SusannahSnakes On A Plane
September 2nd 2006 07:23
Dir. David R. Ellis
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips.
You must know the plot by now! But just in case, here goes: an assassin rigs a disguised shipment of snakes (yes that shipment is on a plane) to open during the flight in order to assassinate a witness planning to testify against a member of the Asian mafia. Samuel L. Jackson is the badass FBI agent given the honour of fighting off the reptilian fiends who have been driven crazy by pheromones sprayed onto Hawaiian lei’s (conveniently explaining why snakes, who would normally avoid people unless provoked, want to inflict as much harm as possible to their human flight companions).
This is probably one of the best B movies you will ever see. I found it to be thoroughly enjoyable, and along the lines of other top-notch black comedy monster fare such as Tremors, Alligator, and this year’s earlier entry, Slither.
Not a contender for the Oscars, but then that was never the point, Snakes on a Plane delivers on all its promises of gore, comedy, badassness, cheese, more gore and more cheese. My companion and I were fortunate enough to go to a day-screening where we were the only two people in the cinema. We got to cheer, laugh and scream in all the appropriate places as loudly as we liked.
Snakes on a Plane has good pacing, appropriate action highs and lows, a touch of romance, inventive deaths via snake, and it even squeezes in a little character development. It is also reassuring that this is no fall from A-list, slumming it from Samuel L. Jackson. Instead he is giving this movie his all and obviously having a great time doing it. The snake animatronics and CGI effects are also convincing. The only thing that bothered me was it looked like they had borrowed the plane set straight from that trashy British airline drama, Mile High.
The little B movie that could.
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