Baggage Claim Reviews
Top CriticA romantic comedy so light and brainless you almost expect it to float away.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Nothing in this movie would actually happen, so what's irritating is that it presents itself as a savvy, "Am I right, ladies?" dating commentary.
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| Original Score: 1/4
"Baggage Claim" is so archaic in its depiction of feminine self-worth-and, frankly, so insulting-it's amazing that it's coming out in 2013, not 1963.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
A painfully predictable romance, and a terribly unfunny comedy.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
A shrill, embarrassing comedy that insults the female audience for which it is intended.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Paula Patton puts on the well-worn shoes of Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts, ending up with a predictable vehicle perhaps best left in lost and found.
It would have worked better if the silly premise had been played for farcical satire, rather than following the cookie-cutter rules of the romantic comedy playbook.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Convoluted, predictable, and mostly unfunny ...
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Predictability and clichés get in the way of comedy here, especially with a lead character who rarely comes across as more than blandly sweet.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Baggage Claim is the lost luggage of rom-coms.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Benign but hopelessly dumb, "Baggage Claim" tries to spin the staples of romantic comedy into a mad tea party (its perfect suitor is named Mr. Wright), but lacks the energy and edge.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Glossy, flossy and blithely secure in its own cheerfully fake worldview, "Baggage Claim" bypasses the intellect entirely, happy to satisfy on a silly, screwball, wish-fulfillment level.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The results are so forgettable - and, yes, fake - it hardly seems worth the effort required to criticize them.
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| Original Score: 2/5
There's little chance of finding realism or romance, but the laughs are there.
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| Original Score: 6.6/10
Takes the bold position that women aren't truly fulfilled unless they're on the arm of a good husband, a notion that's been ridiculous since cavemen stopped dragging women around by the hair.
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| Original Score: 2/5
For a chick flick that meets the first two criteria of the Bechdel Test (it has at least two women who talk to each other), "Baggage Claim" fails the third (about something besides a man) big time.
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| Original Score: 2/5
[A] clichéd romantic comedy by writer-director David E. Talbert.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Baggage Claim is almost masochistically cheesy, with zero surprise. But Patton glides through it like Jennifer Aniston with a touch of Audrey Hepburn.
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| Original Score: C+
Talbert's directing is on par with a prescription-drug commercial ...
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| Original Score: 2/5
Enough to make Black Jesus weep in despair at the failure of filmmaking fundamentals.
Painfully unfunny and entirely unromantic, "Baggage Claim" offers a woefully outdated look at the challenges of finding true love, boosted from mediocrity only occasionally by a handful of supporting performances.
Centering on a desperate-to-wed flight attendant, this rom-com gets little mileage from its harebrained premise.
Talbert has clearly studied what makes similar films click, but instead of finding a fresh spin on old cliches, he merely repeats them.
