I’m Going to Have a Good Time is a musical comedy so well thought out that what looks like a commercial family film of nothing more leads to a personal look at the 80’s when they were no longer the 80’s and a group with Huge commercial success, Hombres G, understood as Proust’s cupcake of the last throes of that decade. A film about friendship centered around a walkman and some cassettes that can move 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 mainstream response itself to algorithmically designed family films, a successful mix of the phenomenon I Going to EGB with values that can connect different generations. Behind this device, to the greater glory of the pop band, are David Serrano, screenwriter who played a before and after in the Spanish musical comedy, director and co-author of this film with Luz Cipriota, and producer Enrique López Lavigne, co-author of the cult film The Amazing World of Pocholo and Borjamari (2004), in the background of which beat the name of another superpop phenomenon, Mecano.
The charm of I’m going to have a good time works on several fronts: the cast; an environment full of nods to life in a provincial town, Valladolid; the well-orchestrated and integrated musical numbers, and a romantic comedy script with hints of Anglo-Saxon phenomena like Notting Hill. Peppered with popular expressions that can humorously travel through time – “Ciao, pescao”; “I’ll take her, vampire”; “Cool Hammer”; “Agur, Ben-Hur”…—, the film brings this period back to life (the caretaker at the main actors’ school is called Celedonio!), mainly thanks to a wonderfully fluid children’s casting. From Izan Fernández to Rodrigo Díaz, Michel Herráiz or that absolute insider tip called Rodrigo Gibaja. Without forgetting the teacher who embodies David Lorente (one of those who said “walking is a gerund”) or the well-known actors ((Raúl Arévalo, Dani Rovira…) who play adult children with purpose.
I’ll have a good time is sentimental in the best sense of the word. A film that makes the microcosm of a school and a gang the perfect reflection of a happy time that, like all of them, was also unhappy. Friendship, loss, abandonment… everything fits into a film that tells about it and much more to show how alive a toy is when it’s authentic.
I’ll have a good time
Address: David Serano.
Interpreter: Raúl Arévalo, Karla Souza, Izan Fernández, Renata Hermida Richards, Dani Rovira, Raúl Jiménez, Jorge Usón, Michel Herráiz.
Gender: musical comedy. Spain, 2022.
Duration: 100 minutes.
Premiere: 12.8.
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