BAGGAGE CLAIM DVD (2013)

SYNOPSIS: Determined to get engaged before her youngest sister's wedding, flight attendant Montana Moore (Paula Patton) finds herself with only 30 days to find Mr. Right. Using her airline connections to "accidentally" meet up with eligible ex-boyfriends and scour for potential candidates, she racks up more than 30,000 miles and countless comedic encounters, all the while searching for the perfect guy.

MOVIE REVIEW:

The recently separated Paula Patton (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, 2 Guns) stars as flight attendant Montana, a beautiful lady who just couldn’t find the right man to settle down. To avoid attending her younger sis’s engagement party alone, she has 30 days to find a partner and her two overzealous colleagues, Gail (Jill Scott) and Sam (Adam Brody) hatched a crazy plan to make it happen.

Baggage Claim based on director David E. Talbert’s own book is a downright silly romantic sitcom to begin with. Even with Talbert’s best effort to assemble every African American actor and actresses in the flick, the material simply falls flat. Imagine the plan is to have Montana accidentally bump into many of his exes to sieve through who is actually the perfect one for her. Call it ridiculous, one glance and you can see why Montana left them in the first place. It doesn’t help that Talbert has already placed the perfect man for Montana right in the beginning of the movie. William, Montana’s childhood friend and neighbor who has no qualms lending his ear and shoulder.

It’s downright predictable and to the extent of lame, almost unbearable to see the usually reliable Patton acting so hopelessly stupid. Talbert’s idea of comedy is putting Montana in a garbage bin, under the rain stuck at a fire escape and running across countries just to meet up with her ex-boyfriends. Pathetically, there’s nothing romantic or funny about it. Occasionally, there’s the sex-starved Gill and the cliché gay confidant Sam to provide some tickles. Otherwise, there’s Djimon Hounsou, Taye Diggs, Trey Songz and Boris Kodjoe in supporting roles. 

For an African-American oriented comedy, Baggage Claim failed miserably and not because of it’s talented cast. There’s plenty of eye candy for sure but little mileage by the end of it. When a movie relied on not one but two long-winded speeches about love plus an airport rush thrown in to conclude, you know you can throw this baggage out. 

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Fly Girls focused on interviews with the numerous female cast while Wing Men interviewed the men. The last feature, The Story has director David E. Talbert talking about his movie which in turn is based on his own decade old novel. 

AUDIO/VISUAL:

The DVD offers a sharp nice viewing experience. The Dolby Digital 5.1 is on the soft side though expected with this kind of genre. Dialogue is absolutely clear.   

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Review by Linus Tee