This blog has something of a precedent of calling out sickeningly obvious wordplay in film criticism (see here, and here, and also here), but I must say, the film criticism community has come out shining today in reviewing Pedro Almodovar’s smutty airplane-based comedy I’m So Excited. It may be Almodovar’s first flop in years, but if the only positive to come out of the enterprise is that it yielded some sparkling airline-based punnery, then it will not have been for naught. Here are some of my favourites:
“Trousersnakes on a plane.” – Ryan Gilbey, New Statesman
“Certainly one to file under ‘short haul’.” – David Jenkins, Little White Lies
“Giving a whole new meaning to the word ‘cockpit’.” – Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
“A throwaway airborne farce that never really gets off the ground.” – Alex Dymoke, City AM
“Welcome to Pedro Almodóvar’s economy package deal to Spain.” – Kate Muir, The Times
And the winner by a runaway:
“It’s an extended skit on the various financial and social crises currently unfolding in Almodóvar’s home country: in short, the reign in Spain falls, mainly on the plane.” – Robbie Collin, The Telegraph
*slow clap*
The Nuge. 