Review of Baggage Claim (2013) by Maksim B — 20 Feb 2014

A light, brainless romantic comedy Baggage Claim is neither funny, nor intriguing to justify spending money or time watching it. Predictable, lacking its own character and with annoying depiction of post-modern feminism, this movie overuses all possible clichés from the romantic and the Afro-American comedy genres without any success. Almost insulting for the modern, independent and successful female audiences, this is definitely a delivery to be avoided, unless you badly need to see a pointless romcom.

Montana Moore (Paula Patton) is a flight attendant nearing her thirties, who has been enjoying single life for quite some time. When her younger sister announces that her engagement, Montana finds herself under enormous from her marriage-obsessed mother. With only 30 days before the wedding the young Ms. Moore embarks on a nation-wide flight journey to find an appropriate husband. As it could be expected, the answer to her adventure is actually living next to her door.

Apart from the charming smile of Paula Patton and the relatively good chemistry with Derek Luke (playing her childhood friend William), Baggage Claims has nothing else to offer. The jokes are somehow polarizing as they could be found quite offending by successful and independent females and cheesy and cute by housewives and very young teenage girls. Yet, David Talbert's delivery is so far from being watchable that even these small words of positivism about his movie are quickly lost in the overall mediocrity.

There is no doubt that unless you are looking for a brainless and unfunny romantic comedy, you should avoid seeing Baggage Claim. With absolutely nothing meaningful to offer, it would do nothing but bore and annoy you.