Educación sexual en breves lecciones

The early days of Mexican cinema saw great movies being made... By the time the 90sof the last century arrived that era was long gone. This movie shows why.

If you are nostalgic about the 90s, don't tune it for this movie, it didn't take me more than a fewscenes to hate the womanizer, his naive slut of a victim and this victim's false friend who wouldn't tell her that the womanizer had made a move on her, a ridicuous one at that (passing his toes over her leg under the table and pulling him to give her the worst kiss ever, one where only lips meet, as his girlfriend was distracted. And they are cool because they play with their fingers as if they were guns... Yea, this is crap.

Mexico used to have a much larger output of films in the past. Those movies were mostly cheap and dull comedies, or groan-inducing melodramas. However, those cheap, dull and groan-inducing films actually managed to get people's rears into theater seats, so at least they justified their existence by being (somewhat) profitable. A select few maverick Mexican directors dared to make politically charged films in politically charged times in order to represent Mexico in film festivals.

But then there's movies like Educación sexual en breves lecciones, which fails as popular entertainment as well as an art piece (or as a sex ed movie). It's because of movies like this that Mexico's movie industry took a nose dive in the 90's. Who would want to waste their leisure time and spare change on this mess? That would just encourage director Alejandro Gamboa to do more like it.

So this is the story of Ana, a co-ed that somehow managed to stay a virgin until her early 20's despite looking like a daytime soap star and in spite of a secular mindset that probably rules out any chastity vows. Her dream is to find Mr. Right. Her bff Alejandra already seems to have found hers, but, alas, he's a two-timing womanizer that even hits on Ana herself at some point. A goofy male friend of Ana's want so badly to hook up with her, so of course she blows him off rather childishly, because this is her movie, dammit, not his. Anyway, Ana is hot for teacher. She engages in painfully cheesy secret admirer games that eat up a lot of time and go nowhere, and when that fails, she tries to literally jump his bones in his office. Alas, teacher's... ¡gay! *gasp* Goofy male friend confronts Ana with her folly and sermons her about dating outside her age group. Ana submits meekly to his Father Knows Best logic, and she finally relents. Ana, Goofy Friend (now Goofy Boyfriend), Alejandra and her Two-Timing Cheating Boyfriend all kiss in the end, which sound like an awesome orgy but it isn't. A pity. That orgy scene could have saved this boring, bland, moralistic wreck of a movie, and it could have imparted some of the sex education mentioned in the title but that was nowhere to be seen in the whole 94 minutes.

I find the two above reviews somewhat harsh in their comments and appreciation of this film. For a start, the title I do not read it as is written. That is, it is just a title, by all means it does not mean that it is of explicit sex scenes and situations. It is just a title.

It is a comedy, meant to be funny -and it is- I would say during all of the film. Regarding the acting, I find it refreshing. All the actors are quite good, their dialogs come out as if they were not acting but as if they were talking in every day life. All of them. In one word, I do recommend watching this film but seeing it with an open mind and wanting to spend a good time.

Absolutely horrible piece of crap from Televicine. I watched this only for the purpose to criticize Mexican producers that think that Mexicans should accept horrible excuses for movies like this one!

It seems that the budget was $100 dollars (and I'm being nice). The acting is horrible! Soberon has never been a good t.v. or movies actor, he should stick to theater. Kate del Castillo may be beautiful but her acting skills suck the big one; even on this movie she can't show why she's considered as a good actress.

The situations are worse than in the cheapest soap opera. I cannot say that I'm glad that Televicine does not longer exists because at least it gave job opportunities. But this kind of movies shouldn't be produced.

Please, people, as an audience we can accept or not horrible movies like this one. So, ask for quality products and don't let direct to video producers come out with scrips that were made with the butt.

My rant has ended. Also, Legarreta is a terrible actress! Too good for her that she now stares in her own t.v. show.