KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

cargoforce If truth be told, I appreciated Excess Baggage!!(now stare at the title!!!) I actually liked all of the characters and how emily hope ( alicia silverstone) and Vincent( Benicio Del Toro) were so appealing jointly. To me , they represented someone needing someone else, or Emily needing the love and support of Vincent. I could watch this movie everyday! Another thing i loved about this movie was how sweet it was!! Alicia plays a spoiled rich girl who never got the love she wanted from her busy father, and plus her father would rather attend a business meeting than even talk to her. how rude!! And then she meets vincent and at first she is scared but then they sort of have an understanding of each other. (Plus Benicio is really hot in this movie!!!)Vincent,in a way, takes care of emily and fills that empty spot in her heart. He would take care of her much better than her own father. Vincent can't stand that even her own father wouldn't give her the love that she needs.It was a really beautiful movie and also it was Alicia Silverstones Debut of producing! Another thing i thought was sweet was that Benicio and Alicia actually dated in real life during the making of this movie! How Sweet! Even though the movie got bad reviews, i really enjoyed it. Not only that, but it is clean enough to watch with younger kids in the room.To me, it seems like the perfect date movie or whenever you just feel like watching a movie. Another plus is that christopher walken is in the movie and he has made a lot of movies and he is well known. There were so many funny and sweet performances. Christopher plays uncle ray, Emily's uncle, and ever since she was born, he has looked out for her as if he was her father. He would protect her in anyway he could, even if that means killing vincent, the car thief, who could put her in jail. There was only one think that i can think of that was really weird and that was the preview, i had never actually watched it before, but it didn't really showcase the movie for what it was! i would have done it completely different, but otherwise the movie was sooooooo great!!!!(plus there were a lot of nice cars)

zardoz-13 Actress Alicia Silverstone's latest starring vehicle "Excess Baggage" opens amid a frenzy of activity like an inspired screwball comedy. Midway through the movie director Marco Brambilla and his scribes flagrantly shift gears from a sparkling comedy to a tedious kidnapping drama about an unhappy heiress and a woebegone car thief. Fans of the "Clueless" starlet may find "Excess Baggage" a puzzling departure for Silverstone who wielded ultimate creative authority over both script and casting. Perhaps she is more to blame for the muddled quality of "Excess Baggage" than either Brambilla or the writers. Never as entertaining as "Clueless" but better than "Batman & Robin," "Excess Baggage" arrives as something of a letdown after Silverstone's long screen absence.Cast as Emily T. Hope, the moody daughter of a man richer than Donald Trump, Silverstone constantly struggles to elicit her icy hearted, corporate father's affections. Australian actor Jack ("'Breaker' Morant") Thompson plays the father who has grown weary of his daughter's outlandish schemes to attract his attention. When he sent her away to a boarding school, Emily torched the place. As "Excess Baggage" unfolds, she has convinced not only her father but also the FBI that kidnappers are holding her for a million dollar ransom. Lamely, Emily hopes that her rescue from her bogus kidnappers will rekindle her papa's love. So she gags, tapes and cuffs herself before she jumps into the trunk (not a stunt you should try) of her BMW.Just as it looks as if everything is going Emily's way, a car thief spots her Beamer in a parking garage and steals it as she lies helpless in the trunk. No sooner does Vincent (Benicio Del Toro) wheel his latest trophy onto the street than a swarm of police cars descends on him. A tire-screeching chase ensues, and Vincent manages to shake his pursuers. He pulls into a nondescript warehouse that conceals his stolen vehicles. Vincent is an expert car thief who boosts expensive sports cars. When he puts the car on the rack, he notices that it wobbles. Imagine his shock when he finds a babe chick inside bound and gagged. Vincent slams the trunk! Since he cannot think of anything else, he calls his partner-in-crime Greg (Harry Connick, Jr), a car salesman.Meanwhile, Emily's suspicious father calls in his right hand man, Uncle Ray (Christopher Walken) to find his daughter. After Emily breaks out of the car, she calls pop, but hangs up when Vincent returns. Eventually, Vincent decides to leave her on foot far out in the forest. That's when he discovers her identity and that his car warehouse stands in a pile of smoking ashes. Now, the guys who paid Vincent to steal the cars (Nicholas Turturro & Michael Bowen) want their $200-thousand dollars back. Spotting Emily, they pull guns on Vincent and take Emily hostage with a million dollar ransom demand. It seems that "Excess Baggage" is a series of kidnappings and abductions.The inventive but offbeat script hangs together by the most improbable threads. The more unlikely the circumstances are, the more colossal the dramatic outcome appears. Anyway, whoever thought to demand realism out of an Alicia Silverstone comedy? Suddenly, "Excess Baggage" wanders off on other subplots that distract from Vincent and Emily. Not only that but the story slows down and a pall hovers over the characters. Realism tries to intrude on an Alicia Silverstone movie.Screwball comedy dictates that Vincent heists the same car that Emily uses to stash her body. A smoldering cigarette that she tosses into a rag bin later engulfs Vincent's neat hideout in flames. Neither Vincent nor Emily appreciate their predicament. Just when Vincent rids himself of Emily, he needs her and she needs him. Later, when Ray captures Vincent and confiscates his money, Emily comes to his rescue. Less than amused, the gruff Ray explains to Emily that she has committed a serious crime. They need to use Vincent as the fall guy to take her place."Clueless" it ain't. Director Marco Brambilla, whose only previous directing credit is Sly Stallone's "Demolition Man," whips these disparate elements together with such verve and style until Emily and Vincent team up. The action stalls out along with the humor and movie goes in search of a genre. Is this still a comedy? Or is it a social problem film? About the same time that the story loses its momentum, we learn what an insensitive brute her father truly is. Jack Thompson's stuck-up dad feels absolutely no sympathy for his daughter and finds a business appointment infinitely preferable to her attentions.Writer Max D. Adams and comedy veterans Dick Clement and Ian Frenais fumble in their efforts to maintain a consistent feeling and atmosphere in the story. After Emily and Vincent fall for each other, Alicia Silverstone's character spends several scenes off-camera. We get to follow the misadventures of poor Vincent who gets kidnapped not only by Ray but his criminal cronies. The focus shifts from the burgeoning relationship between Emily and Vincent and settles on the mechanics of a crime thriller. There's even a shoot-out at the end, and Alicia drives a forklift with the front end of a car on it through a wall. The filmmakers clearly lose interest in their characters when they let the leads take a back seat to the crazy twists and turns of the plot. But the ending isn't so neat. Emily's father couldn't care two bits for his daughter and wings it off to a business conference.If anybody holds this uneven caper together it's star and producer Alicia Silverstone. Although she is looking a little fleshy around the curves, Silverstone's china-doll eyes and her crooked smile are all the charisma this movie should have needed. The amazing thing is that Silverstone allows her character to be shuttled off-camera, something that rarely happened in "Clueless."

Tracy_Terry_Moore Alicia Silverstone is very hot, though the title of this strange looking thing really sucks.When rich chick Alicia fakes her own kidnapping by locking herself in the trunk of her car in order to get attention from her elusive father (Jack Thompson), a car thief (Benicio Del Toro) steals it while followed by two lowly hoodlums and Alicia's anemic uncle (Chris Walken) who wants to bring her back to Daddykins. Alicia is beautiful and Benicio is handsome in this light romantic-comedy, though all the car trunk scenes will make you look at your watch.

moonspinner55 Rich, unloved teenage girl stages her own kidnapping, but her plan gets foiled when a carjacker takes her for a ride. Anemic comedy-drama with cynical romantic undermining looks fairly stylish and is well-paced, but the screenplay is filled with plot-holes and annoying characters, and the film's last act loses all inspiration. In the lead, Alicia Silverstone--just off her star-making turn in "Clueless"--isn't bad, but she needed a stronger director to reel in her bratty-comic excesses. Surprisingly, the film failed to find an audience with its target group and did a fast fade. Silverstone deserved better. ** from ****