'I'm going to have a good time': A super pop comedy

I'm Going to Have a Good Time

is a musical comedy so well concocted that what seems like a commercial family movie without more ends up leading to a personal look at the eighties when they were no longer the eighties and a group of enormous commercial success, Hombres G, understood as cupcake of Proust of the last throes of that decade.

A film about friendship around a

and some cassettes capable of moving even those of us who have never bought an album by David Summers' group.

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I'm going to have a good time

is a response from the

itself to family films designed by algorithm that works as a curious mix of the phenomenon

with values ​​capable of connecting different generations.

Behind this device, to the greater glory of the pop band, are David Serrano, screenwriter who set a before and after in the Spanish musical comedy, director and co-writer of this film with Luz Cipriota, and producer Enrique López Lavigne, co-author from the cult film

(2004), in the background of which beat the name of another superpop phenomenon, Mecano.

The charm of

works on several fronts: the cast and a setting full of nods to a provincial town, the well-orchestrated and integrated musical numbers and a romantic comedy script with echoes of Anglo-Saxon phenomena such as

but dialogued with the grace and rhythm typical of Castilian.

Sprinkled with popular expressions lost in time—”Ciao, pescao”;

"I'll take them, vampire";

"Cool mallet";

“Agur, Ben Hur”…—, the film is capable of reliving that time (the school porter's name is Celedonio!) thanks to a children's

that flows wonderfully.

From Izan Fernández to Rodrigo Díaz, Michel Herráiz or that absolute stealth called Rodrigo Gibaja.

I'm going to have a good time

is sentimental in the best sense of the word.

A film that turns the microcosm of a school into the perfect reflection of a time as happy as it is unhappy, like everyone else.

From the teacher who perfectly brings David Lorente to life (of those who used to say “walking, which is a gerund”) to the cast of famous actors (Raúl Arévalo, Dani Rovira…) who play the grown-up children.

Friendship, loss, abandonment, ... all this and much more can be contained in a toy when it is authentic.

I'm going to have a good time

Direction:

David Serrano.

Cast:

Raúl Arévalo, Karla Souza, Izan Fernández, Renata Hermida Richards, Dani Rovira, Raúl Jiménez, Jorge Usón, Michel Herráiz.

Genre:

musical comedy.

Spain, 2022.

Duration:

100 minutes. 

Premiere: August 12.

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