ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

suite92 Most of the activity of the film is on a red eye flight direct from Los Angeles to New York City on Valentine's Day. Tully, the pilot, has anger management issues. Many of the passengers have problems finding successful romantic relationships.Jenny and Chip have a dinner before she flies back to New York. He gives her some expensive earrings, though her ears are not pierced. She tells him that she has decided to move to Los Angeles to be with him. Unfortunately, he has a second string girl friend and does not want Jenny to move. They break up. No surprises there.Tom, a theoretical physics professor, gets hooked into accepting a ride to LAX with his ex, who breaks up with him again, for not kissing her on the lips. Tom and Jenny bump into each other at on of the gift shops.TMJ (a rapper) is going to NYC without his entourage. While he is walking to his gate, rap music plays, in which the singer shows his sense of entitlement--to murder whomever he wishes. This was a good place to stop watching the film. Hate speak usually does not bode well for a film. Amir and Mohammed are both 'randomly' chosen for a more thorough inspection before boarding.On the plane, the flight attendants Sandy and Lisa immediately classify Jenny as a high maintenance bitch. Great: more hate speech. Amir and Mohammed are immediately pigeon-holed as terrorists. TMJ immediately shies away from Tom because he's white, while Tom is not positively impressed with TMJ's "I'm the most garish pimp here" clothing. The male flight attendant has trouble getting TMJ to get off his cell phone during take-off. After learning that TMJ was on board, Sandy and Lisa sing part of one of his songs which was beyond gross.Tom tries to enable a seat switch between Jenny (in coach) and TMJ, so that TMJ can appear non-elitist to his girl friend. TMJ objects to sitting next to the terrorists, but Tom talks him into it. Tom and Jenny try to get to know each other at some length.Tully and his wife have an off and on telephone fight during most of the flight. In between those heated exchanges, Tully and his co-pilot discuss the merits of Christianity. Tully is an atheist, while Derek is an evangelical.Amir turns out to be allergic to TMJ's dog. Mohammed tries to talk TMJ into putting the dog back in its carrier. The dog makes a break for it.Will any of these earnest attempts at relationships work out?------Scores-------Cinematography: 7/10 Competent but nothing special.Sound: 7/10 No particular problems on sound qualities. The choice of the incidental music could have been better.Acting: 3/10 Rachel Blanchard, Christina Chang, Claudia Christian, Josh Braaten, and Gbenga Akinnagbe were considerably more irritating than interesting. Anthony LePaglia and James D'Arcy were better than competent, but could not make up for the others.Screenplay: 3/10 The singing did not help, nor did the touchy-feely conversations, nor did the ugly yapping dog loose on a plane. I am not looking forward to other efforts by Valerie Breiman. Belly laughs? Zero. Smiles? Zero. Anything in between? No. The endless weepy confessions by men were neither illustrative nor interesting.

thehappycow I wanted to like this movie, but I found the two lead characters overacting their parts horribly and thus they seemed stupid. Let's face facts, nobody with that much need and who is that vulnerable should fly on a red eye flight and risk having a dialog with anyone. Just sleep for heaven's sake and go see your therapist in the morning. I found the character of the guy who has the dog offensive - what kind of a woman dates a guy like that? What kind of a writer writes a part like that? Who on earth would have even bothered to put this storyline to any movie? I did enjoy the dialog between the pilot and the co-pilot and enjoyed those actors, particularly the pilot. Although I love romantic comedies, I did not find this romantic or comical. Just a waste of time.

whitney8944 I didn't expect too much when I opted to watch this on my Netflix, especially since I had never heard of it before. But halfway through I found myself loving it. There are a lot of crappy, utterly empty romantic comedies out there after which I feel robbed of 90 minutes of my life, but this isn't one of them. This movie actually caused me to create an IMDb account because I thought it deserved a good review. It had all the really important elements: likable, believable characters with unique stories and perspectives, an interesting and well thought-out plot, good dialogue, and decent acting. And it was actually FUNNY, unlike a lot of wannabe romantic "comedies" who try to get by on Harlequin schmooze. I loved the non-traditional take that was simultaneously believable and even, brace yourself, realistic. Some of the best parts of this movie come about because of the humorous interplay between the characters as they force us to laugh at our own prejudices and attitudes. It ends up being a movie with more than a few different story lines woven into one, and it's refreshing that all of those story lines don't exist solely for the purpose of propping up a two dimensional relations; they seem to have some substance of their own. I couldn't give it more than a 7, because hey, it's not Oscar worthy, but this movie is highly enjoyable and seriously underrated.

Bob Miller The previous review does a pretty decent job of describing the overall movie. This review is just about the portrayal of the Christian character in this movie:But this is no 'Christian movie'. It has an R rating because of sexual themes and language. In most Hollywood movies, the Christian character, is usually trivialized as an obnoxious caricature of a either a Bible-thumping Preacher, or a pathetic wimp. So I was pleasantly surprised to see that the co-pilot Christian was, in the end, not portrayed that way. He started out seeming pretty nerdy and out-of-touch by reading his 'Holy Bible' in the cockpit. But the character became a real person as the movie progressed. And he even read a nice passage about love from 1 Cor. 13. I was very surprised that the Bible got such decent air time, for once. Good job Valerie!