I kind of enjoyed it. Whatever else Almodòvar's movies may be, they're oddly amusing and always colorful, rather like the characters. Besides, it's always fun to hear people say "Barthelona" and "nosh."
In this case we have a modern airliner of Global Circumcisional Airlines or whatever the phony name is and it's flying around in circles over Spain. The wheel bay "swallowed one of the chocks." I suspect the phrase may be part of a larger series of jokes in which various other things are swallowed, including cubes of mescaline that one of the passengers has stashed where the sun don't shine.
There's not too much point in going through the plot because there is not much plot. The airplane flies in circles waiting for an airport that can accommodate the crippled machine and the first-class passengers exchange stories, insults, and precious bodily fluids. I didn't read anything much into the fact that everyone in economy class has been drugged and is fast asleep throughout the ordeal.
Nobody seems particularly paralyzed by fear. One of the running gags is that the public telephone is befouled and everything that goes in or out is broadcast to the other passengers, so while a man is trying to mollify his wife or his mistress, and she hangs up, somebody shouts, "Call her back! She's waiting for you to call back!" Much of the humor emerges from the fact that the three male flight attendants are all gay, one of them worshiping some Hindu God or Goddess. The pilot is also bisexual and is making it with the copilot. Both are married. After a safe landing, the latter tells the former that both of their wives know about their husbands' bisexuality. The pilot is aghast but the first officer reassures him that the wives are getting it on with each other too -- "It's perfect!" The highlight of the movie is a scene in which the three gay flight attendants try to distract and entertain the passengers by staging a well-rehearsed dance to the Poynter Sisters' "I'm so excited." I didn't get excited but I laughed out loud.
In this case we have a modern airliner of Global Circumcisional Airlines or whatever the phony name is and it's flying around in circles over Spain. The wheel bay "swallowed one of the chocks." I suspect the phrase may be part of a larger series of jokes in which various other things are swallowed, including cubes of mescaline that one of the passengers has stashed where the sun don't shine.
There's not too much point in going through the plot because there is not much plot. The airplane flies in circles waiting for an airport that can accommodate the crippled machine and the first-class passengers exchange stories, insults, and precious bodily fluids. I didn't read anything much into the fact that everyone in economy class has been drugged and is fast asleep throughout the ordeal.
Nobody seems particularly paralyzed by fear. One of the running gags is that the public telephone is befouled and everything that goes in or out is broadcast to the other passengers, so while a man is trying to mollify his wife or his mistress, and she hangs up, somebody shouts, "Call her back! She's waiting for you to call back!" Much of the humor emerges from the fact that the three male flight attendants are all gay, one of them worshiping some Hindu God or Goddess. The pilot is also bisexual and is making it with the copilot. Both are married. After a safe landing, the latter tells the former that both of their wives know about their husbands' bisexuality. The pilot is aghast but the first officer reassures him that the wives are getting it on with each other too -- "It's perfect!" The highlight of the movie is a scene in which the three gay flight attendants try to distract and entertain the passengers by staging a well-rehearsed dance to the Poynter Sisters' "I'm so excited." I didn't get excited but I laughed out loud.