I'll back those comments.
I'm not sure that this is true, but if it is, couldn't it be something to do with the amount of exposure we get in Britain to American media, in contrast to the rarity of British media in the US?
Released in the UK today and seen this afternoon. A disappointment - melodramatic, as to be expected with Almodovar, but this time straight-faced without the camp humour that makes his often banal stuff tolerable.
Cole Porter
A coal porter*
Oliver Sachs
* "Now we're going to play a coal porter composition - that's not the Cole Porter, it's by a coal porter" (Ronnie Scott)