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This review will probably not make sense for you if you're not a Latino, so you can skip it.

The movie is fine. Despite the range everyone is expected to have from the start, Tonatiuh makes the most of it. They are the most valuable player since they manage to have chemistry with both Diego Luna and Jennifer Lopez, one of the most important aspects of this movie if you want an engaged audience. They even succeed while looking nothing like an Argentinian or like their supposed extended family. When I saw their "mom", I only thought of Telemundo's early 90s soap operas where you had a Mexican mom, a Cuban dad and another Caribbean relative pretending to be part of the same family despite the accents (aren't we all the same thing?) - Don't ask me why a Bichir is also running this Argentinian prison, either.

Lopez and Luna are not bad at all, but if they weren't among the producers, I doubt they would have been cast themselves for these roles. They have zero chemistry. Lopez has more chemistry with the super villain that appears for only one scene than with Luna. Despite his age, she seems too mature for him and the blond wig doesn't do her any favors.

Luna, on the other hand, is supposed to be a guy who comes from nothing and becomes this rebel. Those of us familiar with Luna's life, we'll never be able to believe that he comes from "the wrong side of the tracks". He's too "fresa" for that, and that's precisely why he has more chemistry with the actress playing his love interest. That's exactly the kind of woman he's usually attached to. Just like Salma was "Frida by Revlon", he remains in pretty good shape throughout the movie, and never goes to the extremes that Raul Julia did. Those of us who know what (US sponsored) military repression looked like in Latin America will have a hard time overlooking that.

As I said before, the movie is OK but it succeeds when Luna and Lopez are not sharing their screen and we are not expected to care about their story.

If you enjoyed John Waters' "Polyester", the deadpan humor of "Daria" or the irreverence of Enid in "Ghost world", you can definitely enjoy this movie. Griffin is not your average tween.

This is a rare coming-of-age story where your main characters get to have layers, instead of being products of the Disney Channel acting school.

Given that it acknowledges the reality that all humans start developing their sexualities and attractions even before we're able to articulate what we are feeling, I am sure this film will not be widely embraced. A very conservative and exclusionary environment is not the right time for it. But it is exactly what we need. You can bet that (just like most non-superhero macho films) it will receive several bad grades here on IMDb with no real explanation of its merits or shortcomings. Check it out and decide for yourself.

Even though there's not much of Melanie Lynskey, I am okay with it given that the film lasts as much as it needs to. It doesn't overstay its welcome. I sure hope we get to see much more of both the director and Everett Blunck.