Kiki, el amor se hace

It took me quite a while to realise that this is a remake of The Little Death, an Australian film that I had seen just a year or so ago. That's how forgettable the original is. I avoid remakes like the plague, but this one caught me by surprise. I watched it until the end, fairly entertained, whereas the original quickly bored me.

Perhaps this is because The Little Death tried to be edgy and failed, when Kiki feels more natural, relaxed, and cute. Perhaps the Spanish acting is better, but I'm not going to rewatch the original to ascertain.

Anyway, it's still not good enough to recommend warmly, although it's possible that I would have rated it 1 point higher if it was not déjà vu. It didn't make me laugh, but it did make me smile plenty.

After watching the original a while back, it faded from my memory fast, which will not happen with Kiki. The main difference is the direction & far superior performances.

The exiting, direction and photography is fresh and colorful, vicvdly showing a contemporary Spanish summer.

The actors are actually good, which is always refreshing in a comedy, and the scrupt is actually satisfying, with very good jokes spread throughout (the deaf girl story).

What is apparent is that some segments and stories are simply much better than the rest, and elevate the movie (think the one starring the director), while some drag and simply detract from the movie. However it's still a fun romp all around.

Liked: -specific scenes, such as the therapist scene (feels like straight out of a Woody Allen scene) and the sex club scene -some of the comedy -the actors

Disliked: - some of the stories and their pacing -some of the dialogue

Sometimes you see a creative or a different perspective to the same movie...that may be acceptable. However, this movie has bluntly copied, 1 to 1, the Australian movie "The Little Death" (2014). At least they should have been fair and use the same name. For honest disclosure - if you haven't watch the Australian version (that to my taste it's better than this one), this movie is quite enjoyable. It will only be disappointing if you watched the other version.

I very rarely write reviews here in IMDb, but for this title I really felt compelled. Hope this is useful for the community.

Kiki is a remake of a comedy released only 2 years before called The Little Death, which was written and directed by Australian Josh Lawson.

I think that remakes are a delicate thing. A director must have a very powerful reason to remake a movie, and to do it "because I liked it and I wanted to do it myself" isn't a good enough reason for me. There are way too many good untold stories to be told to waste money and talent re-telling stories that were told yesterday, just for the sake of it.

The Little Death is an amazing movie. It's light, intelligent, subtle, funny, well written. It's the kind of movie that leaves a smile on your face for a long time. It also has in my opinion one of the funniest scenes on the history of the cinema - and by reading reviews and comments I noticed that this opinion is shared by many people.

Unfortunately Kiki couldn't manage to improve it at all. In fact what it did was to make it vulgar. Kiki is just full of fowl language. The smart dialogues and the innuendo present in the first movie became a stream of f-words, swearing, in-your-face jokes that simply didn't work for me. The movies aren't identical. Kiki does throw some 10-15% of new or original elements into the plot, but these are the weakest parts of the movie. They are not funny or smart, and sometimes they're plain gross.

When I consider what Kiki made with the original movie, I can only feel that The Little Death vs Kiki is like Woody Allen vs. Eddie Murphy. It's Charlie Chaplin vs Charlie Sheen. It's intelligent vs. in-your-face humour. That's what Kiki managed to put on top of Lawson's story. All the cleverness you'll find within Kiki (and I'm not saying there's none) came from Lawson's script. The original elements... they're just weak.

In Kiki the acting is inferior, the way the stories are weaved is much less interesting. The casting is way, way inferior. Lawson managed to create a magic chemistry with his casting that's nowhere to be found in Kiki. Not by a long shot.

Kiki is not a bad movie in itself. And it's very beautiful visually. But when a movie is a remake, comparing it to the original one is something that's unavoidable. And Kiki failed to improve The Little Death in any sense.

My suggestion: if you haven't seen any of them, watch The Little Death first! If you watch Kiki first, it'll ruin the novelty and the joy of watching the - much superior - original title.

Excellent, a creative and fun way to talk about sex and fetishes, mostly from the female point of view, very interesting, comical, dramatic, exaggerated, but true, the construction of the characters very realistic, we feel an integral part, I fell in love, I fell I identified, cute...