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Summary: A quirky, funny romp
Review: This is one of those "just for the fun of it" little quirky comedies that people enjoy watching on lonely Saturday nights. I am still waiting for Gwyneth Paltrow to disappoint me in a film. No, this is not an Oscar worthy performance. Yes, this is a light-hearted comedy with charm and laughs. If movies such as "That Thing You Do" and "Shallow Hal" appeal to you, then "View From the Top" just might provide an entertaining evening's diversion.
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Summary: worst movie of 2003!
Review: What was Gwyneth thinking? What was the studio thinking releasing this piece of garbage? How could the Oscar winner star in such a bad movie? Gwyneth just seems so bored & lifeless in this movie. She did a better job acting in "Bounce" or maybe its the director that needs to share the blame for this terrible flop?! The script is horrible and the characters are awful. Character's disappear after a few scenes and we never see them again like Kelly Preston and Rob Lowe's characters. Why did the filmmakers leave the viewers hanging like that? Bad script, horrible acting, very bad editting and what decade is this movie in? Is it present day or what? It feels very present day but very retro at the same time. Gwyneth's character can be a ditz. She dumps her boyfriend to go chase her dreams & then she later on tells her mentor why she dumped the guy. Then her mentor just tells her to call him up and get it together. Hello! I mean use your common sense! Why didn't the studio just go back & redo the whole movie? It would have been worth the time & money instead of churning out this flop.
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Summary: Great
Review: I loved this movie. I laughed and i cried and i just had a good time while watching it.
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Summary: View of the Slop
Review: Gwyneth Paltrow stars as Donna, a small-town girl who dreams of escaping the banality of rural living. Dumped by her boyfriend, Donna hooks up with a new bland guy and learns how be a stewardess. I found "View" to be a real let down. Gwyneth, was cute, Mike Myers was oddly endearing, but I HATED the premise, and the romance was just BOR-ring. I also hate, hate, hate stories where the heroine 'gives up her career' for a man. The authors tried to pull the impact of the 'self-sacrificing heroine stereotype,' by giving us a 'surprise' at the ending, but I'm not buying it. It came off WAY too contrived. Also, what with making her boyfriend a lawyer? Is it too much to let him remain a lifeguard, and let Paltrow make the bucks? This is the 21rst century after all. A disappointing movie which delivers drivel, instead of laughs, filled with annoying stereotypes and and questionable message. Ech...
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Summary: What was Gwenth thinking?
Review: Mindless is a word for this mess. No one will confuse this for Shakespeare in Love, that is for certain. That is not to say the movie was not without some moments. Mike Myers, proving he is truly one of the comedy greats of our time, steals the show here. Christana Applegate of TV's Jessie fame, also gives a solid performance. Perhaps this film will achieve cult status thanks to the prolonged scene featuring Ms. Paltrow in the pose position, waving her bare soles in front of the camera. The scene is not on par with Quentin Tarantino's portrayals of Bridget Fonda's feet in Jackie Brown, or Uma Thurman's soles in Kill Bill Vol 1., but it is high up there on the fetish charts. It isn't very much, for at least this film might be remembered for something.
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Summary: Gwyneth gets to be adorable without the English accent
Review: You keep wanting to dismiss "View from the Top" as a total fluff piece, but then something keeps happening to make you think that it is not that bad. After all, at the heart of this movie is Gwyneth Paltrow, and we might not really believe that she is a white trash trailer park girl, but we never forget this is Gwyneth Paltrow. More importantly, this is not Gwyneth Paltrow the drama queen, but one who gets to spend most of the film being adorable (without an English accent), and she can be pretty adorable (especially without an English accent). "View from the Top" walks a fine line, because on the one hand we have some over the top scenes courtesy of Mike Myers as Flight Attendant Guru John Whitney, Josh Malina as Randy Jones male Flight Attendant, and Rob Lowe as co-pilot Steve Bench. Then we get back to Gwyneth as Donna, the girl with a dream, and it is almost like being in another movie. So there is a comic side and a serious side to this movie, just like there is the career plot line and the romance plot line between Donna and Ted (Mark Ruffalo), and just like Donna has her good friend Sherry (Kelly Preston) and her not so good friend Christine (Christina Applegate). But the person who ends up being the lynch pin of this film is Donna's mentor and flight attendant godmother, Sally Weston, played by Candice Bergen. You keeping thinking Murphy Brown is going to make an appearance at any moment, but Sally Weston is exactly who she seems to be and as good as gold. She might be perky and the queen of stewardesses, but the lady is not stupid. You keep thinking this movie is going to turn into some sort of mindless romp about flight attendants, but it never sinks to that level. Be sure not to bail out before the credits, because in addition to the traditional outtakes there is a production number by the flight attendants of Royalty Airlines. The DVD has has a trio of short featurettes, the best of which is a short history of Flight Attendants, including the famous paper dresses.
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Summary: awful
Review: I rented this movie which was a bomb at the box office but since Gwyneth is such a big star it doesn't really matter now does it? What a horrible script! Who greenlighted this movie? Just because there is a top star starring in it that doesn't save it from a bad script. Its an inspiring story gone bad. The script is awful, the plot is horrible, and the acting is mediocre. Ick!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Gwyneth Paltrow, otherwise a fabulous actress, is completely wrong for her character, and for this film in general. The film is not as funny as I hoped it would be, or as funny as it could've been. The plot feels forced at times, and there seem to be a whole lot of 'discontinued characters,' making it a very unsatisfying story on the whole. If you stick around till the bloopers at the closing credit, you will find that many of the funnier, more interesting scenes have unfortunately and incomprehensibly been cut out from the final movie. A waste of time, and a waste of the actors, with Mike Myers being the only highlight here.
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Summary: A waste of a great cast.
Review: I had heard this movie was cut and recut before being released in theatres -- its release date kept being pushed back, which is never a good sign for a movie. But since I think Gwyneth Paltrow is a stellar actress, and it had a great supporting cast (Candace Bergen, Mike Myers, Christina Applegate, Kelly Preston, and Rob Lowe), I thought it was worth a rental. I mean, Gwyneth, she of Emma, Shakespeare in Love... why would she decide to star in a dog? Unfortunately, even Gwyneth can't lift this movie above its USA Network-like script. Small town girl makes good by wearing short skirts and a push-up bra. Thinks that her goal of getting out of Dodge and serving First Class passengers is more important than love, but of course, has an epiphany before the end. For one, the best actors were not included enough. Kelly Preston was awesome, but we needed some closure or at least an update on what happened to her character. Rob Lowe was in the movie for 1 scene! On the other hand, I'm slightly sick of Mike Myers' over the top persona. "The thing with the eye" was WAY overplayed and I cringed whenever he was on the screen. Mike, stick to Austin Powers -- please don't ruin any other movies for us. I'm also slightly suspicious that the DVD does not include any deleted scenes... man, were they that bad? Or maybe the movie was all over the place and they didn't include them because they had nothing to do with the movie as it turned out. Don't make the same mistake I did. Check out Sliding Doors with Gwynnie instead. A very cute movie, not predictable, and thank goodness, does NOT have Mike Myers.
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Summary: Film-Lite!
Review: Gwyneth Paltrow plays Donna, a poor girl from the boonies who longs for escape and adventure in "View From Above." She aspires to follow in the footsteps of her role model, and eventual mentor, (Candice Bergen), as an international flight attendant. With dreams of Paris and New York City dancing in her head, she enters Royalty Airlines' training school, run by a very funny Mike Myers. She proves to be a stellar student but runs into trouble with her double-dealing, kleptomaniac best friend.(Christina Applegate). Instead of Paris, Donna pulls Cleveland as a billet, and is saved from total despair by love interest, Mark Ruffalo.
This film is a harmless bit of fluff that is, at times, just zany enough to be fun. The story plays out like a camp fairy tale, happy ending and all. One of the best spots is the run of credits at the movie's end, juxtaposed over hilarious film clips that were cut from the unfinished product. I got pulled into watching this with my daughter, and it really wasn't bad. Cost of a DVD rental, $4.00. Cost of time spent snuggling with daughter - Priceless!
JANA
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