I’m So Excited-2013
Director-Pedro Almodovar
Starring-Antonio de la Torre, Hugo Silva
Scott’s Review #25
Reviewed June 17, 2014
Grade: B-
The latest offering by superb Spanish director, Pedro Almodovar, who directed the brilliantly disturbing The Skin I Live In a few years ago, returns with a vast departure and delves into a campy, lighthearted, yarn about a group of passengers and crew aboard a troubled flight.
The group turns to booze and drugs to console themselves and a circus ensues. Someone had described this as the gay Airplane! and that is certainly fitting. Everyone on board is gay, bi-curious, or otherwise sexually confused and the one-liners keep coming.
The premise sounds hysterical, but sadly, the film did not live up to expectations.
FYI: I felt Airplane! was overrated.
Some funny moments, but the “over the top-ness” was too much to take remotely seriously and somehow did not hold my attention throughout.
Not Almodovar’s best work by a longshot.