View from the Top

Rating:
Summary: anything lower than 1 star? PLEASE?
Review: why was this movie created???!! for the love of everything filmatic don't watch this movie!!11 THIS WAS WORSE THAN PIRATES OF CAREBIAN WHICH WAS BAD BUT NOT THAT BAD BUT ISN'T GOOD BUT IS BAD. gosh, save your deniro and watch deniro in a kewl movie like zoolander or sumthin cuz deniro be kewler dan shrek and gweneth paltroooow und christina applegate from al bundy's playhouse. DO NOT WATCH THIS WASTE OF 2 HOURS OF THE LIVES OF EVERYONE WHO IS REMOTELY FAMILIAR WITH THE EXISTANCE OF THIS MOVIE WHICH IS BAD AND IS BADDER THAN BAD WHICH WOULD MAKE IT BADADER WHICH IS NOT GOOD. BUY GREEN JELLY OR UHF CUZ WEERD ALLEN ROOOL.

Rating:
Summary: Shhh, don't tell anyone
Review: I read a review of this movie when it came to the theaters that just completely tore it apart from oepning frame to closing. Thus, I avoided seeing it for all of the right reasons. However, the genre of film is one of my boyfriend's favorites, and as a favor to him, rented this little movie for a quick Saturday afternoon's entertainment. What I found was a quirky, fun, funny movie that, if you don't take it all too seriously, you can seriously warm to.

Gwyneth Paltrow plays Donna, a girl with stars and the skies in her eyes. Donna longs for a better life than her small town girlhood in Silver Springs. Hooking up with a small commuter airline, Donna starts her career in the air. In one short but pivotal scene, she is dissed by a trio of snooty flight atttendants, which fires her upward. Soon, she moves up to a major airlines, but first, has to endure the training process, run by the ever funny Mike Meyers.

Complication besets complication, but no worries, this is a film whose plot is secondary to the likabillity of its characters. You know about the ending, but the time spent with these people is entertaining. Turning in great performances is the hugely underused Kelly Preston, Christina Applegate as a ditsy coworker, wonderful Candice Bergan as a flight attendant extraordinaire, and the lovable Mark Ruffalo, playing a has-it-together guy, finally.

Much disdain has been heaped on this movie, perhaps by people intending to take it much more seriously than was its intention. Citizen Kane its not, but a lighthearted time spent in the skies. As we follow Donna on her journey of self-revelation, we root for her and all of her friends as well. So sit back, make sure your tray table is locked, and this time, you don't have to locate your nearest exits, with a View from the Top.

Rating:
Summary: Wow
Review: Adorable Gwyneth Paltrow is a young ambitious girl whose dreams are to become a flight attendant and her instructor happens to be Mike Myers whose performance is great as in Austin Power movies.
The movie genre is "ALL-sorts", a drama, a comedy, a romance - and it is very enjoyable from the start to the end. So you really must watch it.

Highly Recommended

Rating:
Summary: Very bad, but Mike Meyers was hilarious
Review: I watched this film on tv very late at night while I was surfing channels. I'm very glad I didn't pay to rent this, it was horrible. Most of the jokes were not funny and were thrown in for cheap laughs. Also, Gwyneth Paltrow was a very poor choice for the lead role. I think Kate Hudson or Cameron Diaz would have been much better, however, I don't think even they could have saved this bad film. At times I wasn't sure if this was supposed to even be a comedy. In the beginning, it seemed like it was supposed to be funny that Paltrow's character wanted to be a stuartess, but then it's supposed to be serious. Although this movie was very bad, every scene with Mike Meyers was very funny. His character had a lazy eye and he had an erratic temper that often caused hilarious scenarios. If your a Meyers fan, you'd like him in this film, but you most likely will find this movie to be an un-funny chick-flick with bad writing and casting.

Rating:
Summary: So bad it's good...I think...
Review: This film wasn't realised in the UK (I think) so I had seen no trailers or promos for it. My mother simply brought home as a fun bit of fluff for a Saturday night, and that was pretty much what we got.
I was unable to work out whether the film was actually taking itself seriously, or whether it was a gigantic satire on the whole follow-your-dream/romantic comedy genre. At times it was really funny or enjoyably wacky - for instance, quite a few parts of the flight attendant training; Mike Myers's character, in general; the fight scene between Donna and Christina; but at other times it was sickly-sweet (nearly everything about following your dreams) or very, very sincere (Donna's relationship with Ted). So it was really hard to understand how you were meant to react.
Personally, I found the morals of the story cliched and irritating, and the Sally Weston character just another strong-mentor-person-thing; and Donna did come across as just a bit too smug/perfect at times. Also the plot was quite annoying, with characters fading out leaving you wondering what the point was of putting them in in the first place. I would have liked the movie better if it had been more focused on Donna's career and less on her romance, which was extremely predictable.
However, I'd recommend renting it if you're in the mood for something totally fluffy and silly; you like air hostesses in movies; you're a fan of Paltrow (who was very good) or Mike Myers; or you just want to see a movie that seems more than a little separated from reality...

Rating:
Summary: follow your dreams!
Review: Donna is a small-town girl with an unhappy home life in Nevada. She is working in the luggage department of a discount store (ironic as she has never been on a journey herself), dating an insensitive lug who dumps her on her birthday.

Sure she has hit rock-bottom, Donna sees an interview with Sally Weston (a very convincing Candice Bergen), another small-town girl who made it big as a flight attendant. Finally havign a dream that will get her out of her rut, Donna reads Sally's book and gets a job as a flight attendant at a little commuter airline. Here she makes two new friends and goes on her first flight (her freak-out scene is hysterical!)

Comedy aside, I liked seeing a woman reinvent herself instead of having a man do it for her, and that her mentor is another woman (Donna gets to meet Sally as well.) Moreover, watching Donna put her all into being the best in her class so she can land an assignment in New York is awesome. Of course, someone throws obstacles in her way, or the movie would be boring. But it is indeed a great film, and very empowering.

Rating:
Summary: amusing
Review: This was a very enjoyable film. Story of a "trailor trash" girl making it good. Did not like one cut out charecter though, the male flight attendant was foul. Very amusing otherwise and Mike Myers caused a few laughs.

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Rating:
Summary: Cute, Paltrow makes it watchable
Review: Great cast, the lovely Gwyneth Paltrow, cute premise, not such a hot script. In the hands of a less experienced and talented actress, this might not have been watchable. Though I am certain it falls far short of what it could have been, it is still ok to watch, it is funny at times, does not drag, and is not boring or offensive. This is due to the great talents of Miss Paltrow. She is great at comedy. I thought this movie was very cute, very funny, and I'd watch it again. It's nothing deep, but the supporting cast is good. If you watch it with no expectations, it will be fine. If you're expecting something really good, you'll be disappointed. It is not as bad as people here claim, this is a really funny and watchable movie, but it's nothing that sticks in your head 5 minutes after you see it, either. It's only about half as good as Shallow Hal, maybe not even half as good.

I always thought it might be fun to be a flight attendant, so this was a good fantasy movie for me as well.

Rating:
Summary: Possibly the worst movie this decade
Review: The last scene in this movie really sums up this cliched piece of rubbish. So predictable, so badly written, so not funny.

The people responsible for this (excluding the cast) should never be allowed within 50 feet of an undeveloped piece of celluloid again.

Rating:
Summary: better than the other reviews suggest! (Really 3 1/2 stars)
Review: I rented this movie despite having heard some very bad reviews and also knowing that it's stay in the cinemas here in Australia was very short... What I discovered was a movie (that despite its supposed endless re-editing) that was funny and heartwarming, and a movie that so long as your not in the mood for the pianist is a well acted little comedy. It's a nice pick me up in a world where not everything is always hunky-dory.
View from the Top is popcorn and nothing else, but that dosen't make it bad, it's just not a masterpiece, at least it's a nice bit of popcorn.