Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, right, from 2002's Y Tu Mamá También reunite for a lightweight sports comedy that is just as energetic as their first outing, if not as psychologically freighted. This time they play a pair of dim Mexican stepbroth
ers who are talent-spotted by football coach Batuta (Guillermo Francella) . He wants one of the boys to come to Mexico City to play – either one will do, but eventually both are playing for rival teams and achieve fame and misfortune as they lose track of their goal of saving up enough money to build their dear old mum a house.
Instead the brothers bicker and torment each other. Bernal acquires a wardrobe of flashy clothes, a fancy crash pad and a celebrity girlfriend, and tries to launch himself as a pop star, while Luna starts gambling heavily and snorting drugs.
Director Carlos Cuarón has created a slight, ramshackle satire about Latin football which won't tell you anything you didn't already know about soccer and its fleshpot temptations. However Bernal's Spanish cover of Cheap Trick's I Want You To Want Me is an accordion-studded sensation worth catching.
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