Rudo y Cursi

As you can possibly tell, I am soccer nut, and love to watch soccer movies. The beautiful thing about soccer movies is that they are made in many different languages. Unlike baseball or American Football movies, which are all made in USA, soccer movies are made world wide, and it is a world wide loved sport.

This movie however puts an interesting twist on soccer. In this sport, you can be big one day, and dead the next. The trick is holding onto your fans.

Mexican half brothers Beto and Tato - who will eventually be appropriately nicknamed Rudo (rough) and Cursi (corny), respectively - have a typical love/hate relationship with each other. They both work on a banana plantation and live with their extended family consisting of their mother, abusive stepfather, sister Nadia, and Beto's wife Toña and their children. The family are rural peasant class and are barely making ends meet. The brother's fortunes change when into their lives comes Batuta, a soccer scout. Despite their advancing ages, both Beto and Tato are naturally gifted at soccer, Beto as a goaltender and Tato as a striker. Playing professionally has always been Beto's dream, although Tato has other professional thoughts on his mind. Batuta eventually recruits both for different teams in Mexico City. Beto and Tato's fortunes rise and fall, the falls based on those things which hold more passion for the brothers. For Tato, he loves fast women, specifically television spokes-model Maya, but he loves singing even more. He would give up his soccer career for one in Mexican country singing, if only he was any good at it. For Beto, his passion is gambling. Although Beto is up front and straightforward about most things in life, he would lie and cheat to hide his gambling problem and debts. They just have to keep these alternate passions in check to make their soccer lives lucrative ones.

This movie by no means is anything amazing though. It’s kind of slow, and has awful music in it. That could be part of the joke of the movie, but it got on m

y nerves after a while. But I thought it was a good rags to riches story, and how fast you can go up and down in life.

I personally loved the character of Cursi played by Gael García Bernal, who was Che in Motorcycle Diaries, was in Babel, Y tu mamá también and The Science of Sleep. He is a very good actor, and I love him in all of his movies. He was very funny and corny in this movie, but not that good of a soccer player. In the mov

ie itself, you don’t actually see him play soccer, or that much soccer playing, you mostly see him cheering after a goal and the crowd’s reaction towards it.

This movie is rated R, and there is some nudity

in it. If they took out this one sex scene, this movie would be PG-13 with out a doubt. The language isn’t all that bad. I cant remember if there was a lot of F words or not, but I know there was some in there. But I thought it was a good movie and I didn’t think it was a waste of my time.