paulclaassen I loved the different characters. There is nothing really spectacular about the film but it was nevertheless very enjoyable.

ma-cortes Offbeat crazy comedy with hilarious results but pretty embarrassing . Pedro Almodóvar brings us a very mixed bag of travellers in a life-threatening situation on board a plane flying to Mexico City. Their defenselessness in the face of danger provokes a general craziness . When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the greatest danger, which we carry within ourselves . Silly film full of bad taste , outlandish characters , embarrassing mood-pieces , fun scenes , filthy humor with continuous blow-jobs , burlesque and sense of style but not totally satisfactory , including conventional pitfalls . The picture deals with gay people , off-the-wall comedy , absurdities , mad inversions , and many other things . The movie is mediocre and turns out to be inferior to Almodovar's previous and subsequent entries . The result is undiluted absurd comedy , profanities , perverted sex with short , sharp images and a crazy strings of plots . It's a piquant look at flight attendants and pilots involving crew and passengers . There are many references to Pedro Almodóvar's universe throughout the film. The name of the plane is Chavela Blanca, in clear reference to Pedro's beloved singer and friend Chavela Vargas and to another of his most cherished friends, the late Blanca Sánchez and the air company Peninsula is shortened in the plane top wing as Pe, Penélope Cruz's renowned nickname. Nice interpretations by all star-studded cast as Javier Camera , Hugo Silva , Antonio de la Torre and full of familiar faces as Lola Dueñas as a sex-crazed medium and other delightfully played roles such as Cecilia Roth , Miguel Ángel Silvestre , Blanca Suárez , Susi Sánchez and Carmen Machi , among others . And three Hollywood/Spain super stars : Paz Vega , Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz . In fact , this movie marks Antonio Banderas's 7th collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz's 5th collaboration . However, this will be the first time they star in an Almodovar movie together. As usual in most of Pedro Almodóvar's movies, there is a small role for Agustín Almodóvar, his brother and producer of the film, who plays a tower controller at the landing airport at the end of the movie . Atmospheric musical score by Alberto Iglesias , Almodovar's ordinary ; including a known song by the Pointer Sisters adding an amusing choreography carried out by Raul Arévalo , Carlos Arévalo and Javier Camera . Colorful and luxurious cinematography by Jose Luis Alcaine . The motion picture was realized in his peculiar style by Pedro Almodovar ; he often uses symbolism and metaphorical techniques to portray circular story lines though here he directs a vulgar comedy . Almodovar directs throughout with splendid zip and he usually portrays strong female characters and transsexuals . His first feature film, Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980), was made in 16 mm and blown-up to 35 mm for public release . In 1987, he and his brother Agustín Almodóvar established their own production company : El Deseo, S. A. The "Almodóvar phenomenon" has reached all over the world , making his films very popular in many countries . Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodovar subsequently made successes such as Labyrinth of passions , Law of desire , Women Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown , Bad education , All about my mother , Talk to her , Broken embraces , The Skin I Live In and many others . The latest from acclaimed Spanish director , Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited (Los Amantes Pasajeros) is one of four films competing for the inaugural best European comedy honor during the upcoming 26th edition of the European Film Awards , getting some prizes .

lasttimeisaw Almodóvar's latest offering after his posh genre thriller THE SKIN I LIVE IN (2011, 7/10) is an outré farce which is evocative of his earlier output in the 80s, almost exclusively restrained inside a plane, more specifically, the cockpit and the business cabin, I'M SO EXCITED! is a hilarious parody of AIRPLANE! (1980, 6/10). We all know economy is depressing and life is governed by austerity measures in Spain nowadays, so it wouldn't be a more opportune time for a screwball comedy to satirize the circumstances and offer its audience tons of fun, Almodóvar is a dab hand to achieve this mission, the film not only potently leads us to break away from the grim reality for 90 minutes, but also conducts its cunning metaphors for the aftertaste if one is familiar with the social contexts in Spain. A plane from Madrid to Mexico City is hovering around for hours since one of its undercarriage malfunctions (thanks to Banderas and Cruz's cameo), it is waiting for an empty airfield runaway to execute emergency landing, passengers in the economy class are dozing off under the influence of medication, spiked into their beverage by the cabin crew in order not to cause chaos, while in the business cabin, a mélange of passengers are unleashed into their own frenzy. It is overtly the gayest movie in the school of Almodóvar since LAW OF DESIRE (1987, 7/10), the three air stewards Joserra, Fajas and Ulloa (Cámara, Areces and Arévalo) are all gay, and the pilot Álex (de la Torre) is a bisexual family man now in a relationship with Joserra, and the co-pilot (Silva) has his own sexual disorientation problem. The palette is a shade muter than one's general expectation of an Almodóvar comedy, but not the craziness, especially when some anal smuggled mescaline (cached by a newly-wed to spice up his honeymoon) is put to use, everyone starts to either confess or being ecstatically aroused, the high point is Lola Dueñas' Bruna, a psychic middle-aged virgin, foreshadows the "smell of death" trope, and the way of her quest to lose her virginity is a hoot. There are outside cabin scenes about the episode of Ricardo (Toledo), who is an actor and a passenger on board, he deserts his insane and suicidal girlfriend Alba (Vega) then by peer coincidence, contacts with another ex-girlfriend Rith (Suárez), it is a corny philander's introspection and remorse when he reaches hanging-by-a-thread moment. Cecilia Roth is Norma, a dominatrix whose self- acclaimed collection of sex tapes with many VIPs incurs a threat of her own life by an anonymous assassin (María Yazpik), last but not the least, Sr. Más (Luis Torrijo), a banker with criminal background tries to abscond abroad, finds his alienated daughter and decides to turn himself in to face the music. The gay trio's signposting dance routine of The Pointer Sisters' I'M SO EXCITED is simply priceless, apart from being a lightweight diversion, the movie implies many seedy business of the political and societal situations, and what's more important, it is a tenable fight-back to those who question Almodóvar's versatility and audacity, he still got it, one must admit.

westsideschl 1. If anyone finds this funny then they haven't grown out of potty humor and the same level sexual innuendo. 2. A storyline with no direction; just a patchwork of dialogue thrown together as filler between swigs of alcohol and pretend sex. 3. Cheap graphics representing a plane flying. Really cheap graphics during titling and credits. 4. How cheap? Cruz and Banderas appear for about 30 seconds at the beginning boringly haggling over some luggage falling off of a baggage cart. Symbolic of the intelligent writing to follow for the next 90 minutes. Also symbolic of the junk these two have signed-on for in the pursuit of money these past few years. 5. Some actors first learned and practiced their lines a few minutes before filming. 6. Next to Mexico and Bollywood for turning out the worst film/TV on Earth (all for squeezing every last cent off of the high illiteracy rates in those countries) Spanish studios are close behind.