GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Robert J. Maxwell I kind of enjoyed it. Whatever else Almodòvar's movies may be, they're oddly amusing and always colorful, rather like the characters. Besides, it's always fun to hear people say "Barthelona" and "nosh." In this case we have a modern airliner of Global Circumcisional Airlines or whatever the phony name is and it's flying around in circles over Spain. The wheel bay "swallowed one of the chocks." I suspect the phrase may be part of a larger series of jokes in which various other things are swallowed, including cubes of mescaline that one of the passengers has stashed where the sun don't shine.There's not too much point in going through the plot because there is not much plot. The airplane flies in circles waiting for an airport that can accommodate the crippled machine and the first-class passengers exchange stories, insults, and precious bodily fluids. I didn't read anything much into the fact that everyone in economy class has been drugged and is fast asleep throughout the ordeal.Nobody seems particularly paralyzed by fear. One of the running gags is that the public telephone is befouled and everything that goes in or out is broadcast to the other passengers, so while a man is trying to mollify his wife or his mistress, and she hangs up, somebody shouts, "Call her back! She's waiting for you to call back!" Much of the humor emerges from the fact that the three male flight attendants are all gay, one of them worshiping some Hindu God or Goddess. The pilot is also bisexual and is making it with the copilot. Both are married. After a safe landing, the latter tells the former that both of their wives know about their husbands' bisexuality. The pilot is aghast but the first officer reassures him that the wives are getting it on with each other too -- "It's perfect!" The highlight of the movie is a scene in which the three gay flight attendants try to distract and entertain the passengers by staging a well-rehearsed dance to the Poynter Sisters' "I'm so excited." I didn't get excited but I laughed out loud.

MartinHafer Pedro Almodóvar has a strong tendency to make films that push the boundaries of conventional morality. His themes usually revolve around sex and through the course of most of his films, you come to realize that the convention looking folks in his movies are morally bankrupt hypocrites. In this sense, "I'm So Excited" is fairly typical of his films, though the style in which he makes these statements about human beings is unique to say the least.The film is set almost entirely on an airliner that might just be doomed. While the plane is supposed to cross the Atlantic to get to Mexico City, the plane just circles and circles and circles the airport in Toledo, Spain...waiting for the all clear to make a landing with broken landing gear. Through the course of this long wait, the very emotionally fragile and incompetent crew do a lot of unprofessional things...such as drugging all the passengers in Economy to shut them up, fighting about who has had sex with who as well as learning the odd back stories of the few passengers in Business class. Overall, they're all wackos to say the least...and, of course, moral hypocrites...doing and discussing a lot of behaviors (mostly sex acts) I'm not even allowed to mention on IMDb!This film earns an 8 mostly because it is so unique and the black humor is, at times, pretty funny. It's obviously not a film for kids, your mother or Father O'Malley if he happens to stop by...but it is fun...and shocking...like you'd expect an Almodóvar film to be.

rodymu I am a big fan of Pedro Almodovar but this movie was such a disappointment! After the first 10 minutes I knew this was not going to be a very good movie but I kept watching hoping for a positive change in the plot. Unfortunately that did not happen.Especially the gay stuff irritated me. Really not one single moment did I laugh.I do not know why Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas were contracted. They only appear for a few minutes. Maybe it was meant to motivate people to watch this movie?The only positive thing was the appearance of Blanca Suarez, she looks stunning. However it does not justify any time spent watching this movie so just skip it!

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.