Ghost Graduation

2012 [SPANISH]

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 62% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 3928 3.9K

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Plot summary

A teacher with paranormal abilities helps a group of ghosts graduate high school.

Director

Javier Ruiz Caldera Photo
Javier Ruiz Caldera

Top cast

Luis Varela Photo
Luis Varela as Psiquiatra muerto
Jaime Olías Photo
Jaime Olías as Jorge
Raúl Arévalo Photo
Raúl Arévalo as Modesto
Carlos Areces Photo
Carlos Areces as Otegui
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815.67 MB
1280*544
Spanish 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 3
1.64 GB
1920*816
Spanish 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 7 / 10

Fun and nutty comedy starred by a plethora of young actors playing weird characters

Amusing and funny picture starred by Raul Arévalo who along with are Imma Cuesta and Quim Gutiérrez are new kings of Spanish comedy . This is a fast crazy movie with lot of fun situations , antics , bemusement and with a bunch of very hilarious roles . This is another Spanish comedy romp , it is a bemusing story that contains humorous moments , entertainment , binge and involving a young literature teacher and his supernatural students who died by an unfortunate firing . The film starts in an opening and closing with a prom scene ; at the beginning we see a wallflower boy sitting at the edges of the crowd during a slow dance, soon the crowd parts, and he sees his dream girl, hair flowing in slow motion driven by some magical breeze , he reaches towards her, the two embrace, their orthodontically-augmented teeth clinking as they kiss , then cut to see that he's embracing nothing but air, with entire rows of fellow . As it deals with a teacher named Modesto (Raul Arévalo) with paranormal abilities . Modesto sees dead people and he has spent amount of money in psychiatrists . Regular visits to a psychiatrist only seem to make matters worse , not least because Modesto is distracted by his fantastic apparitions (Luis Varela) . He is fired from several schools , but his luck changes when he gets a job in Monforte High School . There Modesto helps a group of five ghosts graduate high school . They are the followings : Pinfloy (Javier Bódalo) , Ángela (Anna Castillo) , Dani (Alex Maruny), Jorge (Jaime Olías) and Mariví (Andrea Duro) . Meanwhile , Modesto falls in love for the school Principal (Alexandra Jimenez) . Hell is being stuck in high school, forever. Nice and uplifting Spanish romantic comedy with crazy events , amusement and absurd situations . This entertaining film packs amusement , fantastic events , slapstick , comical situations , tongue-in-cheek , surrealist comedy including conventional pitfalls and many other things . Sitting in a strange middle ground between the completely absurd and the stylishly cool . Ghost Graduation ('Promoción Fantasma') revisits the American high-school movies of the Eighties, emerging like a cross between Ghostbusters and The Breakfast Club with more than just a dance montage as a nod to the latter . This is a hilarious flick , surrealist , extreme spoof and gross-out but also is intelligent and bold . This fantasy film moves in fits and starts most of which would be desirable , with more traps the viewer resists any kind, and some moments of enjoyment and others quite a few ridiculous . The characters are quite odd , grotesque and rare and the film races on at incredible speed . Dirty humor is sometimes cheesy and gross-out with numerous naughty and picaresque situations such as sex jokes , bad taste and adult scenes , especially on his final part when Otegui/Carlos Areces appears at high school reunion and haunted by a ghost-boy he speaks abounding sexual references . My feelings are extremely mixed but I must admit there are things I haven't been able to stop laughing about ; however , it also contains uneven comedy , piggy humor , profanity and grossed themes . A few of the scenes are amusing , they elicit chuckles but no very enjoyable laughters . The films remarks are numerous and provide silly laughs taking bits here and there from American films such as ¨American pie¨, ¨Porkys¨ , ¨Ghost¨ , ¨Ghostbusters¨ and especially , an unabashed love letter to the cinema of John Hughes for good measure . Our humble, hangdog hero is Modesto well performed by Raúl Arévalo, a high school teacher plagued with the ability to see the dead , rather than realise his gift, he instead begins to worry that he's losing his mind . The picture provides loads of fun here and a passel of cameo appearances as Luis Varela ,Joaquín Reyes , Elena Irureta and Sílvia Abril . And appearance of young newcomers with much future such as Andrea Duro of Juan De Los Muertos and Aura Garrido of Ministerio Del Tiempo .Colorful and luxurious cinematography by Arnau Valls Colomer who has photographed successes as ¨Eva¨, "Here's the Deal" ,¨Three many weddings¨ , among others . Evocative musical score by Javier Rodero , including songs of the eighties sung by Mecano , Shakira , Radio Futura's ¨Enamorado De La Moda Juvenil¨ and particularly Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart . The motion picture was well directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera . He was born in Barcelona and is a good director and editor , he realized some Shorts and being expert on comedies , especially known for Spanish Movie (2009) , Promoción Fantasma (2012) and Tres Bodas De Mas or 3 many wedding (2013) . Furthermore , he is preparing Anacleto Agente Secreto (in post-production) and SuperLopez . The motion picture will appeal to lunatic humor and absurd comedy enthusiasts .
Reviewed by cattusstar 1 / 10

Warning a 10% spoiler before,and after on the first part to the teacher on the couch!

Boy is at the prom.Boy sees girl.Boy finds out he can see ghosts.Boy grows up to be a man is a teacher.Then he is on the couch.Then the counselor says"And the hole,my dear Modesto,is your anus)(Counselor says"How can I put this...? Your gay.)(Modesto says"I'm not gay.) (Counselor says"Sure you are. Repeat after me:)(Counselor says"I'm gay and there's no such thing as ghosts.")(I understood the not seeing the ghosts by the kids in the prom room.Why wouldn't they laugh?They don't see them.So they think he is making it up one interpetation.(The counselor does he have a thing for gays?Is he gay?Does he want to force his belief on another?)(For me it ruined it for me,and now the good reviews on the movie"Ghost Graduation)(It made me think the people who wrote the good reviews lied on saying"Good stuff about it.)(Can you bully another?Can you force your beliefs on another?)(So if I could give it less than one star I would.)
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