Parents' Guide to

Ya Veremos

By Michael Ordona, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 13+

Spanish-language dramedy has language, iffy decisions.

Movie PG-13 2018 97 minutes
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What's the Story?

In YA VEREMOS, recently divorced Rodrigo (Mauricio Ochmann) and Alejandra (Fernanda Castillo) co-parent their 11-year-old son, Santi (Emiliano Aramayo), as Alejandra prepares to remarry. When Santi is diagnosed with a condition that may soon cost him his sight, his mom and dad must put aside their differences. The reunified "family" goes on a comic bucket-list trip before the boy's fateful surgery.

Is It Any Good?

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This slapstick-heavy dramedy's goodwill is undercut by its contrivances, insensitivities, and characters' iffy decisions. Ya Veremos ("We'll See") feels too neat. It's hard not to be aware of the plot's clockwork nature, hard not to feel we're being moved from one artificial situation to another in the name of getting the parents' priorities straight. But even that circumstance isn't convincingly set up: Rodrigo's great sin in the marriage was that, as a dedicated doctor, he tended to patients who depended on him. And Alejandra's journey is muddled at best.

In search of laughs, the film allows one character to be repeatedly fat-shamed and depicts the Japanese husband of a pregnant woman as un-masculine, weak, and fearful. And when Santi says he wants to see a naked woman in the flesh, his parents trick Rodrigo's ex-lover (a woman who's still desperately, obsessively in love with him) into exposing herself to the boy. Ha ha? They also let him drive in heavy traffic, and one character who's done nothing wrong gets shafted in the name of a "happy" ending. There's some charm in the cast, but ultimately this Mexican hit feels like a TV movie in the old, negative sense. Its conflicts are unconvincing, its solutions convenient, and its laughs few and far between.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about the iffy decisions in Ya Veremos. What do you think of how they handled Santi's request to see a nude woman? Was it fair to her to trick her into that situation? What did that sequence teach Santi about consent?

  • What did you think of the way the overweight male nurse and henpecked Japanese husband were portrayed? Are these depictions stereotypes?

  • Did the film seem believable to you? Does that matter?

Movie Details

  • In theaters: August 31, 2018
  • On DVD or streaming: November 20, 2018
  • Cast: Mauricio Ochmann
  • Director: Pedro Pablo Ibarra
  • Inclusion Information: Latinx actors
  • Studio: Pantelion Films
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 97 minutes
  • MPAA rating: PG-13
  • MPAA explanation: some language and suggestive content
  • Last updated: August 24, 2022

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