Cuarón's eye is much too bland to be actually seen as paternalistic, a formal approach that may even find a few moments of plastic beauty but is so passively cut-and-dried that the entire film seems to pass by unnoticed in its homogeneous boredom. Forgettable cinema, I didn't find this as offensive as most people I know, but I honestly can't remember being this unmoved or this disinterested by a film in quite a while.