![]() It’s not just who’s going to ask who to the dance.” Like, oh wow, we were going to really act this week. “As a young actress, I was finally going to have something juicy. “We were going to explore something different on a Saturday morning show and we were going to go deep,” she recalls. But then she read the script for an episode titled “Jessie’s Song.” She knew instantly this one would be different. And she was fine with all the girls crushing on a cute substitute teacher at Bayside High School. It’s not like Elizabeth Berkley didn’t enjoy filming the Saved by the Bell episode in which Screech secretly records a slumber party to find out Kelly’s true feelings about Zack. They are very drunk and very camp and very sarky, but it isn't exactly the same thing.Time out. And yet the odd thing is that they don't seem to be all that excited. It's all watchable and pretty funny, and the big setpiece is the three wildly queeny stewards Joserra, Fajas (Carlos Areces) and Ulloa (Arévalo) going into a drug-fuelled song-and-dance routine: a rendering of the Pointer Sisters' I'm So Excited. In fact, the point seems only to be to usher in a plot turn in which further mobile communication is impossible, and passengers are forced to phone outside using the PA cabin handset so their conversations are embarrassingly audible to everybody else on board. And yet, disconcertingly, the action is not regularly interspersed with "outside" scenes that cast light on the passengers' situation. The exterior scenes in the city, and for that matter on the plane, are of course gorgeously shot by cinematographer José Luis Alcaine with those rich summery colours that, as in all Almodóvar's films, seem to hum and pop. A desperate mobile call to someone on the ground in Madrid while the plane circles Toledo cues a longish conventional sequence down on terra firma that demonstrates a tense emotional situation for one of the passengers: this part is structurally equivalent to the "flashback" section that Almodóvar generally puts into his films – though not in this one. #Im so excited movie#The movie is not, in fact, rigorously restricted to its single interior location. And Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz phone in a couple of cameos at the beginning of the film, playing a highly unlikely pair of ground crew, a married couple whose emotionally distracted state is to trigger the later crisis in the air. Lola Dueñas gives a rich, warm and likable performance as Bruna, the virginal young woman who claims to have second sight and detects the smell of death, worryingly, in certain areas of the plane. Cecilia Roth is a ferociously focused presence as Norma, a charismatic businesswoman in business class with a secret connection to the very highest in the land. It is more like some drawing-room comedy-farce in which the drawing room in question is big and fuselage-shaped, and the cockpit, where the big, secret issues must be bickeringly discussed, is akin to the kitchen where the host and his wife must frantically cover up the disasters about to befall their guests.Īlmodóvar deploys some of his traditional repertory casting: Javier Cámara (from Talk to Her and Bad Education) plays Joserra, the gay air steward, who nurses complex feelings for the captain, Àlex (Antonio de la Torre). This doesn't behave much like an aeroplane disaster film, spoof or otherwise. The fact of it being set on an aeroplane is somehow not very important. And might it be that, in some international hotel room, somewhere, Almodóvar once caught an episode of the David Walliams and Matt Lucas comedy docusoap Come Fly with Me? #Im so excited tv#In many ways, this movie resembles nothing so much as 90s BBC TV sitcom The High Life with Alan Cumming as the high-camp air steward Sebastian Flight. It could be that, like Woody Allen, Almodóvar has decided to ride a second autumnal wave of comedy and return to the wackiness of his youth. ![]() In the opening credits, for the first time I can remember, he announces himself with his first name as well as his last, as opposed to just using the single, legendary surname "Almodóvar" – perhaps signalling that he is lightening up, and we can all unbuckle our seat belts, bring down the tray-tables, have a drink and perhaps even an unthinkable cigarette. ![]()
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