I’m So Excited is a silly romp from Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. After mastering intense dramas (Talk to Her, Bad Education and Broken Embraces), Almodovar returns to his early success (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) with this over-the-top sex comedy.
When the landing gear malfunctions on a flight from Madrid to Mexico City, the flight crew prepares for an emergency landing in Spain by dosing the coach passengers with a muscle relaxant. The pilots, flight stewards and business class passengers self-medicate their nerves with lots of drugs and have a lot of sex with each other. The all-gay stewards perform a hilariously choreographed lip sync to the Pointer Sisters’ I’m So Excited. The sex and drugs have less shock value than in Almodovar’s comedies of the 1980s and early 1990s. It’s all just good dirty fun.
The cast includes veterans of many Almodovar films, including Javier Cámara of Talk to Her and Bad Education, obviously enjoying himself here with an uncharacteristically daffy performance.