Kika

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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: This is a very funny movie. The characters are very rich. T
he actors and actresses does a great job. This is one fascinating movie appropriate for all ages. The interaction between all the characters are fantastic and very interesting. I highly recommended it.

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Summary: Very funny move
Review: This is a very funny movie. The characters are very rich. The actors and actresses does a great job. I highly recommended it.

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Summary: Very funny movie [5]
Review: This is a very funny movie. The characters are very rich. The actors and actresses does a great job. This is one fascinating movie appropriate for all ages. The interaction between all the characters are fantastic and very interesting. I highly recommended it.

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Summary: SIMPLY FASCINATING.....
Review: This is my personal favorite of Almodovar's films. Those unfamiliar with Almodovar's work should take heed...this is a totally off-the-wall adult film. He is famous for pushing the boundaries of taste and outrageousness to the extreme and beyond. However, his movies entertain nonetheless. "Kika" is a cosmotologist on a quest for love and happiness. The film chronicles her (mis)adventures and encounters with all sorts of people who either don't understand her or seek to use her. She ,like Lulu in "Pandora's Box", is a free spirit adrift in a sea of miscreants. Almodovar deftly blends slapstick and drama together with his trademark color motifs, bizarre costumes (by Gaultier), over-the-top dialogue and stock cast members to enliven a fairy tale that, to me, stands unique among his other films. Of course, without Veronica Forque as Kika there would be no film. She is a total delight from start to finish and carries a difficult film soley on her bravura performance and irrepressable personality. And don't miss Victoria Abril as a reporter with an unusual way of getting the scoop on film! There is much to relish here and "Kika" can be watched again and again and still remain fresh and entertaining. A must for Almodovar fans.

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Summary: fun,wicked entertaining but somehow lacking
Review: this is not the best almodovar film for sure,but still it is a very good film.
it is very entertaining ,fun, wicked, and has the usual social tabboos almodovar uses for his work ,which makes it very funny in a very dark way.
the characters are little bit more complex than almodovars first films ,and the plot can be a little tricky to follow but in fact that is what he wanted to do ,confuse the viewer with a very funny dark comedy that all of a sudden turns very dramatic,a crime,and then back to a comedy again! that difficulty to understand is what i think makes it entertaining because you dont loose your focus while watching it. but it also makes it somehow too pretentious and kinda "melrose place-ish".with almodovar's movies you know all the characters are standouts , but i specially enjoyed "cara cortada" a scarred reality show hostess ,clad in jean paul gaultier haute couture(you gotta see her outfits) who aparently "gets off" filming the most tragical,horrible and traumatic moments in other people's life to present them on her morbidly gross show.
another stanout is of course kika ,a very tacky looking airhead who is a beauty consultant that cheats on her lover with his stepfather and cant stop talking nonsense during the whole film!(thats fun to watch)
if your are fan of almodovar's work , you got to see kika ,because its defenately a step from his previous simple dark comedies to a more dramatic,complex and almost too pretentious for my taste latter work.
his best work in my opinion are his debut film "pepi ,luci,bom...",his 2nd film"labyrinth of passion" and "what have i done to deserve this".if you havent seen his work start from there.

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Summary: not perfect but not to be missed
Review: This is not the easiest film to understand. I think it makes sense if you see it as a transition film for Almodovar. In his earlier films he was so visually audacious that his content seemed secondary to his style, and even though his men and women had very dark desires Almodovars absurdist sensibility kept his films in the comic category. In Kika I think he is leaving behind that comic sensibility and digging deeper beneath that visual audacity and presenting his characters as people not just with absurd desires but with real lives and experiences which are not so easily overcome. perhaps the best character in Kika is Victoria Abril(with dark hair) who plays a tabloid journalist always on the prowl for the next big sex scandal breaking on the horizon. She is both literally and figuratively scarred from a failed love and seems to have gone over the edge. The only way she can get turned on now is by relishing in others tragedies. So of course she is attracted to the dark American writer(Coyote)who seems to leave a trail of dead bodies in his wake. The title character Kika (Veronica Forque) is a make-up artist who meets Coyote becomes his lover first and then his sons lover but she never leaves Coyote. She is not really the central character in this film so its odd that the film is titled Kika. but then the whole film is a little uncertain as to just what direction it should take. Almodovars seems to be experincing some creative indirection and it shows. This film has some of Almodovars bold visual trademark antics like outrageouly costumed and hyper sexual women but as the film progresses it becomes less and less like one of the older kind of Almodovar films and more and more like a new kind of Almodovar film which is to say this is a step toward a new kind of Almodovar film-- a Spanish noir,perhaps--which he will later perfect with the classic LIVE FLESH. In Kika he has not perfected his new style yet but if you are a filmgoer who likes to follow a filmakers progress this is a key film. Many of Almovodar bests films deal with women relating with women ( I would not call these films "noirs") but when he deals with the relation between the sexes he is evolving a style which derives from noir. Far from being a limit the genre seems to have liberated Almodovar from other kinds of constraints. In Kika he is struggling to free himself of some of his own cliches and the noir genre seems to have been just the thing to give his talents a new kind of focus. Live Flesh is his noir masterpiece but Kika was a key step in getting there.

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Summary: Will make you laugh and laugh
Review: This movie is hysterical! It made me laugh and laugh! It is truly Almodovar's very best! He is a brilliant director. The story is light and all the scenes and adventures the main character gets herself into are really outrageous! It does have lots of very adult situations! Highly recommended!