YMMV / Deadly Mile High Club

• Awesome Ego: Gonzo Rogers, proprietor of the self-proclaimed "best flight school" in SoCal.
  Gonzo Rogers: God, I love being me!
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Margaret is such an over-the-top character, and Diane Robin is so fully-committed to playing her, that everyone who's seen the movie cites her as the most memorable part. How Did This Get Made? specifically singled her out as a reason to see the movie.
• Ham and Cheese: Diane Robin (Margaret) and Damon K. Sperber (Gonzo) know what kind of movie they're in and have fun (over)playing their roles.
• Narm Charm: As with most Lifetime movies, a lot of it is unintentionally hilarious, because of the serious treatment of a wacky plot and general lack of subtlety. But, again as with most Lifetime movies, there are many hints of self-awareness on the part of the filmmakers, leading to the question of whether our laughs might actually be the Intended Audience Reaction.
• Poor Man's Substitute: You can almost picture this as a theatrical movie circa 1996, with Sharon Stone as Tanya and Shirley MacLaine as Margaret.
• Rooting for the Empire: Tanya is nuttier than a pecan pie, but she's the only one who actually seems to care for Jake, and her victims tend be unlikable people, so you almost find yourself wanting her to win Jake and get away with her crimes.
• So Bad, It's Good: A rare Lifetime movie to get some actual mainstream attention, thanks largely to the How Did This Get Made? crew discussing it. Meanwhile, Lifetime aficionados have noted that this movie is extremely campy and ludicrous even by Lifetime standards. Every single important plot point is based on a tortured contrivance, the characters are all two-dimensional stereotypes, the acting styles are all over the map—Margaret is like the nagging mom in a wacky Romantic Comedy, Gonzo feels like he wandered in from the set of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo—and the depiction of flying is extremely unrealistic (the long shots of Gonzo's plane in flight look suspiciously like a radio-control model). It's even been likened to a more competent version of The Room or Birdemic.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Allison McAtee shows some impressive range as Tanya, making her more sympathetic than a typical Lifetime villain. How Did This Get Made? joked that the rest of the cast didn't really even try hard because they could see that she was doing most of the film's actual acting.