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Published 15:32 08 Apr 2026 GMT
Viewers have been left speechless after watching Netflix's "most explicit movie ever," which reportedly has "absolutely disgusting" scenes.
The streaming service recently added the coming-of-age film, Y Tu Mamá También (2001), a critically acclaimed Mexican film directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
The movie follows the friendship between two teenage boys named Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael García Bernal) as they come to the end of high school and start to think about what's next.
With their girlfriends off to spend their summer in Europe, the two boys meet Luisa (Maribel Verdú), an older woman, and invite her to join them on a road trip from Mexico City to a paradisiacal beach in Oaxaca.
To their surprise, she says yes. What begins as a carefree journey quickly turns into something more, as the trio forms unexpected emotional and personal connections.
The movie, which has been dubbed "the original Challengers," has divided audiences due to its graphic content, including steamy threesomes, emotional tension, and themes of sexual discovery.
Some viewers were clearly caught off guard, as according to TVF, one user called it an "absolutely disgusting movie," while another reacted: "Wtf is this doing on Netflix. I can't imagine what it would do to the sensibilities of unsuspecting families opening it for a mindless Sunday viewing."
A third user on X quipped: "Just watched Y Tu Mama Tambien for the first time. Expected it to be the horniest movie I’d ever seen and it was somehow even more horny than that."
However, not everyone was displeased, as one person praised: "Watched y tu mamá también last night god that was so incredible so good."
A second added: "Can't believe I've only just watched Y tu mamá también. A masterpiece !"
The movie originally received an NC-17 rating in the United States and was given an 18+ rating in Mexico - a decision the filmmakers famously pushed back on in court.
Despite the controversy, the film earned strong critical acclaim, scoring an impressive 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and getting rave reviews from critics.
In an interview with The New York Times, director Alfonso Cuarón explained the intention behind the film’s explicit scenes: "We wanted the sex scenes to get a point across about these characters and about the social elements we were playing with, like class and the conceptions of masculinity that these characters have."
His brother, Carlos, who helped write the movie, added: "That portrait of adolescence with its failures and virtues, the narrator who doesn’t narrate but contextualizes things and helped us avoid explanatory scenes, the enormous chemistry between Diego and Gael and the counterpoint that Maribel provided were some of the many factors.
"None of us who made it thought it would have such success. When we wrote the screenplay, we didn’t know who would dare make it," he said.
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