View from the Top (2002)
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 123
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 106
Uneven in tone and badly edited, A View From the Top wastes the talents of its cast and condescends to its characters.
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 29
Uneven in tone and badly edited, A View From the Top wastes the talents of its cast and condescends to its characters.
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Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto directs this comic look at the world of flight attendants starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna, a small town Nevada woman who dreams of seeing the world by becoming a first class international stewardess. Lacking the requisite poise and class, Donna finds a mentor in retired trade veteran Sally (Candice Bergen), a wealthy, best-selling author who assists with advice and her considerable influence. Despite Sally's help, Donna finds the process of fulfilling her
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Cast
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Donna Jensen -
Mark Ruffalo
Ted -
Candice Bergen
Sally Weston -
Christina Applegate
Christine -
Mike Myers
John Whitney -
Kelly Preston
Sherry -
Joshua Malina
Randy -
Rob Lowe
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George Kennedy
Himself -
Jon Polito
Roy Roby -
Stephen Tobolowsky
Frank Thomas
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All Critics (130) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (109) | DVD (23)
A flat, superficial comedy that never establishes a tone.
Top CriticPaltrow cannot begin to save this unfunny flight attendant comedy that should have gone direct to video.
The characters have no wit or charm, the plot has no conflict or development, nothing happens for any reason other than script requirements.
It's just sweet and light, but it's got kind of giddy charm to it ...
Eventually, the exhaust roar of condescending affirmation drowns all else out.
If this is the View From the Top, I'd hate to see the View From the Bottom.
What was Gwyneth Paltrow thinking?
Miss Paltrow? We're gonna need that Oscar back.
[A]n airy bit of fluff, a soap bubble of a movie.
Even on DVD, you won't have to fasten your seatbelt for this box office dud.
Teeters on the edge of lightweight, bland fare more associated with what's on airline menus. But the cast adds flavor and energy to the otherwise unremarkable itinerary.
With the exception of Myers, it's not very funny; the romance is insipid; the plot is tedious; and the themes are redundant.
Not even cameos by Rob Lowe as a copilot, Chad Everett as Sally's Weston's husband, or George Kennedy as an airline passenger can rev up this plummeting plane wreck.
Anyone annoyed by the film's faux-feminist message should be equally annoyed by the interactive menus straining to give the fluffy, bare-bones features collected here an airport-themed context.
O filme pode até não ser uma obra-de-arte, mas está longe de ser o desastre que muitos anunciaram. Ao menos, ele diverte.
Audience Reviews for View from the Top
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Super Reviewer
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- Sally Weston: Paris. First Class. International, Donna say it.
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- Donna Jensen: Oh honey, can you believe it? A REAL business class! And guess what I get to do in half an hour. Bake cookies.
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- Christine: Yeah, I hear all those Europe guys are un-circumcised.
- Randy: Nope, not all.
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- Sally Weston: No matter where you're from, no matter who people think you are, you can be whatever you want. But you've gotta start right now.
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