I'm So Excited! (2013)

This is How Movies Should Be Made

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

"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."

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.

A non-stop, camp, farce, comedy. The passengers and crew, on a plane whose landing gear is broken, realise they are stranded as they keep circling in the skies over Spain until an airport becomes available where they can attempt to land.We are introduced to an unlikely array of characters (a hit-man, fraudster, prostitute, 40 year old virgin amongst others) who engage in sex, drug taking and alcohol abuse. Not one of Almodovar's best farces (see Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)but definitely has his stamp. Depending on your sense of humour this could be a very enjoyable film.

In a flight from Spain to Mexico, the pilots and crew are bi-sexual or gay and all have sex problems. When they learn that the landing gear is stuck, they try to find an airport for an emergency landing. A few passengers discover that they may die and some of them contact their families; others have sex. "Los amantes pasajeros" is an unfunny and disappointing comedy by Pedro Almodóvar. The storyline is silly; the characters and non-likable and not funny; most of the jokes are about sex among gays. The cameo of Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz is limited to a couple of minutes only to give their names to the credits. The most impressive is that after 90 minutes running time, I was unable to laugh. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Os Amantes Passageiros" ("The Passengers Lovers")