The Almodóvar of I’m So Excited! is the throwback version. All candy colors and bubbly camp, Excited! promises naughty delight upon its opening scene, a tease of a cameo by Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz. Taking place almost exclusively in the business class of a damaged airplane circling as aimlessly as the plot, Excited!’s exaggerated characters guzzle booze and confess themselves to each other, eventually devolving into a drug-induced orgy.

There are glimmers, but nothing quite works. The jokes are tepid, and occasionally painfully out of touch. Three male stewards perform a flamboyant routine to the titular Pointer Sisters song because, you know, gay, and when a psychic virgin date-rapes a drugged-out kid in economy class, it’s meant to be taken as a quirky meet-cute. Fluffily pleasant, if difficult to invest in, it leaves its audience with a pat mess of sex and death, and the sense that Almodóvar would do best to move into his future. recommended