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DVD Snakes on a Plane (Widescreen Edition)
Snakes on a Plane knows exactly what kind of movie it is, knows exactly what moviegoers expect from a title like Snakes on a Plane, and delivers the exact pleasures of a movie in which poisonous snakes are unleashed on a plane to kill an eyewitness to murder. Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, The Long Kiss Goodnight) knows exactly what he's doing in this movie and knows exactly when to pull out the superbad Samuel L. Jackson stare and deliver the infuriated Samuel L. Jackson bellow. The rest of the cast--including Julianna Margulies (ER), Rachel Blanchard (the TV series Clueless), Kenan Thompson (Fat Albert), David Koechner (Anchorman), Bobby Canavale (The Station Agent), and Sunny Mabrey (One Last Thing...)--play their parts with admirably straight faces and deadpan humor. Director David R. Ellis (Final Destination 2, Cellular) gives the movie the much-needed headlong momentum you would expect from a former stunt coordinator. In summation: A perfect piece of self-aware but not self-conscious high camp entertainment, blending comedy and thrills in perfect proportion. --Bret Fetzer
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Awsome!
An instant classic. It's a hollywood movie with a B-movie feel. What could be better?....... I know! Throw in a lot of killer snakes! I have been waiting, very impatiantly, for this movie to come out on video since I saw it in the theater. Easily one of the best movies of 2006.
Okay, enough opinion. Advice time. My advice, don't go into this movie expecting a realistic adventure movie. It's more like, as previously mentioned, a B-horror. Now this, by no means, deminishes the movie. For me it simply made it even more fun.
Fun factor=5 fear factor(if your afraid of snakes)=5 (if not)=2 1/2
realistic=1 effort they put into making an entirely unrealistic
story seem completely real=5
"Time is Tissue!"
One could argue there is a downside to all the pre-release hype and the notion of turning movies into cult classics before they even hit the screen. It is a little unfortunate, for instance, that when Jackson finally recites his already classic "Make My Day" line ("I've had it with these motherf*#king snakes on this motherf#@king plane!") some of the joy is lost because you either know it is coming or you have been waiting the last 90 minutes for it. Moments like these are supposed to be something of a surprise. Discovered in the moment and then traded down amongst friends until it finally makes its way into the pop culture lexicon. I don't think anyone was running around yelling "Yippie-Ky-Yay, motherf*#ker!" six months before the release of "Die Hard." Things like this are supposed to catch on by accident, not be made specifically to do so.
And that could be said about "Snakes on a Plane" itself. The problem with setting out to make a film that is a cult classic from the get-go is that it negates the term. Cult classics are such because they have, over the years, earned that reputation. If a film is a cult classic just because it includes a lot of intentionally bad dialogue, over the top performances and ridiculous action, then nearly every Sci-Fi Channel movie or the hundreds of straight to video flicks that line the walls at Blockbuster are cult classics. Truly great, so-bad-its-good B-movies usually become labeled as such because they aren't in on the joke. The intent was to make an actual film, but they failed so miserably that the movies becomes unintentionally hilarious, yet everyone is playing it with such conviction it is even more hilarious (think "Roadhouse"). I'm not sure you can set out to create that. It doesn't have the same feel or effect when you know that's what they are trying to do.
But even if calling "Snakes on a Plane" a cult classic lacks authenticity and feels both premature and inaccurate, there is no denying it is still a lot of fun. Some might ask why you couldn't just watch a crappy creature movie for free on many a cable channel rather than going out and ponying up hard earned cash for something so trite. Make no mistake, while "Snakes" revels in its hokiness, it still looks better and has more quality performances and action sequences than you run of the mill creature feature ("Dinocroc," anyone?). It is a good-looking action flick that warrants a big-screen release, however, it still knows to skew everything just cheesy enough (dialogue, performances, effects) to put the film firmly in the tongue-in-cheek action category. Let's face it, a movie titled "Snakes on a Plane" isn't likely to confuse too many people looking for quality or smarts.
All that said, if you were to come across "SoaP" some night on, say, Cinemax, you would be pleasantly surprised with how much fun this movie is, with its hilariously overblown caricatures of characters, its script where everything is written as if intended to be a one-liner, and its totally absurd high concept plotting (hundreds of poisonous snakes placed on a plane in order to kill a witness because they could not get to him since the plane is so heavily guarded by police and government officials - how, then, did they get the snakes on the plane? - if they can do that, surely they can get a gun and gunman onboard). Sam Jackson is perfect for the part and some of his lines are true classics ("Time is Tissue," he is told - love his WTF face in response).
It's a shame expectations and hype were so high. "SoaP" is indeed junk, and it doesn't rate as the high-junk as many were hoping and/or led to believe. But it is still good-looking, fast paced, highly entertaining junk. Since it was something of a disappointment at the box office, maybe it will now have a shot at achieving true cult status.
It certainly deserves it.
One quote makes this movie worthwhile
The tag-line of this campy flick
Tells the entire story
Those angry mother-####ing snakes
Sure make this movie gory
Hopped up on $exy pheromones
They slither, coil and hiss
Unless you are the squeamish sort
You won't want to miss this
A witness needs to tell his tale
A bad guy needs him dead
He fills a plane with deadly snakes
Unscrupulously bred
The plane ascends, the countdown starts
The snakes freed during flight
The mile-high club's new membership
Are first to get a bite
Snakes here, there and everywhere
Attacking seat and aisle
And although it's no comedy
The plot'll make you smile
Just when you think the snakes have won
FBI Agent Flynn
Utters his most famous line
And lets some fresh air in
For those who think this movie's dumb
Have I got this correct?
You paid to see "Snakes on a Plane"
What more did you expect?
Amanda Richards, December 3, 2006
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