A mediocre diversion -- a movie better watched at home where the remote control can be used (if necessary) to fast forward to the film's best part: the obligatory end credit outtakes.
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03/21/03
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... [More]
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Candice Bergen, Kelly Preston
Director: Bruno Barreto
Reviews for View from the Top
Corn slathered in liquid saccharine.
03/21/03
It catapults gender relations back into the primordial Father Knows Best or Leave It To Beaver era.
03/21/03
Given the weakness of the script, it's surprising how many top-flight performers participated.
03/21/03
Comedies don't come much flatter.
03/21/03
Talk about an uneventful flight.
03/21/03
Top CriticA predictable piffle of a movie that never comes close to the heights its talented cast promises.
03/21/03
This alleged comedy is almost completely laugh-free.
03/21/03
Paltrow is lovable in the right roles, and here she's joined by two others who are sunny on the screen: Candice Bergen, as the best-selling flight attendant who becomes her mentor, and Mark Ruffalo.
03/21/03
Top CriticWho on earth is this embarrassment -- easily the worst film of the year to date -- aimed at?
03/21/03
Somewhere in the midst of Mike Meyers' outrageously floaty eye is a grown up satire waiting to get out.
03/21/03
Even though there are funny people like Mike Myers making cameos (payback for Paltrow's brilliant cameo in "Goldmember") this comedy about a budding stewardess just doesn't take off.
03/21/03
View From the Top feels like a salvage job, as if Weinstein or somebody at Miramax knew they had a dog -- so they recut it and added scenes of Myers' wacky behavior.
03/21/03
[It’s] as if the script had either been sitting around for 40 years... or was written recently by someone whose entire experience of airline travel was gleaned from movies of the 1960s.
03/21/03
Though it starts out with a quirky sense of promise, this film about an ambitious stewardess never gets off the ground.
03/21/03
View From The Top isn't fit for takeoff.
03/21/03
Loses altitude faster than AMR stock.
03/21/03
bears all the tell-tale signs of a movie that's been put through the wringer: voice-over narration to cover choppy continuity; scenes that end abruptly; an end credit sequence containing scenes that didn't survive the final cut.
03/21/03
The one scene of interviews with aspiring stewardesses in last year's Catch Me If You Can is exponentially funnier than every little laugh in this entire movie all put together.
03/20/03
Even Mike Myers can't save this one...wait for it to hit cable.
03/20/03
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