NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

museumofdave These droll, whimsical and offbeat ninety minutes may drive many viewers to distraction--first strike: the film is in black and white; second--it's a foreign film and there are subtitles; third, sex and violence are almost non-existent, unless kids shooting at plates count.I found the film a quiet delight, an afternoon spent with two kids who discover that when the electricity goes out and the game-boy no longer operates, there are other ways to spend the time, and the other ways involve other human beings. And the human beings lead to some important connections. If you are action/plot oriented, don't even bother; if you appreciate different ways of looking at a commonplace world, you just might have as much fun as I did.

readerjra My uncle is actually Ulises, the pizza man, and me and my family were very proud when he won the Ariel. My name is Jorge Arreola, and funny enough, I am writing this from the computer at his house. The movie is awesome. Francisco Eimbcke is a genius. Some of the jokes are lost in translation, but watching the movie in Spanish without speaking it fluently is the same, and you will lose some of the jokes. All in all, this is one of my favorite movies of all time, not just because of my uncle. If you can't speak it, this movie is worth learning Spanish for. My uncle has a new movie coming out within the next year, Parpados Azules, and I suggest you see it as soon as you can, whether or not you speak Spanish.

DhariaLezin I've seen lots of Mexican films, but after living in the biggest and most populated city of the world, even though many films are great, they don't show exactly the reality of living here. "Y tu mamá también" is a good example of this: even though the film is great, the reality of the country and its people is entirely different. So after listening and reading very good comments of Temporada de Patos (Duck season), I finally had the chance to see it. Even though I am not a boy or I was not a girl that would prepare marijuana brownies when I was a teenager, the film entirely reminded me my life about ten years ago. Helped by the photography (which is awesome)it shows with just the necessary dialogs the feelings, doubts and thoughts of Mexican puberty. And also there is a pizza guy that at the end becomes one more of the "apartment Sunday junky gang" that for many people would not be entirely credible, but for me it is, because when you are a medium class Mexican teenager, and you are able to save the few money you would spend on a pizza you will do it. The way they handle doubts as sexuality, drugs, relationship with the parents, friendship, junk food and things like that is excellent. The flashbacks are great, the way they handle the "trip" with marijuana is also excellent, the dialogs and the music too. I would absolutely recommend anyone to see it because it is viewable for all the ages, and it will remind our early teenager days to any adult who watches it.

Dart_Adams ***SPOILER ALERT*** (KINDA, ANYWAYS)I love independent films. I love international films. I love character driven films without special effects set in few locations that are sometimes in black and white. I saw the trailer for "Duck Season" on IFC (A channel I watch regularly) a year ago...I thought that it looked interesting so I put it on my Netflix queue. I just watched it yesterday and I have to say that I was bored out of my mind. I was completely uninterested in anything that happened to these kids...I waited for some element of the film to spring up and draw me in someway. I really wanted to like this movie. It was dull, bland, uninspired and I pretty much had to FORCE myself to see it all the way through.I understood the symbolism, the coming of age tale, the friendship, the pizza delivery mans internal struggles, the gay undertones, the symbolism of the duck painting that the parents are fighting over, blah, blah, blah....The problem is that I just didn't care for ANY of the characters. Nothing the director did made me care about their plights, nothing that happened in that film made me want to invest anything in them. Not the *ahem* "action", not the dialogue, not the "conflicts", nor the characters....NOTHING.I was bored after an hour and the film is UNDER 90 MINUTES LONG! I felt like I was sitting there waiting for something to happen...nothing did....Well, it DID...I just didn't care when it did. Who lets a stranger take a bath in their tub? Especially an adult? Fifteen minutes of high people staring at a painting of ducks doesn't do it for me. The last time I was this frustrated and disappointed in a film was Junebug. This gets a 3 out of 10 from me...I don't know what the rest of you were watching but this "film" did NOTHING for me. One.