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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Miramax Films
Salesrank: 11154
Released: September 9, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Academy Award(R)-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, Best Actress, 1998; SHALLOW HAL) stars in this hilarious comedy hit about a small-town girl who's about to get a taste of the big-time world! No one thought Donna (Paltrow) would go very far. But when she sets her sights on becoming a first-class international flight attendant, Donna throws caution to the wind and takes off in pursuit of her dream! The ride is anything but smooth, however, and Donna's laugh-packed journey of a lifetime is rocked by more turbulence than she bargained for! Also starring Christina Applegate (TV's MARRIED WITH CHILDREN), Rob Lowe (AUSTIN POWERS Trilogy, TOMMY BOY), Kelly Preston (WHAT A GIRL WANTS, JERRY MAGUIRE), and Candice Bergen (SWEET HOME ALAMBAMA, MISS CONGENIALITY), this charmingly funny treat will send your spirits soaring!
Description of View from the Top:
An ingeniously campy and enormously entertaining piece of fluff, View from the Top stars the impossibly lithe Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna, a white-trash girl with dreams of escaping her dead-end life by becoming an international flight attendant. Her destiny is complicated by a sweet guy (Mark Ruffalo) who just wants to live with his family in Cleveland and by a sister stewardess (Christina Applegate) who stabs Donna in the back. View from the Top doesn't take itself seriously, yet takes itself just seriously enough--Donna and the rest of the characters treat their absurdly candy-colored world as if it mattered. As Donna experiences the world and improves her fashion sense, the result is both hilarious and hilariously touching. Also featuring Mike Myers, Kelly Preston, and Candice Bergen as Donna's visionary mentor. --Bret Fetzer
View from the Top Reviews:
Unbelievable 
2008-07-23 - Can't believe Gwyneth Paltrow did this thing. I kept waiting for some irony. This is straight-ahead, nothing post-modern about it. As such, it's a throwback to the madcap comedies of Marilyn Monroe. Christina Applegate's role is one dimensional, as is Mike Myers'. The script is sort of barfable. Is this supposed to be Austin Powers for women?
Highly entertaining chick flick 
2008-04-13 - The sets and costumes reminded me of Down With Love.This is a very enjoyable comedy with a happy ending the girls will thoroughly enjoy.
Good Cast-Good Movie 
2007-09-24 - Definitely a good romantic comedy, View From the Top, brings to the screen the story of a young woman who gets her chance to leave home and fulfil her dream of becoming an air hostess. When she meets Mr Right, however, she'll have to do some serious thinking as to what and who is more important in her life...
View From the Top is a film about human relations, hope and second chances, but most importantly about trust, love, and inner strength.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo, Christina Applegate, Candice Bergen, Mike Myers, Rob Lowe, and the rest of this great cast, have outdone themselves with their performances. All the actors, without exceptions, give it their 100% and it really shows (the chemistry is AMAZING)! Very well written and very well presented, the movie is without a doubt guaranteed to provide more than just a few laughs, not to mention a few tears. The film is simple enough, but does a great job of describing people's every day lives and the problems they face. It just goes to show that simplicity is often far better than complexity, when trying to present issues of a human nature.
The setting, the plot, the dialogues and the music (!) are all wonderful!
In short, View From the Top is a movie definitely worth watching and one to seriously consider adding to your movie collection! 4.5 Stars
View from the Top
2007-09-13 - Clearly intended as an inside-scoop "Chick-Flick", this retro-view of the three stewardess competitive climb to the top of the airline's industry during the '70's, is yet again another example of better-than-expected summer release style effort---from conception to delivery. The comedic performance of all cast members and particularly the three primary actresses were outstanding: Gwyneth Paltrow (Donna), Christina Applegate (Christine), Kelly Preston (Sherry), plus comedic performances by Candice Bergen and Mike Myers. But don't expect too many belly-laughs. Instead, you'll just be smiling throughout the whole film, especially if you remember any of those `coffee, tea or me' United, Western, PSA, and American "Stews" back during that era. Overall, it's up-beat & sunny comedy-relief, purposely PG-13 suitable, and COLORFUL!
Avoid 
2007-07-18 - What a fascinating range of reviews, an equal number of all 5 ratings. Don't know that I've ever seen that before. I also don't know if I've ever seen such a lame movie before. I've seen bad movies, unfortunately, way too many, but this isn't bad. It's....just nothing. A whisp, a breeze, a slight disturbance of the atmosphere, then gone. 79 minutes (jeez, double feautures used to have two films longer than that) yet too long at that. A cast of competent actors try to breathe life into this corpse, but cannot do it. The cliches come tumbling out one on top of the other, the surprises are nil, the characters are barely one-dimensional, the few laughs milked long after the teat is dry. Not worth a lengthy review. Not worth much of anything.
