The people who made this movie must have watched every one of those amoral French movies of the '70s. Lots of cigarettes smoked, beers consumed, and more marijuana than any movie this side of Cheech and Chong. The trip through the Mexican countryside is visually fascinating, but the story is hackneyed. I can't call this a coming of age story because it is hard to see how the boys would be matured by this escapist fantasy. And do people really find this erotic? It's all very predictable and has a ridiculously manipulative ending. Hugely overrated. But I'd love to see a grown-up movie in the same setting.