Excess Baggage

Pros: Good cast, great plot premise...
Cons: ... bad acting, bad directing, not funny, not romantic...

Excess Baggage starts out with the fascinating plot premise of an attention-starved young woman who stages her own kidnapping in order to get her father to notice her, but this goes wrong when her car, with her bound and gagged in the boot, is ...

Pros: ?, the Actors, but not the acting
Cons: Lack of characterization, crummy plot, atrocious dialogue, lowbrow humor.

When I was still in college, I had the good fortune of being able to review movies for the school newspaper. That meant I was reimbursed for my ticket price and saw films for free. "Excess Baggage" was the only film I was condemned to that I truly wanted ...

Pros: None whatsoever
Cons: Alicia Silverstone's every moment onscreen

Batman and Robin was probably supposed to be the turning point in the career of Alicia Silverstone, the role that would make her a box office superstar rather than just the Moon Pie-faced cutie that carried such worthless "the" movies as The...

Pros: Benicio Del Toro, Christopher Walken
Cons: predicatable

Excess Baggage (1997) Rated PG-13
Stars: Alicia Silverstone (Emily), Benicio Del Toro (Vincent) and Christopher Walken (Uncle Ray)


Excess baggage is the story of Emily, a spoiled girl who fakes her own kidnapping to get the...

Pros: Benicio Del Toro, sometimes fun
Cons: Alicia Silverstone, sometimes not

Why am I taking the time to review this very forgettable film from 1997? Good question. After all, it's an Alicia Silverstone star vehicle and that's usually a recipe for disaster. The plot is forgettable and the whole thing pretty mediocre. Except for...

Pros: Well, it wasn't very long
Cons: Everything else

"Excess Baggage" is structured around the tired concept that the Stockholm Effect makes a great movie. You take one rich, pouty, unappreciated girl who wants her daddy's attention. Mix in one strickingly handsome and charming car thief, an accidental...

Pros: Alicia Silverstone,great plot
Cons: the movie should be longer,and not really considered a comedy

I saw Excess Baggage when it came out several years ago,and it quickly became one of my favorite movies.Not only is Alicia Silverstone a beautiful young actress,but she also was the producer of this movie.Now that's what I call true hollywood...

Pros: Benicio del Toro...lt was a harmless, feel good movie that l really enjoyed...
Cons: Not an award winning movie, obviously, but lighten up, it's still fun!!!

Unlike most people (Except the late Siskel& Ebert) l really liked this movie, their was truly nothing wrong with it...OH, sorry, l guess their was not enough sex, bad language and violence that most people seem to enjoy, not me, l loved that it was free...