Luna is Beto and Bernal is Tato, two banana plantation workers from a little Mexican town who let off steam by playing local futbol, with Beto (nicknamed 'Rudo' for his rude/rough style) as a goalie and Tato as a striker.įrom what I've read, 'Rudo y Cursi' is supposed to be a satire on present-day Mexico's 'narco-society.' But 'Rudo' is such a nasty piece of work that it's quite difficult to find the biting humor in any of it. And that's what happens in the movie, too.Ĭarlos even casts Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, who were the stars of Alfonso's breakout 2001 hit 'Y Tu Mamá También' (which the Cuarons wrote together) as the dueling half-brothers in this movie. (I'm certainly not calling Alfonso a hack I've got some 'Children of Men'-loving buddies who would hunt me down like a wild boar if I did.) But, from what I gathered, this is basically about a little brother trying pitifully to show up his big brother.

It got me wondering about the relationship between Alfonso Cuaron and his younger brother Carlos, who directed 'Rudo.' Now, I'm not saying that the Cuarons are hacks. While watching 'Rudo y Cursi,' I was reminded of that time on 'SCTV' when hack comic Bobby Bittman (Eugene Levy) introduced his younger, even hackier brother Skip (Rick Moranis) on an episode of 'The Sammy Maudlin Show.' The minute Bobby's little brother came out on stage, doing his bumbling, pathetic impressions and putting his big brother's business out on the street, it was embarrassing.

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