trip and the development of the characters are extremely well done and the film rises well above the concept of the source material. We see Tenoch and Julio begin to grow up and grow into the men they will likely become. They begin the movie very immature and only looking for sex, drugs, and hanging with their friends. This movie shows the first steps beyond their childhood. Y Tu Mama Tambien could have easily become a Mexican version of American Pie or Road Trip, but this is much, much better. Highly recommended with a warning of a lot of sex(inclusive of one scene on masturbation near the bank of swimming pool where the 'things' which was fired out drop into the pool water) and nudity.
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  • Steve
    5.0 out of 5 stars Mexican Delight
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 18, 2002
    Two Mexican lads travel, with an older woman, in an old estate car, to a beach that doesn't actually exist. Well, it doesn't sound much. In fact this film is by turns hilarious and moving; no surprise it has gained quite a following. The three main characters (all well played) are likeable and although the spoken language is Spanish (there are English subtitles), it doesn't really matter at all. Much of the attraction of the film is visual; it is beautifully photographed on location in Mexico. There are quite a number of explicit sex scenes, but these are entirely natural and part of the story. They are often amusing too.
    The presentation on DVD is outstanding. Picture quality is excellent with rich colours and a sharp image. Stereo sound (I don't have surround) is atmospheric and used well. There is an 11 minute short film by the director of the main item. It is amusing. There is also a version of the film for under 17's. This is very amusing, if a little short. There are music tracks, a making of documentary, and numerous other extras-all enjoyable. Also current copies have a short book detailing the early lives of our heroes.
    Good humour, sun, sea and lots of sex. The perfect DVD for dark Autumn nights.
  • iñaki altuna uribe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Era exactamente lo que yo deseaba
    Reviewed in Spain on October 19, 2021
    Quería tener el DVD original de esta película desde hace mucho
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Happy
    Reviewed in Canada on June 24, 2025
    Great used item
  • Sonja
    5.0 out of 5 stars kleine Perle unter den Filmen
    Reviewed in Germany on February 6, 2019
    gute Story und Schauspieler... man merkt, dass ein Meister am Werk war
  • francesco
    5.0 out of 5 stars La semplice complessità della crescita
    Reviewed in Italy on November 24, 2019
    Consegnato in tempo e in ottime condizioni

    Questo non è un film per tutti, o perlomeno non si presenta così ad una prima impressione

    Può essere estraniante per via di come tratta i suoi argomenti, o per la peculiare regia, ma è proprio tutto ciò a valorizzarlo interamente.
    Un piccolo racconto di formazione, in cui due amici scoprono molto di più riguardo quelle cose che avevano sempre preso come un frivolo svago, e del loro intrinseco rapporto con una donna che sconvolgerà appieno le loro vite, riuscendo però in questo anche ad offrire un grande aiuto

    Un film che nonostante tutto riuscirà a colpire e a portare ad interessanti considerazioni sulla crescita, mai in modo petulante o pesante, ma neanche troppo leggero o semplice