![]() ![]() ![]() What matters is only the next goal, the next winning streak, the next hit record. Rudo's wife conscripts her husband into a pyramid sales program (a satirical version of a real-life Mexican company) even as the goalie's ears prick up at the siren call of the gambling table. Both the agent and the sexy TV superstar (Jessica Mas) who becomes Cursi's trophy girlfriend let slip their pasts as nobodies clawing their way out of poverty. The joke isn't that Rudo and Cursi are woefully unprepared for fame but that the entire country is high on the fumes of empty celebrity and fast bucks. The agent's weary narration provides the film with its philosophy of self-interest. Tata (Bernal) is the dreamer, a wannabe singer and full-time little boy whose delighted victory dance after scoring goals earns him the nickname "Cursi," roughly translated as "tacky but kind of cute." Discovered when an opportunistic sports agent (Guillermo Francella) has a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, they're whisked off the banana plantation into the big time. Here, they're just boneheads, country bumpkin half-brothers who miraculously get a shot at futbol stardom just when it seems their options are winding down.īeto (Luna) is nicknamed "Rudo" ("rough") for his hotheaded behavior in and out of the goal box he's not above punching out opposing players if it'll even the odds. In the first film, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna played reckless teenagers getting high on sex and bravado. It helps that he also has the two young stars of Y Tu Mama, reunited for the first time since that breakthrough. It's a promising start if Carlos isn't a breathtaking cinematic stylist like his sibling, he knows exactly who his characters are and the machismo-addled culture in which they struggle to keep afloat. But what can you expect, asks writer-director Carlos Cuaron, of a country where all the men are big he-man babies?Ĭuaron is making his directorial debut here he's best known for writing the 2001 hit Y Tu Mama Tambien, which was directed by his brother Alfonso ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban). A soccer story in which, perversely, the game itself is rarely shown, the movie is democratic in spirit: everyone goes home a loser. Rudo y Cursi is a grave and calculated affront to the men of Mexico, and that's the source of its roistering charm. ![]()
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