I'm So Excited
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: June 28, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
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83
The PlaylistKatie WalshJun 16, 2013
While there’s drugs and sex and drinking and dancing, for sure, if one looks at I’m So Excited as a metaphor for the ills of society today and how we react to it, it becomes a much more poignant and biting satire of the state of our world, and how we as a people decide to react to it. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'HehirJun 27, 2013
Almodóvar isn’t just flashing back, retro-style, to the era of “Pepi, Luci, Bom” and “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” He’s also returning to a core principle of that era and of his work, which is that human sexuality, as much as it drives us crazy and makes us do stupid things, is also a force for the liberation of the human soul. Read full review
80
Time OutKeith UhlichJun 25, 2013
It’s high time Pedro had a lark. The buoyant and bawdy I’m So Excited plays like a to-hell-with-it-all riff from this seminal Spanish auteur, an excuse to gather his stock company for a breezy 90-minute party. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonBen WaltersMay 3, 2013
I’m So Excited is the closest Almodóvar has come in years to early romps like ‘Labyrinth’, ‘Pepi, Luci, Bom’ and ‘What Have I Done to Deserve This?’ Read full review
80
VarietyJonathan HollandMar 8, 2013
Longtime Pedro Almodovar followers who have secretly been hankering for a return to the broad, transgressive comedy of his early work will be thrilled by I’m So Excited, a hugely entertaining, feelgood celebration of human sexuality that unfolds as a cathartic experience for characters, audiences and helmer alike. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesBruce IngramJul 3, 2013
I’m So Excited! is random, episodic and essentially meaningless, but it’s also a hoot. And if that’s all you’re looking for, you might as well get it from the master. Read full review
70
The DissolveKeith PhippsJul 10, 2013
It’s light and loose in ways that Almodóvar hasn’t let himself be in decades. Unsurprisingly, it’s also a lot of fun, a relentlessly entertaining lark that, like its setting, soars into the clouds, then discovers it doesn’t really have a way to get down. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyJun 27, 2013
I'm So Excited! will not stand as one of Almodóvar's defining works. But for some completely frivolous, naughty nonsense, it may be just the ticket. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJun 27, 2013
I just can't hide my disappointment, though, that the movie doesn't sustain anything like the brilliance of its best scenes, or even the promise of its preface. Read full review
69
Film.comJordan HoffmanJun 25, 2013
First and foremost I’m So Excited! is late night cabaret – funny, filthy and more than a little bit sloshed. Read full review
67
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanAug 1, 2013
Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar crammed actors he’s worked with over the years into a movie so wacky it defies analysis. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJul 24, 2013
Even though I’m So Excited! doesn’t soar, the film is a fun flight. Maybe it needs a central character in whom the audience can invest themselves instead of flitting among a rogues’ gallery of kooky archetypes. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergJun 26, 2013
After establishing a jaunty tone with its candy-colored, Saul Bass–style opening credits, the film racks up a high strain-to-laugh ratio; there’s a sense Almodóvar can’t quite keep track of all his gags. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJun 26, 2013
The actors are charming, but the movie is like a helium balloon with a leak in it. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJul 25, 2013
It’s amusing fluff, but from an Oscar-winning dramatist, this return to comedy is a bit of a letdown. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrJul 16, 2013
I’m So Excited! is probably its director’s most forgettable work. But it has its trashy pleasures, and it beats an in-flight movie — the one place you can bet it will never be seen. Read full review
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Slant MagazineNick McCarthyJun 24, 2013
Pedro Almodóvar's diverting pop-art bauble firmly placing the "relief" in comic relief and the "cock" in cockpit. Read full review
60
SlateDana StevensJun 28, 2013
Nevertheless, I’m So Excited (in Spanish, the title is Los amantes pasajeros, meaning both “the fleeting lovers” and “the passenger lovers”) looks fabulous, talks dirty, and sometimes makes you laugh, which is really all you can ask of a fleeting lover. Read full review
60
NPRElla TaylorJun 27, 2013
Almodovar is in party mode here, and if you liked his 1990 comedy "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" you'll probably love I'm So Excited! for its candied pastels and its impishly clever design, which transforms the plane into a theater and its galley into a staging area for those three theatrical stewards. Read full review
60
Village VoiceZachary WigonJun 25, 2013
I'm So Excited! is characterized by a distinct brand of unsuccessful yet ambitious storytelling, the kind often found in minor works by major masters. Read full review
60
EmpireDavid HughesMay 3, 2013
Whether or not the metaphorical aspects excite you, an unshakeable tolerance for high camp and lowbrow humour may be required to fully appreciate Almodóvar’s broad, bawdy comedy — even for fans of his early, funny films. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 3, 2013
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. Read full review
60
Total FilmJames MottramMay 3, 2013
Full of fizz, filth and fun, I’m So Excited! is like an ’80s retro-blast. Its scattershot comedy may not impress latecomers to Almodóvar’s career, but old-school fans will love it. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianMarc MohanJul 25, 2013
The movie's fast pace, and the three gleeful central performances, keep I'm So Excited! mostly painless. But the rest of it has a whiff of the sort of desperation that can make an exclamation point in a title seem like a good idea. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyJul 5, 2013
Exuberantly campy. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJun 28, 2013
This farce set mostly aboard a transatlantic flight stuck in midair never launches. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comMichal OleszczykJun 28, 2013
A trip recommended strictly for Almodóvar's hard-core fans. Throughout the movie, I wished not so much for the plane to land, as for the movie to finally take off. Read full review
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USA TodayClaudia PuigJun 27, 2013
While the plot strives to be a raunchy-clever sex farce, it feels more like a leaden repurposing of Airplane with drunken pilots, mile-high dalliances and dancing flight attendants. Read full review
42
IndieWireEric KohnJun 14, 2013
A gleefully over-the-top celebration of silliness too in love with its outrageous characters and premise to make them gel. Scene after scene features a self-satisfied kookiness akin to spending time with a terrible comic unwilling to give up the mic. Read full review
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New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAug 1, 2013
It's pretty obvious that Almodovar at least was having fun making I'm So Excited. Ditto for his actors, who admirably go all-in for these roles. I'm glad they're having a good time. After all, somebody has to find a reason get excited about I'm So Excited. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaJul 11, 2013
The gags are stale, the characters uninvolving and bits meant to titillate don’t. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 27, 2013
The journey generally drags because the spinning characters, with their tired jokes and familiar melodramas, soon feel so mechanical, like the automated parts in an Almodóvar machine. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 3, 2013
I’m So Excited! is vertiginously disappointing in the way only bad films from great filmmakers can be. Read full review
38
New York PostLou LumenickJun 28, 2013
A rare dud from great Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, I’m So Excited! is a campy, sex-obsessed spoof of airborne-disaster movies that never really gets off the ground. Read full review
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Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJul 18, 2013
The times have caught up with Almodóvar, who is now 63: He thinks he’s still pushing the envelope, but he comes off as old-fashioned and outdated. Read full review
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Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJul 5, 2013
Despite its plentiful and playful sexuality, this dose of Spanish fly is anything but exciting. Read full review
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