Hazlo Como Hombre

This is a terrible and offensive film. Under the guise of pretending to be supportive, tolerant, and modern, it dredges up every old homophobic reaction and wallows in them endlessly until it dawns on the viewer that the offensive stuff is the point. The supportive pretense is just window dressing so that the filmmakers can spend 90% of this film trying to wring laughs out of ignorance, conversion therapy, fear, bullying, and fighting. Instead of making gayness the brunt of jokes, like a dreadful film from the 1950s, it would have been far more interesting for 3 friends - one of whom has just come out - to tackle a nongay situation together and watch them change, grow, make mistakes, and in the end realize it is no big deal - their friendship is the big deal. Instead we get writing that is abysmal, characters that are mostly stereotypes, and extreme overacting like they're playing clowns 🤡 at the circus. Tbh, it got so annoying I bailed midway through. This is definitely not comic: it's a dreadful and offensive mess.

The acting was very exaggerated even for a comedy. But I had a few LOL moments with the movie.

I admit that 'Hazlo como hombre' made me laugh a lot, as I'm very much into black comedies with sexual humor throughout. And I also felt a little uncomfortable because I went to see it with my mom who hates that kind of humor (I advice you not to see it with your parents at all costs).

Mauricio Ochmann did a great job as the hateful big male with a mind full of stereotypes against women and of course, against gays too. In general all the performances were good for what this movie is, and well, the very criticized performance of Aislinn Derbez, was sometimes even frightening for me, despite of being exaggerated. The rest of the cast did a nice job.

The script was gross but hilarious for me because as I said before, I have seen a few more films of that type of humor and I could perfectly handle with it.

But however, even tough it has the good intentions of create conscience about all the prejudices and stereotypes against homosexuality that Mexico has nowadays, the way these things are portrayed isn't the best, because the struggles of accepting something so strong like being gay is played in a way that, although probably not as cartoonish as it could have been, it is played in a very superficial way that leaves the viewer with a big doubt: if this movie is really in favor of being tolerant with everyone and to accept who we are, or if what this movie is really in favor with is the idea that no matter what we do, our thoughts about anything will never change, including the bad ones.

Overall, I recommend to see this only for the humor and the nice performances, but only that. Don't buy a ticket for this if you think you're going to see a movie with a great message for everyone because believe me, you will be disappointed.

Thanks for reading!

P.S. It goes without saying that this is one of the films that I would less recommend you to see if you're gay. I'm not, but if you are, you'll be probably wondering as long as you got out of the theater: "WTF was that?"

my god! this was, in a few words: painful to watch! had stupid forced jokes, machismo (or very low respect for woman, antifeministic, for those who are not familiar with the term), very lame and poorly developed storyline, which basically is how this guy reacts to the fact his friend is gay! THAT'S ALL!, really baaaaad performances (excepting Aislinn), and in the end, they want us to forgive them just because it has some morality, bad sex jokes who mexicans adore and friendship/family values bullsh*t.

I want a refund, i cannot believe i paid for watch this complete utterly SH*T.

if you want good Mexican cinema watch instead "Después de Lucía". That's intense and actually leaves you with the impression that you just had seen art. This is garbage, and an embarrassment. Do not pay for this. I had warned you.

If i had to name the top 5 movies being the worst, this would be the number one! I am not sure if the Director or the writer had the idea to picture a gay life with no sense of bad acting and terribly story to place in a great city Mexico city. Love and drama can be expressed in a better way that this bad acting and a boring story where instead of making it more romantic, it was a total disaster! Not to mention it was not funny at all, just over the top (i mean terribly acing) and bringing a fake story to the gay community!