I'm So Excited! (2013)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 112
Fresh: 53 | Rotten: 59
Campy and proudly absurd, I'm So Excited! Pedro Almodóvar's return to light comedy isn't quite the successful homecoming that filmgoers might wish for.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 14
Campy and proudly absurd, I'm So Excited! Pedro Almodóvar's return to light comedy isn't quite the successful homecoming that filmgoers might wish for.
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Movie Info
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
Cast
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Antonio de la Torre
Alex Acero -
Hugo Silva
Benito Morón -
Miguel Ángel Silvest...
The Groom -
Javier Cámara
Joserra -
Carlos Areces
Fajas -
Raúl Arévalo
Ulloa -
Jose María Yazpik
Infante -
Lola Dueñas
Bruna -
Cecilia Roth
Norma -
Blanca Suárez
Ruth -
José Luis Torrijo
Mr. Más -
Laya Martí
The Bride -
Carmen Machi
Concierge -
Susi Sánchez
Alba's Mother -
Pepa Charro
Hostess Piluca -
Nasser Saleh
Passenger -
Guillermo Toledo
Ricardo Galán -
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All Critics (112) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (59)
Despite the film's playfulness, it's still quite clear that we're in the hands of a master who takes the work seriously, if not the material or his characters.
Top CriticA mescaline-alcohol-and-panic-fueled orgy of confessional dialogue, sex acts, arguments, confessional monologues, and more sex acts.
Too broad for the tarmac.
It's amusing fluff, but from an Oscar-winning dramatist, this return to comedy is a bit of a letdown.
To throw caution to the winds is one thing, but to jettison control of tone at the same time seems a liberty too far.
The party in the sky comes to represent Almodovar's faith in the power of imagination, which allows us to transcend even the most horrifying tragedies.
Think Flying High with a gay cabin crew and no laughs...The story has most of the plane's passengers rendered unconscious, presumably by showing I'm So Excited as the in-flight movie.
For a cinematic icon to get it so wrong, one has to assume it is deliberate; something to play with
Despite an over-weighted gay theme, there's a lot to like in this colourful Almodóvar blast of joie de vivre, as secrets are revealed, desires unleashed and the complexities of relationships are exposed
The setting acts as a bland backdrop without substance or thought. Worst of all, the dialogue feels horribly contrived, even lazy. A misguided misfire.
Disengaged silly spoof of those '70s disaster movies.
It's a sometimes pleasing, and often unsettling movie, proof that Almodovar still has a playful side, but let's hope he goes back to work soon.
This isn't just camp, it's existential camp -- or, more precisely, an acknowledgment that the camp impulse is one way of dealing with the absurdity of life. 'We're flying around aimlessly,' a man says, 'and we don't know where or how we're going to land.'
Daring though it is, it follows the same trajectory as the wounded plane aboard which the film is set. That is, it circles and circles but never really goes anywhere.
The film is a broad, absurd parody that plays like a gay-cabaret send-up of "The High and the Mighty."
Pedro Almodóvar crammed actors he's worked with over the years into a movie so wacky it defies analysis.
It's farcical, but not funny; sexualized but not sexy.
...an interesting diversion for Almodovar completists, yet hardly explains why he's so revered. It's a throwaway, a bawdy, tasteless lark from someone who should've gotten this stuff out of his system by now. Judging by these results, he did.
Even though I'm So Excited! doesn't soar, the film is a fun flight.
It's like a very horny, very gay parody of airplane-disaster movies ... without the laughs. I'm So Excited! neither lives up to its name nor its exclamation point.
[This is] Almodóvar for people who assume they can't get Almodóvar otherwise. It's Almodóvar for Target.
For those who enjoy bawdiness with their comedy, I'm So Excited! will be catnip. For those expecting subtitled sophistication, look elsewhere.
Almodóvar joins the mile-high club, setting his films' trademark sexcapades, overwrought telenovella plot twists and bubblegum-colored imagery aboard a doomed airliner.
Audience Reviews for I'm So Excited!
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Almodóvar describes it as "a light, very light comedy" - and that was it, under the master's directing - nothing more, nothing less. If you expect anything else, you will be disappointed! A story about love, sexuality, acceptance, joy, humanity in general, is told through bisexual pilots Benito and Alex, gay stewards Ulloa, Fajardo, and Joserra, and a plane full of bizarre characters. They are all in for the ride that could determine the rest of their lives and they all react the way they feel, they learned or frivolous, but very rarely the way we would expect!
The film was produced by the director's brother, Agustín Almodóvar, and he confirmed that Los amantes pasajeros had been sold in advance worldwide and that these pre-sales have completely funded the film, without any need for any financial contribution from the Spanish market. Which, gave the director a freedom to do most of the things the way he wanted, without worrying about the final cut. But, the result wasn't great as expected. Sometimes, though, we need movies like this... to relax us, to make fun of each other and make fun of others, society in general. If you admire the director, add it to your list, if you don't - skip it.
Super Reviewer
As the plane goes over Toledo due to a runway issue in Mexico, the folks in economy class are drugged while the business class passengers and flight crew are left to endure the craziness and hilarity. They include a world-weary dominatrix, a 40-something year old virgin wanting to bang one of the sleeping passengers, a bisexual pilot and his straight co-pilot, but who is likely actually gay. All of the actors are as charming as you'd expect and keep the laughs coming. It's a bit fluffy, almost to the point of evaporation, but anyone familiar with Almodovar's ouvre (from Women on The Verge... to Volver, to The Skin I Live In) knows he's a filmmaker worth following anywhere. Get excited!
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- Fliegende Liebende (DE)
- I'm So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros) (UK)
Spent on high altitudes, this thematic vacation of his takes us aboard a plane heading for Mexico, confronted by a grave (and potentially fatal) technical failure. In tense wait for a solution, the majority of the passengers are drugged to prevent an outbreak of panic.
Remaining in a more or less conscious state is a colorful group of passengers, along with a flamboyant trio of male flight attendants who - in order to keep the worries at bay - stir up a party 1980's-style. Booze, drugs and a libidinous atmosphere occupies the cabin; spiced up furthermore by a series of deep, personal confessions.
Cameos by old acquaintances like Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, elevates the enjoyment value, even if we're not talking any humor trip in first class here. Also familiar is the kitschy color palette - an aesthetic signature of Almodóvar's - as well as the saturated sex fixation, which we get to experience very visually with some fresh additions to the mile-high club. Not unlike the Spanish answer to Airplane!, but taken to even raunchier heights.
I'm So Excited! reads the English title of the film, snatched from The Pointer Sisters' old megahit. Those words may not be nearest in thought when describing my state of mind during the flight. Air bumps in the merriment can be held accountable for that. But amusing enough to keep the mood agreeable, as well as the eyes away from the emergency exists - absolutely.
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