Starring: Paula Patton, Derek Luke, Jill Scott
Flight attendant Montana Moore (Patton) is constantly under the scrutiny of her much married mother (Jennifer Lewis). Still unmarried, Montana is dreading turning up to her mother's latest wedding without a man so she gets a plan. With the help with her colleagues, Paula travels the country searching for a suitor out of her ex-boyfriends before the wedding in thirty days..
The story of a woman choosing between the various men in her life in who to end up with has been done before and done better (Spike Lee's debut, She's Gotta Have It (1986) for instance) here there's not much in the way of intrigue or intelligence. The latter is certainly missing given the wholly unnecessary voice over narration from star, Paula Patton. The jokes also fall largely flat as well, partly because the characters are uninteresting and often one-dimensional, though Taye Diggs clearly tries to make the most of things as a potential love interest/congressman. The film does have some heart as overused as the moral is and succeeds more at touching the heart than the funny bone. However, as harmless as Baggage Claim is, its also not worth rushing out to see.
Next time, Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan play an ageing married couple going through the joys and miseries of married life (and Jeff Goldblum) in Paris, starring in Le Week-End.
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