Someone I trust recommended this film to me. I was really surprised. It was really bad, and got worse with each and every minute. Basically, it is a Disney movie, only the bad American actors were replaced by bad Mexican actors.Maybe, as years pass by, I might be able to forgive the friend that enticed me to spend valuable time watching this sorry piece of wasted celluloid. Time that I will never get back.This is not just one of the worst movies I have ever seen, but the worst Mexican movie I've ever seen, without any doubt. If they have the Razzies in Guanujato, this movie would walk away with all the prices.

This film is full of emotions. Despite the fact that the plot feels "empty", it manages to center your attention on things people don't really care about anymore. It successfully adds comedy elements to what seems to be dominated by drama. Although it seems to try to hard to make you feel emotionally engaged to the film, that doesn't make it less pleasant. The acting was better than descent; so was the filming. The only flaws would be the ending, which keeps you waiting for something that never happens and how some characters start with few importance and end with a lot of importance, and vice versa. Overall, this is an excellent Mexican movie that does not involve drug cartels or criminals as protagonists (which was about time).

Regardless of its country of origin, a movie that promotes values, life, and respect the way "El Estudiante" does, is truly hard to find these days. The film is truly remarkable and a hard departure from today's mostly trash-filled films. A film you can see with all the family without worries. An uncompromised masterpiece.I am to see a better-made, better-acted, heartfelt piece of art. My best wishes to Gaston Pavlovich, its creator, and may this movie be seen and rewarded for all years to come.Specially remarkable is the work of Mr. Lavat, whose artistic origins and past work are well known to most Mexicans. The new crop of your actors, their fresh if ordinary looks are worth of representing a new cinema wave for people tired of cheap acting roles of would be's like Gael Garcia's or the like who act based on foulness and cheapness. Good Job!

This movie is incredible. Incredibly bad that is. It is pompous, preposterous, unrealistic, naive, a postcard-like, in the vein of the famous, so much criticized and ridiculed t.v. "sopa operas" or "culebrones" coming out of Mexico. It presents Mexico and its people as some caricatures of what the film director would like them to be. The old fellow preaches to his much younger fellow students and they just nod, there is a lesson about drug taking, u see, u should not because then u will have no money to pay so the bad drug dealer will have u beaten up. U should try to read verses from Don Quijote to the complete strangers, it will make their day and yours. The old man preaches to others about life but when his equally old wife dies (and the best possible kind death it was - in her sleep) he despairs and asks the Lord the most naive and senile questions. It is all too schmaltzy, too sentimental, to corny. The student pregnant with her teacher's baby baptizes it Alicia, like the old men's dead wife. He bursts into tears at hearing this. How touching, how true. They are true friends u know, him and a group of 20 year olds, because they have known him for a few months, he is only 40 years older and he preached to them. Like in real life. The old man talks to the statue of Don Quijote and admits he has learned a lot at the university. I wonder what, a few words that the young use these days? Because nothing else. Neither do we, we learn nothing true and real about the students in Mexico these days, nothing about the old days and passing away, nothing about the differences between being young and old. In addition the cinematography is poor, the fim has a grainy transfer, the photos are poor, we see very little of the supposedly beautiful Guanajuato. I like "feel good" movies, nothng wrong with them from time to time. But they must be made in a clever, intelligent, convincing way, not like this. The most amazing of this cinematic "experience" was to watch it in a full cinema in Mexico. The room liked the film, the room found it good. Which says a lot about the state of mind of a typical Mexican person, who is polite, polished, smiling and pleasant, but apparently also superficial.