I'm So Excited!
I'm So Excited!
R | 28 June 2013 (USA)
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Something has gone wrong with the landing gear of a plane en route from Madrid to Mexico City. The group of eccentric travelers on the flight, defenseless in the face of danger, indulge in colourful confessionals, while the outlandish crew attempts to find ways to entertain them.

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Colibel

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

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Nonureva

Really Surprised!

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Pluskylang

Great Film overall

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Casey Duggan

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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blanche-2

"I'm So Excited!" from 2013 is not Almodovar's best effort - it's as raunchy as it gets, and it seems like it's on the light side for him. It really isn't, if you understand Spanish politics.The plot concerns a flight from Madrid to Mexico with an economy class that's been drugged so they'll sleep through the flight and won't become restless, and a first class with just a few people in it. Those people consist of a dominatrix, a virgin psychic, a man escaping from bank fraud, an actor, a couple on their honeymoon, and a man who describes himself as being in the security business. They are attended to by three gay male flight attendants who at one point lypsync and dance to "I'm So Excited." They also pass out Valenciana cocktails with mescalin in them.It seems that the plane might not land - there's a problem with the landing gear and the pilot is frantically seeking an airport where he can make an emergency landing. Someone described this as a gay Airplane! and I suppose in a way it is. Almodovar I think was saying that the economy class (i.e., the poor) are kept unaware of circumstances. The wealthy people in first class are awake and, if not in control, at least they know what's going on.If you're not a fan of Almodovar, you will undoubtedly hate this. I liked it - I'm not one for raunchy, sexual humor -- but because I like Almodovar and his quirkiness, I put up with it. I have to say the guys' rendition of "I'm So Excited" was hilarious - I watched it a couple of times. Also, Miguel Angel Silvestre, one of my favorite actors, plays one of the honeymooners. Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz have cameos.Almodovar isn't for everyone, but he's an intelligent director with an offbeat sense of humor. If you're unfamiliar with him, I recommend you start with "Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" or "All About My Mother," or the wonderful "Volver."

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SnoopyStyle

Something is wrong with a flight traveling from Spain to Mexico. A flight attendant drugs everybody in Economy. The First Class passengers are complaining. The plane's landing gears have been tangled with a chock that didn't get cleared.Pedro Almodóvar may describe this as a very light comedy. I would describe it as a very stupid comedy. I wouldn't mind the stupidity if it doesn't take place on a plane. It's a very odd workplace to do a farce in the post 9/11 landscape. It's almost a spoof. I wonder if he took any inspiration from Airplane!. The point of that movie was to spoof disaster movies. I'm not sure what this is a spoof of in the modern context. Almodóvar veteran stars Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz make a short cameo. It's a tease like this movie is a tease of something better. This starts off weirdly with anybody coming into the cockpit. The humor is very broad. The characters are very silly. They don't work on a plane in today's world anymore.

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shawneofthedead

In recent years, acclaimed director Pedro Almodovar has turned his considerable skill and craft to fashioning magic out of melodrama; I'm So Excited! represents his return to the high camp and silliness of his earlier comedic output. Unfortunately, the final result is a mixed bag: it features moments so crazy that they approach the sublime, but there are also bits that are awkward and just don't work, however committed Almodovar and his cast - drawn from all stages of the director's fabled career - are to the concept. On a flight bound for Mexico, we meet the kooky cast of characters that make up Almodovar's boozy, drug-addled universe: a trio of flamboyant gay flight stewards - Joserra (Javier Cámara), Fajas (Carlos Areces) and Ulloa (Raúl Arévalo) - serve and imbibe alcohol in equal measure. All seems well as they entertain the first-class passengers and bait the co- captains, Alex (Antonio de la Torre) and Benito (Hugo Silva). But, when part of the aircraft's landing gear is damaged, the looming sceptre of death prompts passengers and crew alike to shed their inhibitions and secrets.In Spain, critics have lauded the film as a timely metaphor for the country, which is still struggling to get out from beneath a staggering weight of financial troubles. True enough, there's a hint of depth tucked within the raunchy jokes and alcohol fumes: Mr. Mas (José Luis Torrijo) is a crooked businessman who must decide between family and freedom, and his fellow first-class passengers include the haughty, demanding Norma (Cecilia Roth) and playboy actor Ricardo (Guillermo Toledo). Meanwhile, the entire economy section of the plane - read: the ordinary folk - has been taken out by the ridiculous shenanigans of the people in charge. But the metaphor remains too thin and fleeting to make much of an impact. Instead, I'm So Excited! busies itself with out-sized capers, best encapsulated in the hilarious song-and-dance routine that gives the film its English title: Joserra, Fajas and Ulloa's colourful attempt to lighten the mood, set to the three-part harmony of the Pointer Sisters.That high point aside, however, it's hard to tell whether to be amused or offended by the hijinks that take place onboard. After the three stewards cook up a heady concoction that plunges the entire first-class cabin into a brew of hormones and horniness, it's great fun to watch uptight family man Alex navigate his complicated relationship with the unfailingly honest Joserra. But self-professed psychic Bruna's adventure in the economy-class cabin might strike many as Almodovar taking it one risqué step too far.With this mile-high cocktail of sex and comedy, Almodovar clearly set out to shock as much as to entertain. He mixes edgy characters with outlandish situations, sometimes to wonderful effect. But, as the film unfolds, the cheerful, campy farce of it all slowly deflates, and it becomes clearer that his quirks and comedy have come chiefly at the expense of character and connection.

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Simone Gambirasio

This is not a drama, this is a comedy, so please don't compare this movie to other Almodovar dramas. Still, this movie has many issues. It doesn't have a clear message, it tries to entertain, that's all. Is a queer comedy, sometimes it's definitely too gross and stereotyped. I have to admit I laughed sometimes, but not too much. This is not a good movie for families and bigots, of course, but I don't consider myself a bigot at all... It also looks like a movie that speaks only to a gay audience: heterosexual people are quite inexistent or depicted like stupid or repressed. I know that gay characters have a weak presence in blockbuster comedies but please... a movie where straight people don't exist is quite stupid. It looks like a tiny planet born from the mind of an old sex-centric director. I'm not giving a good evaluation because entertaining doesn't necessarily mean that you can't give a message. This movie doesn't teach too much or, if it has a lesson, it's definitely a weak one.

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