A View From the Top Reviews

A View From the Top Review
by Robin Clifford (Rating: D-)
Donna Jensen (Gwyneth Paltrow) lives with her trailer trash mom in tiny Silver Springs, Nevada. But, she has greater ambitions than to just cool her heals in a go-nowhere town. When she reads the best-seller, The Sky Is My Life, by uber-stewardess Sally...more

A View From the Top Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3/4)
VIEW FROM THE TOP, by director Bruno Barreto (BOSSA NOVA), is best defined by what it's not. No matter what the trailers might lead you to believe, it never attempts to be the next AIRPLANE! -- even if it does have its slapstick moments. Instead, this...more

A View From the Top Review
by Karina Montgomery (Rating: 1/5)
Long time readers know that Mike Myers in SNL mode is very tiresome to me. Gwyneth Paltrow - far from bullet proof herself (Great Expectations) cannot singlehandedly save a movie from itself by transcending its material. In a good movie, she is...more

A View From the Top Review
by Jonathan F. Richards
In the great tradition of movies like "Room at the Top", "View From the Bridge", and "A Room with a View", Miramax’s new release has the words "view" and "top" in its title. Otherwise, this mild, low-wattage comedy has very little going for it....more

A View From the Top Review
by Homer Yen (Rating: C+)
With the hostilities having already commenced a half a world away, a palpable sense of concern seems to preoccupy many of us here at home, as we are fixated to the various news channels providing 24-hour coverage. Something to distract us with a little...more

A View From the Top Review
by Laura Clifford (Rating: C-)
Donna Jensen (Gwyneth Paltrow) believes her dreams of leaving her trailer park existence in Silver Springs, Nevada are answered with a job and assistant manager boyfriend at a local discount warehouse store, but when she's dumped, she transfers her hopes...more

A View From the Top Review
by Susan Granger (Rating: 3/10)
Susan Granger's review of "A View From the Top" (Miramax Films) Stranded Gwyneth Paltrow serves as a cotton-candy parachute as this flimsy, ailing airline comedy plummets into oblivion. Filmed several years ago, it's been gathering dust on the...more

A View From the Top Review
by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: 2/4)
# stars based on 4 stars: 2 Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Miramax Films Directed by: Bruno Barreto Written by: Eric Wald Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Mark Ruffalo, Kelly Preston, Mike Myers, Candice Bergen, Rob Lowe Screened at: Loews...more

A View From the Top Review
by JoBlo (Rating: 4/10)
PLOT: A small-town girl who doesn't get much encouragement from her family discovers a mentor via a successful flight attendant who provides her with the needed support to pursue her own dreams to the top. Unfortunately for the sexy mamasita, becoming a...more