Rudo y Cursi

2008 [SPANISH]

Action / Comedy / Drama / Sport

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 66% · 109 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 9650 9.7K

football (soccer) cine mexicano

Plot summary

Tato and Beto are poor stepbrothers living on a banana plantation in Mexico. Both are talented soccer players, but their dreams lay elsewhere: tone-deaf Tato wants to be a singer, while Beto is content to remain on the plantation. One day, a sports agent sees the two young men playing soccer and offers to take one of them to Mexico City for a chance at sports stardom.

Director

Carlos Cuarón Photo
Carlos Cuarón

Top cast

Harold Torres Photo
Harold Torres as Trompo Tovar
Diego Luna Photo
Diego Luna as Beto
Guillermo Francella Photo
Guillermo Francella as Batuta
Gael García Bernal Photo
Gael García Bernal as Tato
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
934.96 MB
1280*714
Spanish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 1
1.88 GB
1920*1072
Spanish 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Tony-Kiss-Castillo 6 / 10

A BETTER RENDERING OF THE TITLE WOULD BE..."RUDE and RUDER" !!!

Well... BEFORE jumping into this Mexican Offering....FIRST: Let us FOCUS on the Title's Content and Context:What great expectations I had for this film! And why not? Most of the Mexican films I've seen this year have received a well-deserved 4 Stars! Besides, this film boasts a redux of the pairing of Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, who starred together in "Y Tu Mama También". Remember the great portrayals they rendered in that film? The great on-screen chemistry they exhibited!?!"RUDO" begins with the title characters as brothers; well, half brothers, anyway, working on a banana plantation in rural Mexico. RUDO started out OK, although most of the funnier bits were rooted in the cultural regional oddities demonstrated in the congenial non-stop string of obscenities and insults the two brothers hurled at each other.I don't have to read subtitles in Spanish, but for those who do, I would imagine a lot of the humor would be lost because of them, and also because these regional cultural quirks are naturally lost in translation! As RUDO progressed, I increasingly became aware that my expectations were not going to be met. Like genetically engineered bananas...You know, the ones that take forever to ripen!... RUDO was picked too soon and served up green! The movie is funny and amusing, at times, but could have been a hell of a lot better, if everybody hadn't been so forced, if they all hadn't TRIED SO hard...to be funny!If they ALL hadn't been so stressed, I could have forgiven that RUDO's basic premise revolves around two 30-ish banana ranch worker brothers, who play local soccer on weekends, suddenly becoming the BEST soccer players in all of Mexico! That's a lot of suspension-of-disbelief!BTW...Don't miss the music video in Special Features...Las chicas Mexicanas try just hard enough! Barely limps in w/6*******.BUT.... ANYWAYS.... ENJOY! / DIDFRITELA!
Reviewed by Imdbidia 7 / 10

Funny comedy about football

A really funny, refreshing and original Mexican movie.It is the story of two adult brothers -nicknamed Rudo and Cursi- banana farmers and aficionado soccer players, who, after being discovered by a soccer manager, join the A league but each of them playing in different teams.I don't like soccer, so I thought that the movie would be a bore, but I was surprised that it did not bore me at all. The story is very well told with great sense of humor and lightness. Even the football scenes were engaging and very entertaining. The many twists and turns of the story, the drama and humor, the national self-deprecation, the passions and hatred of the characters are all presented in a very dynamic, sweet and light way. The movie really flows, has a great atmosphere, great characters and is very enjoyable.
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