See You in Montevideo (2014) User Reviews

One of the best football movies, even though it's not just about the sport

[DukeWolfenstein · 8/10 · 16 December 2015]

There aren't a lot of films about association football where football features so much. This has it all - football, drama, love, comedy, friendship and camaraderie. It's visually great, the music amazing, the main plot is good and there are enough sub-plots to keep the story interesting. The film is a bit of a light-hearted drama (not too heavy, deep or sad) and has moments of light comedy and comes off as being cute.

It does play as a feel-good film without avoiding issues such as corruption, nationalism, what is the precursor to football hooliganism and so on, but it does not take those issues lightly either.

Overall a great film and a must watch for people that are into history, football and the history of football.

Best Football movie you will ever see

[mrcibubur · 9/10 · 16 December 2014]

I am a football fan and widely travelled but I did not know the story of the Yugoslavia football team in the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay and I thoroughly enjoyed this film from start to finish. I am a little uncomfortable with the reference to the Yugoslav team being entirely Serbian but I acknowledge why it was referenced in the way it was and i empathise with the analogy if a British team competing was comprised entirely of Englishmen.

Superbly filmed, excellent dialogues, loaded with comic moments, touching moments of romance and suspense but I wonder if the romance was true between the Yugoslav football player and Dolores? In years there has not been a football related movie to get even remotely close to 'The Damned United' and the Brian Clough story but this, given it is a foreign language film, exceeds that and you are missing a jewel of a movie at your absolute peril.

It is a weird kind of agony that Yugoslavia beat the favoured nation Brazil in their first match which nation also supplied the reference for that eventful semi=final with Uruguay and the irony extends to the 1950 final when Uruguay beat Brazil on their 'patch'.

The film itself was in my view faultless but I would have liked some reference at the end as to what happened in the lives of those Yugoslav football players. Did they return to Serbia? By the way, reference to Coca Cola was a little odd because I thought the soft drink was not marketed aligned with Santa Klaus for red and white until the Christmas of 1936.

Excellent film

[AnyaSoh · 8/10 · 5 February 2015]

I loved this film, but there are some mistakes in it concerning the Brazilian team. In the 30's there were almost no African Brazilians playing football. In fact, the first one was Benedicto, playing for Vasco Da Gama and for the national team that went to Uruguai. My father used to tell his story, adding that after him, black players started being accepted. The Fluminense Football Club had a black player who used to paint his body with white powder so that he could play. It gave the team the nickname of "face powder", which is still used today. The clothes the players use in the film are wrong too. They are Brazilians after all, and not Africans. In spite of these mistakes, and many others, the film is very good and brings about many questions related to the world cup that still prevail...

Charming and humorous

[bakovljev9 · 10/10 · 27 January 2014]

Having recently watched the Wolf of Wall Street, the film was a wonderful reminder that not all has to be crass and vulgar. The film is full of charm and humour which I can only hope will not be lost in translation.

Hollywood should view this film and realise that there is much more to cinema than obscenity mixed in with blood and guts. To have made such a film on a Balkan budget speaks volumes for the producers, director, actors and editing staff.

Could there possibly be a third part - the return home.

Bravo.

Great movie... Based on true story.

[aleksandar-d-randjelovic · 10/10 · 25 January 2014]

First: I just need to say something about last two lines. If you have watched first part of the movie (but that is told in the second one, too): it was Yugoslavian national team made from Serbian football players ONLY so that two lines are not about Great Serbia. If that was UK and only English players play in national team because all other refuse to join team. You could say that that was success of England. People want to share victories... but not defeats. If Yugoslavia was last in Uruguay and the last two lines were: That was the biggest defeat of Serbia... no one would talk about that.

Second: movie is very good. It is based on historical facts. All about last game is true. But everything is not true... for example part about pimping the egg or marrow, etc.

Hope you'll watch it and you'll like it. :-)

lcd television

[borna-grguric · 10/10 · 16 August 2014]

In one of the reviews I've read he/she complains having new flat TVin 1930. with Neymar on it.

Maybe you should consider re-watching a movie ones again, because when you saw a modern TV it wasn't 1930., it was present, having Stanoje (little lame boy) telling story at his old age to another man, who wanted to make a movie about it.

So... since you sh*t on the movie, which you obviously didn't understand, you should not give false information to others.

Great movie, but the sense of humor is not that easy to understand to non Yugoslavian people, since the translation is too literal.

Montevideo

[bokimajk · 9/10 · 12 April 2014]

Just watched this movie and have to say it was very good... it reminds me on those good times when you watch old Hollywood movies. p.s. Petar Matic if you say this there was no Serbia at this time because it didn't exist at this time, well guess what there, was no Serbian aggression towards those you mentioned because war broke in Yugoslavia and neither Serbia and others existed at that time, so save us from your nationalistic crap here which gave us those things in the 90-tis.This is movie forum where people from whole world come because of the movies not to listen to your crap that they threw from their countries long time ago. cheers everybody...

one of the best movies I've ever watched

[benjamintinjic · 10/10 · 26 January 2014]

I went to the cinema to watch this movie expecting something similar to the first one, imagine my surprise when I watched perhaps best movie ever. I know that most would disagree, because taste is unique for every person. Acting in this movie is great, actors that no one heard of before "Montevideo, Bog te video" are really amazing. Spanish actress Elena Martinez is mind blowing.

I really believe that beginning like this will make Dragan Bjelogrlic not only one of the best Serbian actors, but the best Serbian director.

Story itself is fantastic, at the same time this movie will make you laugh and cry, it is a great story about people and how can one event change them completely. Moreover, this is the ultimate story about friendship.

Unfortunately, this movie (even though the story is universal) will only people from ex-Yugoslavia understand entirely. Further more, many people will criticize because in the end it says this was the biggest success of Serbia (that was biggest success of Yugoslavia), but such line should not put a shadow over such great movie.

Great movie, don't miss it

[Borisav-ignjatov · 9/10 · 23 January 2014]

Can't give it a 10, but movie is great…chance to see what was the football when it was played from love to the game, and to see beginnings of interference of managers and money. Of the topic, mr. Petarmatic, at first i thought the same, wtf Serbian best position when Yugoslavia played, then I read about and saw that only Serbian players played, and Serbia has all the right to be proud of its best position in the World cup. Your comments of the Serbian aggression were not pertinent for this site, and are rather one-sided. Couple hundred thousand of Serbian people was expelled from theirs homes and killed in "Serbian aggression" so please edit your comment and keep commenting the movie only.

Excellent movie

[riverside-704-596061 · 8 February 2014]

I watched the first movie few years ago and it was a great experience. I grew up in a strict communist country, where even a mere mention that something great was archived by it's predecessor (the European-oriented and democratic Kingdom of Yugoslavia) was forbidden.When I first heard that Yugoslavian football team won bronze medal back in 1930, I thought that somebody was being over-patriotic because I never heard of such event. Luckily I was wrong. The story begins with Yugoslav football team,comprised of Serbs from Belgrade teams, going on sea voyage to Montevideo, to the first ever football championship of the wold,follows their (mis)adventures in the city of Montevideo and matches they participated. There are three characters that made the movie great: Paco is a Croat from Herzegovina that lives in Montevideo.At the beginning, he is very cold and cynical towards the Serbs,but slowly that attitude changes, and there are many warm moments in the movie that makes a viewer believe that those two nations can settle their difference and be nice to each other.He is played by seasoned actor Branko Đurić, one of the best in former Yugoslavia. His acting is a pure 10, and without him, the movie wouldn't be half as good as it is. Petar Strugar plays Moša, player that has swinging moods and somewhere in the middle of the movie, looses his self confidence,which affects his football performance.He regains it in the most touching scene of the movie, among the children with leprosy.I hope to see Strugar in more movies, because he has a charisma and the looks of Žarko Laušević,who lost to a world of acting by a tragic event back in the 90s. Armand Assante plays Hotchkins, a football manager that came to Montevideo in pursuit of fresh cannon fodder for his travelling football circus. His machination almost make the Yugoslav football team crumble.His role is played magnificently,and even though he is as sleazy as a manager can be, I was able to understand his ways and ever look at him as almost a positive character.Great actor and great play! One more thing:the director of this movie is Dragan Bjelogrlić,and he is an actor as well.I dislike him as actor, but his director's opus is great! Hope he produces more movies like this because this is one of the rare sequels that is better than the original movies. All four thumbs up!

Historical inaccuracies condition every opinion

[flavio-orlando · 2/10 · 30 June 2017]

*****SPOILERS********

While this can be an enjoyable comedy the historical inaccuracies (on facts that can be checked on Wikipedia by a 10 years old) are so big that they invalidate the whole movie.

Uruguay depiction reminds the image of Mexico given by a bad American action movie from early 80's, a tropical dusty place where people wear white hats and white suits, eat coconuts and have monkey pets. There are reports from 1930 WC that say that there were SNOW falls during the Cup so hardly a tropical country. Moreover Uruguay was a much developed and "European" country than Yugoslav itself back then, receiving scores of European immigrants every year (including people from Yugoslavia).

The Brazilian team is shown as having all black players which at the time were banned from the national team. If you do "Brazilian national team 1930" in Google you will see a lot of pictures with not one single African-Brazilian player on them. Their jersey was not yellow and no, they did not have a witch-doctor that looks like taken from the "Tintin in Congo" comic book to curse their rivals. Finally, while is entirely possible that Uruguay was, in fact, favored in the semi- final match against Yugoslavia there were in no case mobs with torches in the stands threatening with lynching the Yugoslav players, case they won. By the way, they lost that match by a 5 goals difference and that is not explained by some doubtful play in which the rival might have been favored. Sorry but it is impossible to enjoy a movie which feeds so freely on stupid stereotypes and gross historical inaccuracies. They all make it look cheap and lightly produced.

Excellent movie which you need to watch

[fp-roka · 10/10 · 26 January 2014]

This is an excellent movie, with great story, great camera, great acting.... One more thing this is second part of th movie Montevideo - God Bless you, When I was looking for this movie on this site I just sawed review from ex Yugoslavia's republic called Bosnia and Herzegovina and in every single thing these people form Bosnia (Islamic part of Bosnia) are writing things that has nothing with movie, they write about politics and religious views an in a matter of a fact this film has nothing to do with it and its true story what happened what you can easily find evidence in a 1 minute. In first part of film in that time 1930 was Yugoslavian Kingdom and Croatian players didn't want to play on this world cup and that is a fact that only Serbian players actually did play on this world cup. Its easy to find which players played for every country for example Yugoslavia beat Brasil 2:1

So stunning movie really non political and very easy for watching, I recommend you to watch it an I'm sure you will like it if you like football (in USA soccer). Rating in my opinion pure 10.

Victory over defeat

[margosanci · 10/10 · 10 August 2014]

At first I refuse to watch this movie. I wanted to save the impression about the story told in the "first Montevideo". No one could argue with that. But, then I saw the words "see you" in the movie's title, and I thought: that's reality calling all the visions, all the dreams to put up the fight with them. How long will the players stand for their team, how long will they truly play? When will they realize how big is that dream, how deceptive the illusions could be? Everybody knows that Yugoslav team didn't won the first World Cup, so they were defeated and somebody will say: they lost. So, their biggest dream didn't come true? How do we know that it was the biggest one? Maybe they've already accomplished that when they were chosen and came to Montevideo only to play football just for fun, for the love of the game... Is there some victory hidden behind the competitions, behind the money that tends to control all, behind the vanity... You'll never know if you refuse to watch, like I did, until now...

Not so good....

[jekp · 6 August 2014]

Well, I've seen this movie because it's about an event that happened in my country, (Uruguay) and am very fond of football. 1) It looks like if the championship took place anyplace, except in my country. To me it seems to be Mexico,not Uruguay at all. 2) I know the Estadio Centenario very well, it's a world football monument, and the capacity of the stadium wasn't as big as it seems in the picture,what is shown on the movie is the actual capacity, not the one when in was founded, in 1930. 3)A tremendous mistake : Remember it was 1930, and it's shown a plasma or LSD flat TV showing a game between Peñarol(Uruguay) and Santos(Brazil) that took place in 2011 and the famous Neymar was on it. 4) A don't complain about the plot , the actors, the director or the technical details of the film, but the errors are so big , that spoiled the whole thing .It would have been much better if the people involved in the movie would have taken more time to inform themselves of the country, the habits, (the Brazilian fans are shown as if they were Indians from the Amazon), the food we consume, etc. Ours is a beautiful country, why didn't they did it in situ ? Really disappointing

They deleted this review six times, do you know why?

[petarmatic · 8/10 · 22 August 2014]

Plot is excellent, and cinematography is beautiful as well as acting, it all brought me back to childhood when I watched beautiful ex Yugoslav films. What I did not like is two last lines of the film, which went like in Uruguay in the 1930 World Cup this was the biggest achievement by Serbian football. Because a year earlier Croatian members of the Yugoslav Parlament, Stjepan Radic and Djuro Basaricek were killed by a Serbian ultra nationalist Punisa Racic by the order of the Yugoslav King Alexander I, and Yugoslav football federation was moved from Zagreb to Belgrade by force. Because of those events non Serb footballers chose not to join Yugoslav squad and that squad was filled by the Serbs only. As such they went to Uruguay and achieved what they did. In the film in a short dialogue Pako character emhpasizes that. Since that team represented Kingdom of Yugoslavia the last line should be read It was one of the greatest achievement of the Yugoslav sport of all times. Otherwise I really enjoyed this film and I think it was made with warmth and love.

Brilliant

[nikolaperic-64869 · 10/10 · 3 June 2020]

Good historical story, very popular in Serbia, everyone liked it, nice story about football players and their lives.

10/10.

[cosmin742000 · 10/10 · 19 February 2022]

Without any doubt the best comedy ever. A movie with rafinate and non-rafinate humour, actualy with all kinds of humour..Also the best movie about soccer beside Messi. A movie speaked in serbian , croatian , english , spanish , french , romanian.portuguese but how IMDb it's an american site and americans know only english , they mentioned at languages just Serbian , english and spanish.

bad movie

[oordnaa · 2/10 · 6 April 2014]

Bad, bad movie! Lousy and inconsistent story, full of missing parts (f.e. what happened with Moša, why he "is not the same guy as he was", what happened to him on boat?).. Long story short, this movie is insult for intelligence (Tirke learned Spanish for one month on boat?!), because it has been represented as movie which will present TRUE story about what happened on the first world cup! It is kind of mix between some fairytale and Spanish/Turkish/Indian soap operas. For me, Bjelogrlić ruined his credibility earned with "Vratiće se rode". Unintelligent movie with unintelligent dialogs, unintelligent story, but, with fantastic marketing. Gave him 2 just because it is domestic movie, and it is about football, otherwise... 0 (zero)!

Good idea, terrible story, a wasted opportunity

[borivojeeskic · 3/10 · 3 July 2015]

Although the idea was good, directing was fine, and there were a few good actors, it's simply a bad movie.

It's way too long. Instead of 141 minutes, it would make much more sense to cut it to less than 100. It's too boring, it never ends, and I just wanted to go home and do anything else. But I could't, because I watched it on a bus. Which was terrifying.

And the story is terrible. It's not flowing, it doesn't make me want to know what will happen later in the movie. I also don't really care about the characters. Except the monkey. The monkey was cool.

Lots of random scenes, maybe one or two funny situations. Then there are a few heavy, thriller parts, that don't look like a part of the same movie. Some unnecessary drama.

Also, sometimes irritating music. Yes, violins are great, but that doesn't mean the audience wants to hear them every two minutes.

So, it's watchable, and visually is great. But too long, not believable, without real story.