Well, this movie had no plot, no rhythm, and never could decide whether it wanted to be an absurd caricature of the world of soccer or a serious drama, and often went from one genre to another many times within a single scene, without any warning whatsoever but a cheesy and poorly placed music cue.
¿Also, do you know how they say Soccer is unfilmable? Well Cuarón finds the perfect way of addressing this issue: by almost not showing the game at all. This hardly qualifies as a soccer picture.
Also, why i Said it was malicious: first of all, the generic "ranchero" accent Gael and Diego use... so, you filmmakers really think all poor people from small towns in the province are this Dumb? Every laugh they get from the audience comes from the fact that this is "stupid small town people" and almost never from the cleverness of the script or the logic within the plot, which, as I said before, is nonexistent. El Rudo y el Cursi seem to get punished at the end of the movie for no reason at all but for having achieved success playing football, as if that was a bad thing. Also, by having a narcotraficante marring the sister of the two main characters and saving the family from complete ruin with his dirty power and money in the process, they perpetuate the myth that narcotrafico helps Mexico moving forward... It Doesn't.
The Good Things: The Chemistry between the two protagonists, this guys can act without a script, just being the buddies they are.
The Cinematography, is great.
The attack they do on Jorge Vergara's Omnilife, showing how he takes advantage of his employees.
Just to finish: Cuarón, recently, slammed the Mexican movie critics by calling them unprepared and jealous of the Mexicans that succeed, because they almost universally slammed his movie first. He has a point, but also the dumb, unprepared, jealous critics who called his movie bad in the first place.
¿Also, do you know how they say Soccer is unfilmable? Well Cuarón finds the perfect way of addressing this issue: by almost not showing the game at all. This hardly qualifies as a soccer picture.
Also, why i Said it was malicious: first of all, the generic "ranchero" accent Gael and Diego use... so, you filmmakers really think all poor people from small towns in the province are this Dumb? Every laugh they get from the audience comes from the fact that this is "stupid small town people" and almost never from the cleverness of the script or the logic within the plot, which, as I said before, is nonexistent. El Rudo y el Cursi seem to get punished at the end of the movie for no reason at all but for having achieved success playing football, as if that was a bad thing. Also, by having a narcotraficante marring the sister of the two main characters and saving the family from complete ruin with his dirty power and money in the process, they perpetuate the myth that narcotrafico helps Mexico moving forward... It Doesn't.
The Good Things: The Chemistry between the two protagonists, this guys can act without a script, just being the buddies they are.
The Cinematography, is great.
The attack they do on Jorge Vergara's Omnilife, showing how he takes advantage of his employees.
Just to finish: Cuarón, recently, slammed the Mexican movie critics by calling them unprepared and jealous of the Mexicans that succeed, because they almost universally slammed his movie first. He has a point, but also the dumb, unprepared, jealous critics who called his movie bad in the first place.