Álex de la Iglesia’s film is an intensely formalized mixture of farce and tragedy.
Álex de la Iglesia has a real flair for wild action sequences that remain exhilaratingly coherent and sensical.
Pedro Almodóvar’s diverting pop-art bauble firmly placing the “relief” in comic relief and the “cock” in cockpit.
The film’s colors are hornied, the score pure sitcom-tinkle, and the plot has the attention span of a telenovela.