Starring: Javier Cámara, Cecilia Roth, Lola Dueñas
A commercial passenger plane has taken off from Spain on its way to Mexico. An hour-and-a-half into the flight, the passengers slowly become aware that’s something is not right and the crew inform them that there’s been a mechanical failure that has left them still in Spain, circling in the air until they can make an emergency landing on a free runway. With nervous and eccentric passengers aboard it doesn’t take long for alcohol, sex, drugs and musical numbers to all become factors on this strange flight.
... A cross between Airplane! (1980) and The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert (1994), I’m So Excited! marks the return of Pedro Almodóvar, Spain’s most acclaimed modern film-maker to the comedies of his early work. Being given a wide release, little of the film is lost in translation largely owing to the universal themes of crime, sex, drugs etc. However, despite these usually heavy forms of subject matter the film is almost entirely without consequence. It’s fun, and often very daring (there’s no nudity in the film, but it still manages to be very sexually graphic through implicit imagery and dialogue.) The film has some real stand-out showstopping sequences (mostly the performance of the Pointer Sisters song that gives the film its English title, lip-synched start-to-finish by three of the plane’s stewards) but the film gets a little too heady and sex-obsessed for its own good, lurching at times towards overly-broad humour. People going to see the film may also be disappointed by the lack of Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz, Almodóvar’s two most internationally-famous recurring players; here, just turning in two film-opening cameos. Still, it’s fun, bouncy and very wild.
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