Metacritic reviews

Adult audiences may be underwhelmed. Not younger teenage girls, who will be completely fascinated.

The tone seesaws between comic wackiness and romantic sincerity, with Paltrow better suited to the latter.

Why Paltrow, who was accepting a best actress Oscar four years ago, would take this clumsily written role is anyone's guess.

It's meant to be harmless fluff. It is.

Mike Myers, responsible for the picture's one, or possibly two, laughs.

Flubs nearly every opportunity to be the comedy it wanted to be.

I think this camp classic is an accident along the lines of "Showgirls": howlingly funny, filled with gratingly earnest performances, riddled with dialogue that will be quoted at parties.

The film, meanwhile, goes for that choppy, air-pocket sensation, veteran helmer Bruno Barreto directing like he's never made a movie before, and never wants to again.

If the new I-wanna-be-a-stewardess picture View From the Top were an airplane, it would blow up on takeoff. If it were an airline meal, it would infect you with E. coli. If it were a parachute, it would be riddled with holes.

Who on earth is this embarrassment -- easily the worst film of the year to date -- aimed at?