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Snakes on a Plane [2006]


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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review

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


Enjoyable and silly fun
Review date: 2008-11-04 Rating: 8 out of 10

This is a great laugh, with some good action & quite a lot of gore. It's an enjoyably daft blockbuster with some scenes that go back to disaster movie cliches, but in an enjoyable way. Recommended.

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Love It!
Review date: 2008-09-02 Rating: 10 out of 10

People moan that Snakes on a Plane is a stupid film, ITS SUPPOSED TO BE STUPID! Its a film that you shouldn't take seriously, just enjoy the ride.

Sadly, this is a film that you can only watch for the first time once in your life.
Review date: 2008-08-14 Rating: 6 out of 10

Do you remember watching "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" aged 7? Do you remember sitting down with "Airwolf" on Saturday Afternoons? Do you miss the fact that you can't go and see films like "Cobra" and "Over The Top" anymore?

Well, now you can. Snakes On A Plane is the best megablockbuster I've seen in years. It is what it is, and it's unapologetic about it. No faux-ironic postmodern, knowing, winking-at-the-audience screenplay. None of that. What you see is what you get.

Snakes. On A Plane.

Plot? Forget about that : it's flimsier than a Thai Hooker's leggings. Dialogue? Endlessly quotable. Never had the word "Sporks" been so important. NEVER.

Snakes On A Plane rocks. You will never see a film that rocks this hard in your life. No word of a lie. This rocks more than Metallica mudwrestling AC/DC at the Tokyo Budokan during a meteor shower. If a film can be described in one word, this films word is "Macho." : If there were awards for most blatant product placement, Red Bull would surely win. And what drink is more macho than Red Bull? Snake venom? This film has people drinking that as well.

If you like explosions, snakes, planes, danger, breasts, dope, guns, computer games, rappers, and "Airport 80 : The Concorde" then this film is for you. If you like some of the most amazing dialogue ever written, then this film is for you. If you like seeing Samuel L Jackson dispense several thousand snakes in ways too awesome for mere words to describe, this is the film you were born to see. Think of the amount of ways a person can die by snake : however many you can think of it, it's not as many as you will see in this film.

It's epic. It's both a great comedy, and a phoenomenal rollercoaster ride of an action movie. Whatever your imagination tells you, this movie is more. It goes up to 11. Everything gets bitten, eaten, or destroyed. Every cliché is fulfilled and exceeded. Nothing is sacred.

The only downside of a film this dumb, this stupid, this brilliant, is that at some point it must end. I came out of the cinema sad yet elated, because this is a film that you can only watch for the first time once in your life. Unforgettable, unbelievable, unpossible : Snakes On A Plane is - without doubt - the stupidest action movie I have seen since "Red Dawn".

Failed to meet even minimal expectations
Review date: 2008-07-11 Rating: 2 out of 10

Okay, so you've got a mass of snakes and Samuel L Jackson on a plane. What's not to like about popcorn entertainment? Well, for one thing, it has to follow a logical narrative and the viewer has to suspend disbelief. The problem is that the film is so badly shot, acted and constructed that it just looks like a joke at your expense. By the end, i was wondering how much Jackson got paid to appear in this, and how on earth something so amateurish could even be made in Hollywood. That's the real point, not that it's brainless entertainment - that's what you'd buy it for - but that it was badly made brainless entertainment.

Ha ha ha ha, crap
Review date: 2008-06-11 Rating: 2 out of 10

If I was watching this on my own I would never have gotten to the end. As it was, I was watching it with someone so I stuck it out to the end. I wasn't expecting much from it, but at least it should have been mildly entertaining in a dumb undemanding way. Unfortunately it was just boring. Seriously boring.

I wasn't expecting logic from the movie, but the logic was too dumb even for a dumb B movie (a boa constrictor that kills and eats a grown man in about twenty seconds?!, everyone being told to strap in before a window is shot open and yet half the characters didn't bother to strap themselves into a chair?!).

The movie was bad. Not so bad it's good. Just bad. Avoid.

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Rachel Blanchard
Byron Lawson
Flex Alexander
Kenan Thompson
Samuel L. Jackson

Creators:
Samuel L. Jackson (Primary Contributor)
Byron Lawson (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Entertainment In Video
Manufacturer: Entertainment In Video
EAN: 5017239194016
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, PAL,
Release date: 2006-12-26
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 102 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2006
Language: English (Original Language)

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