I'm So Excited! (2013)
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A technical failure has endangered the lives of the people on board Peninsula Flight 2549. The pilots are striving, along with their colleagues in the Control Center, to find a solution. The flight attendants and the chief steward are atypical, baroque characters who, in the face of danger, try to forget their own personal problems and devote themselves body and soul to the task of making the flight as enjoyable as possible for the passengers, while they wait for a solution. Life in the clouds
Jun 28, 2013 Wide
Sony Pictures Classics
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With its sprawling satire and knockabout tone, 'I'm So Excited' is the closest Almodóvar has come in years to early romps like 'Labyrinth', 'Pepi, Luci, Bom' and 'What Have I Done to Deserve This?'
Top CriticA minor - but exuberantly funny - piece from the Spanish master.
Cruising at a stratospheric altitude of high camp, Pedro Almodóvar's I'm So Excited is a colourful aerial romp that recasts his native Spain's current economic woes as frantic farce... Sadly, it just isn't very funny.
It's broad, bawdy stuff, and more than a little retro too, to the point where the luggage isn't the only thing that feels Carry On ...
Almodóvar has made his country a little cocktail which toasts their woes, yet manages to make things seem a little brighter too.
I'm So Excited! is a slight, likable movie, beautifully designed and charmingly performed.
For all the high intentions, I'm So Excited comes across as minor Almodóvar. There are, of course, far worse things than that.
To help prevent a riot, the economy passengers are sent to the land of nod. So much for the idea of finding your inner self at moments of great danger!
Fans of more recent Almodovar films like The Skin I Live In or Volver should be warned about this one, because it harks back to his much cheesier 1980s films with its broad comedy, lurid production values and camp characters.
This feels like a film Almodóvar had to get out of his system - a kind of cinematic kidney stone - and your gut will twinge in sympathy.
Full of fizz, filth and fun, I'm So Excited! is like an '80s retro-blast. Its scattershot comedy may not impress latecomers to Almodóvar's career, but old-school fans will love it.
In a more or less wholly libertarian society of the kind we now have in the West, the very idea of camping it up like this seems unnecessary, therefore tiresome.
The things that qualify as 'awesome' in the world of Pedro Almodóvar boggle my mind.
Almodovar gleefully returns to the broad, colourful burlesque of his early work. Although, without the transgressive attitude and closeted context, this sexy satire is all froth and no balls.
There's no reason this couldnt be witty or amusing but Almodovars smutty, high-camp approach plays like Airplane with artistic pretensions and none of the laughs.
It makes for an urgent, clamorous, topically themed screen comedy, if not actually a good one.
Almodóvar's new film feels like a conscious attempt to recapture the spirit of his earlier comedic films.
Energetic, outrageously camp and frequently funny, Pedro Almodovar's latest film is a welcome throwback to the raucous comedies the director made in the 1980s.
An odd, gaudy comedy that's great fun, but certainly one to file under 'short haul'.
Almodóvar's intention is just to use it all to get a genial and good-natured comedy of sex airborne; this he does, and he makes it look easy.
If you think this sounds like early Almodóvar, you'd be right, and I'm So Excited recalls the director at his most fun, his most rebellious and his most absurd.
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Foreign Titles
- I'm So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros) (DE)
- I'm So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros) (UK)
