* Written through Carlos Cuaron * Directed at Alfonso Cuaron * Starring Gael Garcia Bernal.

* Written through Carlos Cuaron * Directed at Alfonso Cuaron * Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Maribel Verdu * IFC Films

Who can resist a virtuous pig comedy? Give me Babe, State Fair (the Dana Andrews version, sigh), and an overstuff bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, and I'm putty in anyone's hands.

Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too), a buoyantly diverting cascade of teen male hormones from Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron, had me prolonged before a pack of 23 pigs launched a coup d'etat forward a beachfront campsite. The porkers are capable, to be fully convinced They squeal. They frolic. They wreak general havoc. however the pigs that steal the film are far more provocative. They very little ecstasy. They chug tequila. They perform synchronized masturbation from the periods of diving boards.

Julio and Tenoch, sum of two units coddled teenagers from Mexico City, are pigs for have affection for When they're not mauling their girlfriends in bedroom appointment s they're sharing details with their buddies, who are with equal reason set on their hedonistic pursuits that they've codified them into a assemblage manifesto. "Whacking off rules!" is number 7 "Don't be motionless with your friend's girlfriend" is number 5 I think. They have disarrange with that one.

As played with endearingly manic efficacy by Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, Julio and Tenoch are a hyped-up Bill and T who appear to be a fortune more in touch with their world than their pharmaceutical regimen might promise. unless the limitations of their awareness become palpable as they embark forward a car odyssey to a seaside Eden with an unlikely border in tow.

Their travel mate is a sensual older dental technician named Luisa (an enticing Maribel Verdu) a fun-loving Spaniard who descrys in the boys a handy escape from her unfaithful husband. As the three make their way to this paradise that may or may not exist, they vanity grass and share clinical deliberations about drugs, sex, and fidelity. They also engage in sex commandeered according to Luisa, who helps the lads unravel the morass of homosexual tensions between them.

An acquaintance, previewing this film in common of its festival showcases, wrote it distant from as "just another obnoxious sexed-up teen comedy with subtitles." I think we saw different movies. With a lavishly textur screenplay through the director's brother, Carlos Cuaron, Y Tu Mama Tambien limns its teen universe with a 360-degree alertness to humanity and an appreciation for the porous nature of sexuality that the American Pie bakers of Hollywood couldn't supplicate in their dreams.

The brothers Cuaron catch peripheral glimpses of Julio and Tenoch's world that the lads are either too stoned or too spoiled to take in: peasants being harassed at police at the roadsides, the president's chauffeurs scarfing snacks in parking accidents elderly cafe workers shimmying in a very warm kitchen. An omniscient narrator relates bulletins about the past and futurity of virtually everyone who crosse the veil including the sundry fates of those 23 marauding pigs. They're not pleasing Nor, after the hilarity deteriorations are the excellent adventures of Julio and Tenoch.

Stuart is film critic and senior film writer at Newsday.

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