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Kika
Nicholas
Andrea Caracortada
Ramón
Juana
Amparo
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Critic Reviews for Kika
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (6)
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Using his typical assortment of aggressive female characters, Almodovar spends more time on the fashions of his protagonists than on their souls.
August 16, 2017 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review… -
Kika is actually one of this film maker's more buoyant recent efforts, a sly, rambunctious satire that moves along merrily until it collapses -- as many Almodovar films finally do -- under the weight of its own clutter.
May 20, 2003 | Rating: 3/5 -
It doesn't matter that Kika doesn't make sense -- doesn't even try to make sense. It's just so much fun to watch.
January 1, 2000 | Full Review… -
A riot of colors, Kika is sometimes sick, sometimes playful, but consistently hilarious and entertaining in ways that few films have been lately.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review… -
Almodovar's central parody is strong enough to save this film from floundering too much or too often. It's daring and nasty, but rarely brilliant.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review… -
Something alarming has happened to Almodovar: He has become commonplace and predictable.
January 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Kika
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Oct 16, 2009A mixed success, "Kika" juggles an erratic batch of characters and barely keeps its balls in the air. It's so confused that even the central role is disputable -- is it Kika or her boyfriend Ramon? Perhaps writer/director Pedro Almodovar decided putting Kika's name in the title was a necessary clarification. Kika is an effervescent makeup artist who pretties up the dead for funerals. She is summoned to work on the recently departed Ramon ("He'll turn green soon...get rid of the pallor before we take him to the morgue") but, surprise! He's merely having a cataleptic seizure. After he revives, he and Kika begin living together. But she's also having a casual affair with his stepfather Nicholas. Who is suspected of killing Ramon's mother years ago, even though her death was ruled a suicide. Nicholas is also pursued by Andrea, a scar-faced tabloid reporter who dresses like a dominatrix and wears a ridiculous helmet rigged with a TV camera. To complicate matters, she is his ex-girlfriend and also Ramon's ex-psychologist. Meanwhile, Kika and Ramon have a hatchet-faced maid whose brother is a former porn actor newly escaped from jail. Wow. Not even Almodovar can give this mess a coherent dramatic shape, though he gives himself a break by writing the maid and her brother out of the story early (but not before using the latter for what could be the funniest rape scene in film history). Veronica Forque and Victoria Abril offer gutsy, uninhibited performances as the brazen Kika and Andrea, and Peter Coyote (Nicholas) gives Americans a familiar face to follow.Eric B Super Reviewer
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Aug 05, 2009Pointless. The trash being used to "make laugh". Stupid people, things and situations supposed to be funny. After half hour, I simply turned it off. What a waste of time! <br> <br>Rubia Super Reviewer
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Apr 16, 2009Very colourful, and very dark, but also very average for AlmodovarMarcus W Super Reviewer
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Aug 23, 2008Irreverent and hilarious, KIKA is Pedro Almodovar's craziest film. Back are the usual Almodovar elements: colors, dramedy, sexual deviation, murder. The film works thanks to the funny script by Pedro, and the amazing performance by Veronica Forqué as the title character. The rest of the cast is very good too: Peter Coyote, Rossy De Palma, Victoria Abril (in a marvelous role) and Àlex Casanovas.Fernando Rafael Q Super Reviewer
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