The experience of watching this movie is a lot like commercial air travel: the flight attendants try to make your experience as pleasant as possible, but it's still a long, dull ride in a small seat.
View from the Top (2003)
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Reviews Counted:122
Fresh:17
Rotten:105
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Uneven in tone and badly edited, A View From the Top wastes the talents of its cast and condescends to its characters.
Theatrical Release:Mar 21, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $15,512,221
Synopsis: This breezy comedy from director Bruno Barreto (FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER) stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna, a young woman who dreams of escape from her rural Nevada home town. Her life changes when she... This breezy comedy from director Bruno Barreto (FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER) stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna, a young woman who dreams of escape from her rural Nevada home town. Her life changes when she sees Sally Weston (Candice Bergen) on TV talking about her book, "My Life in the Sky," and her fabulous career traveling the world as a flight attendant. Soon, the plucky Donna has a job at a small Nevada airline that caters to gamblers and drunks and, along with fellow trainees Sherry (Kelly Preston) and Christine (Christina Applegate), dreams of working the international routes on a large airline. That opportunity arises when Royalty Airlines holds a job fair where the girls are drilled by Mike Myers' hilarious former airline attendant, John Whitney. Soon, Donna and Christine find themselves in training at Royalty's home base with the manic Whitney where the ambitious Donna makes it clear that she's headed for the international routes by acing all of Whitney's tests. However, Donna finds that success doesn't come without its pitfalls when she ends up stationed in Cleveland where she strikes up a romance while still dreaming about jetting around Europe as a first class flight attendant. [More]
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Candice Bergen, Kelly Preston
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Candice Bergen, Kelly Preston, Rob Lowe, Mark Ruffalo, Mike Myers
Director: Bruno Barreto
Director: Bruno Barreto
Screenwriter: Eric Wald
Producer: Brad Grey, Matthew Baer, Bobby Cohen
Studio: Miramax Films
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Sep 9, 2003
Reviews for View from the Top
There’s really nothing in any of it worth dwelling on, so flat is the writing, so plastic are the performances. . . as it flails for a substance that it will never achieve.
The characters have no wit or charm, the plot has no conflict or development, nothing happens for any reason other than script requirements.
Barreto concentrates on character development over cutesy shtick, and his cast rewards him with a fleet of charming performances.
It's just sweet and light, but it's got kind of giddy charm to it ...
The perfect kind of escapist movie to see in a time of war and terrorist attacks.
Mike Myers tries to save this “View…” but, to this task, even Austin Powers would fail.
This sweet little comedy is a coming-of-age, small-town-girl-makes-good saga. ... Rooting for an underdog that you expect will win is always satisfying even if the result is never really in doubt.
Even Paltrow seems out of place in View from the Top, and that's saying a lot.
The movie aspires to be nothing more than there. It filled me with inertia. The best thing I can say about it is that it has nice credits both at the beginning and at the end, the actors hit their marks and never make challenging decisions regard
The new Bruno Barreto film, “View from the Top,” is a light yet bruising comedy about flight attendants, which should stand as an immediate warning to them and also to anyone planning to fly in the coming weeks. Indeed, just try getting some warm nuts and
As involving as a pre-takeoff explanation of jetliner safety features.
We're supposed to cheer for her success, but she's shooting so far below her potential that it's depressing instead. That, and the huge lack of jokes.
There's much to cherish in this so-bad-it's-good movie, the sort that would have been right at home on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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