I'm So Excited! [DVD]

I absolutely love this movie. It’s funny but not in a demeaning way, brilliantly acted and brilliantly edited. It’s erotic but hilarious at the same time, in only a way that Pedro Almodovar can-do. I’ve already watched 15 times. I love this film!

Not the best Almodovar movie but still, this is fun and creative. Totally in line with his colorful universe.

It is a typical Almodovar multiplotted and multileveled drama/comedy.As always, the characters are hilarious, although he has never been able to match the hilarity of Women on a Verge (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de Panico)This is most welcome return to good Spanish Smart Comedy.Wacht it you will laugh!

What can I say about this movie...Just another Pedro Almodovar jem! Everything takes place in a flight going from Spain to the Americas. It is full of fun drama and antics that will have you laughing so hard in your seat. The "I'm So Excited" Lip-sync musical number had me tearing up from laughter. It really is another great Almodovar movie. Highly recommend it!

This is one of Almodovar's best, right after Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. The plot is bizarre, as usual in his films. The casting was perfect. as usual in his films. My only disappointment was that Carmen Maura was not in this film. I love her! But I can guarantee that you will have non-stop laughs with this movie.

I could not stop laughing at all the gay joke and innuendos. It was very witty and campy. I was thoroughly entertained.

First off, if you're Antonio Banderas and/or Penelope Cruz fans, you will be disappointed---the five minutes you see them at the beginning of the movie is all you'll see of them. That said, Banderas' character forgets to take the wheel chocks from the plane, and thus sets the plot in motion, as they get sucked up into the landing gear (not the engine, which would make more sense) wrecking the machinery, forcing the plane to fly a circle, as an available airport is located. From here on, it's all on a fairly cheap, if colorful, business class airplane set, and if that isn't enough, an entire cast of extras sleeps through the entire film, all of the coach section---female flight attendants included---having been drugged to avoid "economy class syndrome" which is never explained, but seems to have something to do with mass panic.Not a lot is explained up front (unless perhaps it's all taken care of in Spanish) but all is known by the end.To sum it up, the pilot and co-pilot are bi-sexual, or maybe the latter is closet gay... All the flight attendants in business are gay. Everyone else is straight. A virgin seer (experienced as a psychic), a high class dominatrix who thinks someone is trying to kill her; a corrupt contractor who is being blamed for the fiasco over the La Mancha airport (which in real life is a huge facility that has yet to open, no market being available for flights there) a TV or Movie star, with two female lives in tatters behind him; and a Mexican hit man.Since the plane can't land, and might crash and burn when, eventually, it does, everyone copes as best they can, mostly by drinking, smoking pot, and eventually, drinking buckets of Valencia Cocktail (a champagne based drink that includes gin, but in this version also comes with mescaline). Oh, I forgot, there's a hot married couple in business and once the Valencia cocktail starts going around, everyone gets real comfortable, and chummy and well, you'll see.Like most Almodovar films, this one is high camp with a certain gay quotient, although here the gay-o-rama is set fairly high. Most of the humor revolves around gay relationships between the crew, and gay sex, but, sex itself doesn't really happen---it's pantomimed, by the hetero set, but there's no nudity or even bare chests. As an Almodovar work, it recalls "Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown" but, sadly, isn't nearly as good. On the other hand, "Women..." isn't available to rent, buy or stream at the moment, either.So why isn't "Women..." available to rent or buy?

I totally LOVE Almodovar. The actors are superb, the photography and colors are great, the plot is interesting. However, it has scenes that are supposed to be funny but they are not b/c they are rapes (the husband that drugs his wife to have relations with her when she is drugged... or the woman that has s** with a passenger when he is having a dream). Obviously this is a personal opinion. Perhaps some people can take rape as funny but it's not my type of funny. Now, the flight attendants are excellent actors (specially the one that couldn't lie and the religious one). You fall in love with them.