Rudo y Cursi (Carlos Cuarón, 2008)

A rags-to-riches-to-rags morality tale with a comic slant, Rudo y Cursi reunites the stars of Y tu mamá también with its writer to charming if slight effect. They play two poor hick brothers in the Mexican boondocks this time, one dreaming of a singing career, the other preoccupied with finding the perfect gambling system, taken to the big city by a footballing impresario where their heads are soon sent spinning by its parasitical glamour mill. The plot is strictly join-the-dots, as they develop disenchanting problems after a spell in the limelight, but vivacity of directorial touch and the squabbling twosome's happy-go-lucky characterisations make for a pleasantly jaunty ride back to where they started from.

6/10