Nobody-27 It seems that too many people watch this movie with wrong expectations: first of all, it is supposed to be a mindless, silly comedy, and in that sense it does not fail. The very beginning of the film shows it clearly, so adjust your expectations accordingly, you Ms. Paltrow included :) I mean, there is Mike Myers in a role of an absolute idiotic instructor teaching flight attendants how to pronounce "assess" so it does not sound like "asses", and Gwyneth Paltrow in a role that takes full advantage of her good looks and portrays her as an unambitious (dumb?) blonde (in the first third of the film)... so if you are expecting some Kurosawa, or Bergman type depth, you are being delusional.View from the top does have some shortcomings: first of all, it was being made just as 9/11 happened, and from what I gather, that influenced the story, editing and release quite a bit. Then, there is the strange cameo by Rob Lowe, which leaves an impression that it was meant to be more than just a cameo... but it ended up being a loose end. And there is a strangely inconsistent accent by Gwyneth Paltrow who usually gets it right ("Sliding Doors" comes to mind), so that leads me to believe that there was some serious amount of re-shooting which made for those inconsistencies...Even with all that, the film comes loaded with good laughs, my favorite being scenes with Mike Myers who just nailed his role (but I understand that "haters gonna hate"), and even Gwyneth's reactions to his lunacy are priceless.So, if you are expecting a terrific plot that would make Hitchcock jealous, move on, this is not that type of film. But if you are in for some guilty pleasure of silly laughs with some seriously good acting by the main actors (Gwyneth Paltrow, Mike Myers and Christina Applegate were all great), then you have come to the right place.This film is really not as bad as people are making it to be. There is nothing wrong with using actresses good looks to make a funny film especially when the film has no pretenses at being another "Seventh Seal". If anything, we need more joy and fun in this world, and this film provides plenty of that.p.s. Watch this film carefully, there are plenty of jokes that would be easy to miss if you are too busy eating popcorn.p.p.s. BTW, Christina Applegate just proved again what a terrific actress she is! Wow!

rac-23 I saw this on TV and had to immediately write a review because of how appalled I am. I don't want to exaggerate, so I can't say this is the worst movie ever. I haven't seen every movie to know.I can't say this is the worst movie I've ever seen. I don't remember them all, and I haven't been keeping track.All I can say is: I don't remember any movie worse than "View from the Top" (2003).I don't understand how the story is so bad.I don't understand how the the writing is so bad.I understand why the acting is so bad. They were doomed by the production they were in.Credit for the musical montage in Paris. That was the one segment of the movie where I wasn't laughing from amazement or crying from torture.Do movies get worse than this?

jessegehrig Plot-less. Would have been better as just straight up pornography. Just get them people to f*cking, cut out the middle man. A movie made of ghosts, one haunting after the next and all that is gained is a numb spiritual emptiness. Gwyneth Paltrow is a pretty lady, I understand, but does she really need a whole movie to herself? What story is she gonna tell me? A pretty lady struggles, a pretty lady perseveres, a pretty lady achieves? Is that really a story? If there is a love story in this, you know it's gonna work out well in the end? Don't you know that? Please tell me you know that. If this movie was a forest, I would burn it down, down to the ground.

MBunge I don't know how on why this script got produced, but something nefarious or untoward had to be involved. Somebody had to get paid off, sucked off or drugged up because this screenplay is painfully obvious and even more painfully incompetent. While watching it, it felt like the story had started out as a spectacularly lame attempt at drama but after writer Eric Wald got rejected for the 538th time, he went back and tried to retrofit it as a comedy. That's a bad idea to begin with and it's made so much worse by Wald's near total lack of any sense of humor. There are only three overtly comedic characters in this whole thing. One is supposed to be funny because he's gay, one is supposed to be funny because she's a thieving skank and the other is supposed to be funny because he's cross-eyed. Such low-quality laughs can be acceptable, but not when they're in desperately short supply. For every 10 funny seconds here, there's at least 10 completely unfunny minutes.Donna (Gwyneth Paltrow) is a small town girl with sort-of big time dreams. She wants to be a flight attendant, which is only a lofty goal if you grow up in a corrugated aluminum trailer with an ex-showgirl mom and a succession of loser stepdads. She starts out at a bargain basement airline that flies drunks and gamblers around Nevada, eventually making her way to the much more prestigious Royalty Airlines. But even though she's the best student in Royalty's flight attendant training school, when she graduates she's assigned to a commercial express flight out of Cleveland. Along the way Donna meets a boyfriend (Mark Ruffalo) and her idol, world famous flight attendant and author Sally Westin (Candice Bergen).You can probably guess what happens but just in case some unborn fetuses are reading this, Donna gets an opportunity to work the international flights to Paris and have the adventurous life of which she always dreamed. She can't really have that life and a boyfriend in Cleveland, so she has to choose. Unsurprisingly, she chooses one and then later on changes her mind and chooses the other. I think you know which is which.It's not like View From The Top is badly made. The cast gives it the old college try, the director does what he can and the basic plot unfolds in a blunt yet logical fashion. There are just so many long stretches where there's nothing vaguely resembling a joke or even a humorous situation. If a comedy is genuinely funny, it can be outright terrible in a lot of other ways. This movie isn't actually that terrible, but it's barely funny at all.Only watch this thing if you're going to be breathing laughing gas for the next 90 minutes.