Flight attendant roasts ‘unrealistic’ Netflix holiday hit Carry-On

An off-duty flight attendant shared his hilarious reaction while watching the popular holiday film Carry-On. 

The unidentified male and his fellow flight attendant Camille (@camilleintheclouds) spent their Saturday night watching the Netflix movie.

Camille couldn’t stop laughing at her friend’s opinions about the ‘unrealistic’ holiday film in a December 29 TikTok video.

The movie topped Netflix’s most-watched film list after its December 13 debut, despite sparking disbelief from those who work on planes in real life.

The social media video shows the flight attendant commenting after watching the traveler (Jason Bateman) enter the galley – a kitchen area on an aircraft.

The unidentified flight attendant claimed he would tell fliers to get out of the galley and said Bateman’s character shouldn’t have lifted the aircraft’s carpet.

Camille was just as surprised and questioned the position of the plane’s cargo hatch – a door providing access to anyone loading or unloading baggage. 

The movie centers around a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent named Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) looking to outsmart a blackmailing flier known as the ‘traveler’ (Bateman) on Christmas Eve.

Bateman’s devious character demanded Kopek allow a carry-on bag go through airport security and claimed he would kill the agent’s pregnant girlfriend Nora (Sofia Carson) if he didn’t follow his orders.

Despite the film’s 87 percent score on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, TSA spokesperson Jessica Mayle agreed that many of the Carry-On scenes were unrealistic.

According to Mayle, passengers are required to be screened before entering certain places in an airport and fliers who refuse to follow this rule would be ‘denied access’ to those areas.

‘Given TSA’s layered approach to security, with intelligence and risk analysis as a basis, it is unlikely the scenarios the movie presented could evade the TSA airport security apparatus at the nation’s airports,’ she told Newsweek.

‘TSA is always operating at a high level of security, and employees are in a constant state of vigilance. The agency maintains a risk-based, intelligence-driven approach that includes multiple layers of security, both seen and unseen,’ Mayle added.

Several TikTokers who watched Camille’s video were amused at her friend’s opinions.

One watcher wrote they were ‘obsessed’ with the TikTok and claimed the flight attendant spoke for all flight attendants everywhere.

Others agreed about the galley comment, and one person called it ‘so real.’

A commenter claiming to be a baggage handler was just as frustrated as the male flight attendant and questioned why there was a refrigerator was in the galley.

Realistic or not, film critics did not let the unrealistic scenes stop them from praising Carry-On.

One critic from Empire Magazine wrote: ‘Die Hard karaoke this may be, but it delivers – and eclipses at least two of John McClane’s outings in the process.’ 

‘Look forward to future eye-rolling debates as to whether it qualifies as a Christmas movie,’ they added.

‘Even when the repeated showdowns between the TSA agent and traveler lose potency, these actors maintain the narrative’s tension and viewer investment,’ a critic wrote for The Hollywood Reporter. 

‘As their rivalry slowly becomes one of two equals, wondering how each might outmaneuver the other becomes part of the thrill.’

Several critics who trashed the film were more disappointed with performances rather than unrealistic actions of TSA officers.

‘The result is a hamstrung thriller that feels cheaper than it should, like a feature-length episode of FOX’s 9-1-1, bogged down by a sense of malaise radiating outward from its protagonist in waves,’ a critic wrote for Paste Magazine.

One critic from Blu-ray.com claimed the film went ‘bananas’ and another from FandomWire insisted Carry-On felt like a studio said, ‘Let’s make a movie that answers the question, “Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?”‘