Review – View from the Top

For the first two acts this is a pleasant little piece of fluff about a poor white girl (Gwenyth Paltrow) from small town nowhere trying to break into a more fulfilling life by becoming a flight attendant. Her trip from cheap-ass gambling junket flights to a major airline is full of moments that are entertaining enough in a Beverly Hillbillies kind of way. Even Mike Myers turns in a relatively understated (for him at least) performance as the lead instructor at the flight attendant training academy. But when we make it to Act 3 – in which our heroine confronts her nemesis co-worker and struggles to resolve conflicts between her personal and professional lives – things start to bog down a bit. That’s Hollywood for you. Always disrupting simple comedy with unwelcome message nonsense. Mildly amusing