Snakes on a Plane (2006)

Snakes on a Plane!!??!!

Snakes is a fun movie, but has absoultey no reedeming quailites, except for the fact that is fun. chances are good, you will not watch it many more times than one or two,but for the price that i picked it up for (about 42 cents) it is worth it. much cheeper than going to the movies.

-willh09 May 17, 2008

OH - THE HUMANITY!!!!

After a year of insane hype, the ridiculous movie that spawned it finally arrived. Deliriously cheesy, S.O.A.P. is a riotous blend of Nature Runs Amok and In-Flight Terror subgenres. It plucks the best elements of both and tosses in a bit of TV Cop Show witness protection intrigue for good measure. Beginning and ending with beach montages, (Which threw us considering the film is about an airplane. During the opening credits - which slide from beach shots to dirtbike stunts with all the narrative grace of a Mountain Dew commercial - we wondered if we were in the right theater?".)

Nathan Phillips, the motorcrosser in the opening, witnesses a bloody mob hit in Hawaii and is immediately almost taken out by members of the Eddie Kim gang. Luckily, Agent Samuel L. Jackson whisks him away to the safety of police custody in a hilariously hambone hotel-room shootout. From here we move to the airport - where you'll be thrilled to be out of the leafy wilds of Hawaii and into the sterile, claustrophobia-inducing halls and compartments of the travel industry.

Right off the bat, we're introduced to our flight crew, which features a few working girls, a sexually aggressive co-pilot, and even a token "Air-Mary" (or at least he seems to be). In the tradition of clichéd cop movies, Juliana Margulies is on her "last day on the job" and just wants it to be an easy one; however, somewhat NOT in the tradition of clichéd cop movies, she's not a cop - she's a stewardess. And we also learn that the chief baddie has decided to fill the plane with snakes, disguised as Hawaiian leis (don't ask), in order to kill off witness Phillips. (Already we're delighted at how the conventions of our various thriller subgenres are being appropriated, customized, retro-fitted, and inflated to bursting.)

Next we meet the passengers, who range from generic stereotypes (the fat woman in the muumuu; the kids flying alone for the first time) to outright celebrity parody (Rachel Blanchard as a blonde bimbo with a tiny purse-dog name Mary-Kate, who throws herself at Flex Alexander's germophobe rap star). This is all well and good because we just know that these idiots are going to be snake-bait in mere moments. (But honestly - don't think too hard about anything in this movie, because it doesn't pay. All we need is to fill plane with snakes, add passengers, stir and enjoy.)

Once the snakes arrive, this endearing little B-movie kicks into high-gear. The fanged stowaways start attacking and they pretty much don't stop for the duration, giving us dozens of hilarious attacks with a fairly hefty body count. The clichés also arrive in ferocious number - (The noble stewardess ventures back into the snake-ridden coach cabin to save the missing baby; the inevitable "is there anyone on board who can fly a plane?"), and with so many delicious snake incidents in between, it's pretty hard to get bored with the "story".

Since 'SNAKES' makes no attempt to rise above its B-movie premise, (and actually seems quite happy to wallow the ridiculous excesses it creates), it's very hard to get angry at it. The only thing that bothered us was the handling of the film's "gay" character, who ends up not being gay.

Yes, the gay-seeming steward who spends the movie clapping and looking wide-eyed and offering to suck the venom out of fat men's behinds ends up being a total hetero, which is kind of a dated joke and a bit of a screw-you to anyone who actually enjoyed the fact that a gay character was somewhat heroic, helpful, sensitive, and alive by the last reel. (And just why are the other stewardesses shocked that he's hugging his girlfriend at the end? Have they never had a conversation with this man during their 5-hour flights?) The filmmakers seem to be patting the homophobes in the audience on the head and saying, "it's alright to have liked that character because he's straight after all! Now get back to defacing pictures of Clay Aiken".

Anyway, this isn't high art but it's certainly worth your time. SNAKES ON A PLANE is fangy, frothy fun.
March 24, 2008

More of Sunny Mabrey Please...

Snakes on a Plane brings to the screen the story of an eyewitness to the murder of his father whose testimony could put a major criminal behind bars for good. On his way from Hawaii to Los Angeles, however, the airplane is flooded with countless snakes of all kinds and sizes turning the aircraft into a morgue...
Samuel Jackson and the rest of the cast carry out their performances well though the acting is nothing extraordinary. The pleasant surprise comes in the shape and form of Sunny Mabrey who as Tiffany the stewardess turns quite a few heads.
The setting, the plot, the dialogues, and the music are all good.
In short, Snakes on a Plane is a movie worth watching if you are in the mood for a decent thriller. 4 Stars
March 16, 2008

Snakes, plane, gore galore. Worse movie I've seen.

Okay. I have to admit that after fifteen minutes I walked out of the theater. Rather than making a decent story, the makers asked people what would attract them to watch this film. Overwhelming the response was gore.
"Snakes on the plane" was painful to watch even for a mear fifteen minutes.

What had me confused was when the flower lais were sprayed with a pheromone "soup" to attract the snakes to various people. Having some knowledge of snakes/reptiles, it would only confuse the snakes rather that attract them. Second-the fact that the snakes struck at the control panel. Again, not actual snake behavior.

I enjoy a good scary horror film but this isn't one. It's little more than a "gross out" movie. The worst thing about "Snakes on the plane"? That it was released. . .I take it back, the worst thing about the film that it was even made. Don't waste your money on this cinematic garbage. February 26, 2008

Snakes On A Plane review

[written: 26-08-06]

I can actually say this movie was quite enjoyable. For one thing, you get to know the character's personalities a little better than in the movie 'United 93'. The visuals are spectacular, the suspense builds and you jump in your seat a few times too. Just the right number of people die so as it doesn't add up to a predictable fantasy where everyone is saved in the end. The only problem was the ending with the learning to surf scene. After all the panic and trauma on the plane, it seemed cheesy, falsely-sentimental and gooey and as if the whole snake drama had never happened. Also they leave a lot of questions unanswered which is kind of annoying.
If you love plane drama movies then this is surely for you. I have seen just about every other disaster movie that involves passengers on a plane, and all have been about terrorists; so it was kinda nice to sit back and watch something a little less predictable and imaginative for once. February 12, 2008

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