I'm So Excited ***

A rare miss by Pedro Almodóvar, "I'm So Excited" doesn't get its story off the ground. It looks promising enough at the beginning: the aircraft is in trouble and must return to Madrid, so the flight attendants put most of the passengers to sleep and party with the pilots and the first class passengers, where pills, liquor, and secrets abound.

I liked the three main attendants, an energetic gay trio given to lip-synching drag style and bitchy put-downs. And the passengers headed to Mexico City are an interesting collection of entertainers, businessmen, and mysterious entrepreneurs. Surely there's a funny, sad, and true movie in there somewhere.

Alas, the magic of "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,""Talk to Her," and "Volver" never appears. There are interesting characters, incredible coincidences, and true confessions, but it's finally just a jumble of stories and over the top choreography by the enchanted fly boys that never comes together as a coherent movie.