Excited directed by Bruce Sweeney, a director who received an award for Live Bait, the first movie he entered into the festival in 1995.  Perhaps, the bar was too high for his following films.  The film is light and pleasant, despite the embarrassing undertone.  The story is about Kevin, a man who has a hypersensitive appendage.  In the first scene of the film he leaves a gift for a woman and she runs away from him, as fast as she can.  Immediately, he has the audience on his side through sympathy.  Excited is a well-played comedy that doesn't breach on the Judd Aptow-style comedy.  In that respect, I think Sweeney achieves comedy without stooping to the level of a low-class comedy.  This film has structure and purpose with a more serious message than 40 Year Old Virgin.  Although, 40 Year Old yielded some laughs, I have desire to own a copy of that film to watch again.  Excited is a film I could see myself watching again, for dynamic characters that are less extreme and more realistic.  Excited is a Canadian film. I couldn't see it bursting huge on the mainstream market, but for that reason we hold tight to them.  The crowd was also very distinctly Canadian, receiving an overwhelming response from the audience.  After showing the high quality Toronto short film directed by Don Owen of a man playing the song "Water is Wide", the crowd cheered and clapped.  There was a certain homely feeling to screening a Canadian film to a very distinct crowd.  This was the first film in the festival that I found people giving any sort of gratitude for the beautiful Toronto clips at the beginning.  It's a wonder that they are even preserved, and an even greater spectacle of their condition.  Excited was not my favourite Canadian made film I saw in the festival, it however brought in the finest audience.  There's something to be said about a premier on the last stretches of the festival.  Garnering less exposure to international audiences, Canadian pride was in full swing at this screening.  This film will probably never crack big internationally, but it is important that it is well-received by Canadian audiences to evoke pride in Canadian works and to continue to support unconventional Canadian films.