View from the Top
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Movie Reviews of View from the Top
Movie Review: fast & easy
Summary: 5 Stars
Product came as listed, and took a reasonable amount of time to reach us. Would buy from this person again.Movie Review: Great
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this movie. I laughed and i cried and i just had a good time while watching it.Movie Review: Breezy, Lightweight 60's Throwback!
Summary: 4 Stars
VIEW FROM THE TOP, the story of a flight attendant wannabe (Gwyneth Paltrow) has such a '60s' feel that I thought I was watching a period piece...until I saw Paltrow and Christina Applegate in VERY skimpy bikinis, and knew the 60's were never THAT daring!Cheerfully lightweight and upbeat, VIEW could have been written for Reese Witherspoon, Hollywood's resident 'small-town girl makes good' actress. Paltrow, an actress of far greater range, seems overqualified for the role of a Silver Springs, Nevada girl, who, after her high school sweetheart dumps her, is inspired by a TV commercial to escape by becoming a stewardess (oops, I mean Flight Attendant...it's that 60's thing, again!) Winding up with a bush water airline flying drunks back and forth to Las Vegas, she bonds with ex-Hooters 'vet', Kelly Preston (agelessly beautiful, and as voluptuous as ever), and Applegate, a cute kleptomaniac. Despite meeting a law student on sabbatical (Mark Ruffalo) that she's attracted to, Paltrow convinces her friends to join her in interviewing for flight attendant jobs with the international airline her role model (Candice Bergen, playing a sympathetic character, for a change) flew for. The interviews are run by a cross-eyed and hilarious Mike Myers, who steals the film, every time he appears! Preston fails, but Paltrow and Applegate are accepted, and training begins...but when the final exam is given, despite Paltrow's intense studying, Applegate gets the choice assignment, and she ends up in Cleveland...where she again meets Ruffalo, who's decided to return to Law School...
Will Gwyneth allow herself to fall for the hunky Ruffalo? Will she, as Myers commands, wait a year and retest, again? Will she ever see Paris, her Flight Attendant dream destination? And just how did educationally-challenged Christina out-test her? All these questions WILL be answered when you buy this breezy but likable comedy, featuring cameos by Chad Everett, Stacey Dash, Jessica Capshaw, and Rob Lowe.
I liked the film, and think you'll get a kick out of it, too!
Movie Review: Gwyneth gets to be adorable without the English accent
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Movie Review: More Serious than Hilarious
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this movie to be more serious rather than funny. Maybe I couldn't see it from a humorous angle. But the movie was an overall good movie.
Donna Jenson, played by Gwenyth Paltrow, has dreamed of a better life for herself. She thought she was going to get the chance to leave her hometown with her first boyfriend, but he had no intention of taking her with him. He was involved with another co-worker and took her instead. With a stroke of luck, she and her two friends friends Christine Montgomery and Sherry (a short role for Kelly Preston)decide to get an education in the friendly skies.
Meeting Sally Weston brings sheer stroke of hope for Donna who looks up to her but she is thwarted again and working for a lesser airline. But on the flipside, she does find love with Ted Stewart, a law student who is family-oriented. The two fall in love. When her friend Christine arrives on their doorstep, she then questions how she got her job at Sally Weston's airline.
A chance again comes for Donna but it also means having to give up the man she loves. She doesn't want to get hurt again. But flying the friendly skies can be lonely for an airline stewardess and she soon wonders if she has made the right decision.
This movie is good on themes but the humor just isn't there. Candace Bergen looks very good for her age. She proves that you don't have to be relegated to playing roles that identify "old age". She stood out in that airline uniform. And Christina Applegate, who played the dumb blonde on "Married With Children" has come a long way. Despite the devious character she plays, she handles it very well.
Personally I felt that she should have pursued her dream of being a Weston stewardess but she could've maintained her romance with the aspiring lawyer. He's not so bad looking once you see him from an angle!