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2003
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Positive Reviews
13
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35
Average Rating
2.0
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1.5
Powered by an unceasing soundtrack of inspirational favorites like Living On A Prayer and For Once In My Life, Paltrow pounds through a training progr ..
Av Club
3.0
Paltrow has an ingenuous dazzle that perks the audience up, yet the jokes dont fizz, and theres something patently cloying about the way the film port ..
EW
3.8
Adult audiences may be underwhelmed.Not younger teenage girls, who will be completely fascinated.
Rogerebert
2.0
There are some mildly funny moments and the performances are fine, but they dont make up for its lack of anything particularly engaging in its charact ..
Common Sense Media
1.9
This blase hodgepodge cant decide whether it wants to be a romantic comedy or an absurd send up of believe in yourself inspirational dramas.
2.0
Their flirtation, however, doesnt last long since Donna and Christine land places on the training programme for the prestigious Royalty Airlines run b ..
Screen Daily
0.0
Honestly, all this is pussyfooting around one irrefutable fact: The damn thing is boring.
2.5
Another comedy that is instantly forgotten about on arrival. Something seen time after time that isnt close to a near miss, will land on video soon en ..
E Film Critic
2.5
The movie aspires to be nothing more than there. It filled me with inertia. The best thing I can say about it is that it has nice credits both at the ..
E Film Critic
1.3
The movie is at odds with itself even at its most fundamental level, as a celebration of a career woman.
San Francisco Chronicle
2.0
But lets not rush to blame the actors too hastily for this mediocre effort.
2.5
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
0.6
Such a godawful mess that you honestly cant tell if it was meant to be a comedy or not.
Combust Ible Celluloid
1.9
The farce doesnt work because its played straight, and the fluffy inspirational material doesnt work because, well, weve seen it so many times and wou ..
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
View from the Top stays stranded on the runway, denied takeoff. Its got all the appeal of a bag of stale peanuts.
2.5
The ultra colorful set design and brisk pace keeps the film from ever becoming an all out bore, but Eric Walds simplistic screenplay essentially guara ..
Reel Film Reviews
3.0
This is a good, light, escapist fantasy.Some critics dont like it because it isnt depressing enough and it isnt exactly politically correct, but who c ..
Lariat
3.0
But be careful what you wish for.All of these people dreamed of being movie stars, and look what happened to them.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
Its more likely that they were confused about what to do with it and whether to market it as a comedy, drama or both.If it hadnt been for its name lis ..
Screen It
4.0
More low key and thoughtful, and far less noisily contrived than Maid in Manhattan, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and all of Sandra Bullocks recent oe ..
Film Journal International ..
1.9
As spectacularly unfunny as this material is, its also completely predictable.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.8
This sweet little comedy is a coming of age, small town girl makes good saga. ... Rooting for an underdog that you expect will win is always satisfyin ..
Internet Reviews
1.0
Theyre not enough to make slogging your way through this worthwhile.
Mountain X
4.5
It wont even be worth waking up for when its the inevitable in flight movie.
1.0
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Toronto Star
3.5
View from the Top asks the question: can a simple girl from the small town of Silver Springs, Nevada, find happiness by achieving her dream and becomi ..
Reel Talk Reviews
1.0
style spoof After 87 minutes youll be hard pressed to give a damn.
Bbc
1.0
A look at the Laugh Factorys Comedy Camp, which for more than 30 years has offered a place for at risk kids and otherwise to try their hand at stand u ..
Calendar Live
1.9
On the whole View From the Top is a surreally spotty movie.Is this a sincere romantic comedy
Hollywood
3.0
Its a strangely fitting scene for this comedy, in which big hair and Mike Myers with a crossed eye are played for laughs, yet received with amusement ..
Seattle Pi
1.9
Very, very occasional a good laugh comes as a welcome surprise (Baloney or cheese
Spliced Wire
2.5
As involving as a pre takeoff explanation of jetliner safety features.
Boxoffice Magazine
1.5
Kansas City, Kan., native and pop star Janelle Monae came to the Starlight Theater for her first headlining show in five years, giving an astounding p ..
Kansas City
1.9
Though it starts out with a quirky sense of promise, this film about an ambitious stewardess never gets off the ground.
Ross Anthony
0.0
Theres really nothing in any of it worth dwelling on, so flat is the writing, so plastic are the performances. . . as it flails for a substance that i ..
Killer Movie Reviews
0.0
View From the Top feels like a salvage job, as if Weinstein or somebody at Miramax knew they had a dog so they recut it and added scenes of Myers wack ..
Sltrib
3.0
Virtually every clich and stereotype is on parade, culminating in the career vs. love choice.
Guide Live
2.0
The filmmakers should have stuck to their guns and maintained one tone for the film.
Fat Guys At The Movies
2.5
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Freep
2.0
Not even cameos by Rob Lowe as a copilot, Chad Everett as Sallys Westons husband, or George Kennedy as an airline passenger can rev up this plummeting ..
Movie Metropolis
1.5
bears all the tell tale signs of a movie thats been put through the wringer: voice over narration to cover choppy continuity; scenes that end abruptly ..
James Sanford on Film
1.9
View From the Top is one of those misguided movies that mistakes wackiness for depth.
Aisle Seat
2.5
We want you to be happy!.What if I do a mailing and get returned mail
Movie Eye
1.5
If youre looking to spend a couple of hours in first class, View from the Top is definitely not the ticket.
IGN Movies
2.5
And the result is something that a little bit of funny and a whole lot of uneven.
Films Nobs
1.0
And youve got to know that this is probably your one and only shot at getting millions of ordinary people to see your vision of the world.So screw it, ..
Films Nobs
1.9
But over the top comedy needs to go somewhere if not over the top, at least near the rim.
Seattle Times
2.5
Though it does not exactly have wings, View from the Top might be worth a viewing particularly when its next to Sweet Home Alabama on the video rack.
Premiere Magazine
2.0
The movie floats around aimlessly between condescending dumb blonde comedy, soggy love story and follow your destiny corn.
Citysearch
1.9
Even though there are funny people like Mike Myers making cameos (payback for Paltrows brilliant cameo in Goldmember) this comedy about a budding stew ..
Zap2it.com
1.5
It would be almost likeable if it werent for the contradictions that rip the guts out of the set up.
eye WEEKLY
3.5
I was sorry when I learned that Michaels, the well known childrens hair cutting salon at Madison Avenue and 90th Street, went out of business recently ..
Ny Observer
2.0
Has fewer laughs than the number of peanuts in the typical airline snack.
Journal News (Westchester, ..
1.5
Somewhere in the midst of Mike Meyers outrageously floaty eye is a grown up satire waiting to get out.
CinemaBlend
0.6
Who on earth is this embarrassment easily the worst film of the year to date aimed at
Boston Globe
3.0
The first study was a survey of 60 young adults, aged 19 23 to see what food drink combinations they preferred.
Bangor News
1.5
Teeters on the edge of lightweight, bland fare more associated with whats on airline menus. But the cast adds flavor and energy to the otherwise unrem ..
Long Island Press
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