Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 171
Fresh: 117 | Rotten: 54
Snakes on a Plane lives up to its title, featuring snakes on a plane. It isn't perfect, but then again, it doesn't need to be.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 17
Snakes on a Plane lives up to its title, featuring snakes on a plane. It isn't perfect, but then again, it doesn't need to be.
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Forget terrorists or hijackers -- there's a handful of deadly assassins aboard a jet liner and they don't even have arms or legs in this airborne thriller. Neville Flynn (Samuel L. Jackson) is an FBI agent handling what seems like a routine assignment -- serving as bodyguard for Sean Jones (Nathan Phillips), a Hawaiian surfer dude who is flying to California to testify in a high-profile criminal trial after witnessing mobster Eddie Kim (Byron Lawson) murdering one of his underlings. However,
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Samuel L. Jackson
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Julianna Margulies
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Nathan Phillips
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Bobby Cannavale
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Kenan Thompson
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Lin Shaye
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David Koechner
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All Critics (179) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (122) | Rotten (57) | DVD (25)
Intentional low camp always seems wrong unless it's very funny; in trash, one wants clumsiness, even a certain tackiness, and this movie has the production values and the high-tech fluency of a much bigger movie.
Top CriticA triumph of high-concept but low-ambition filmmaking.
There's a certain knee-jerk impulse to bash Snakes, just because of all the ridiculous buildup, but the film delivers on its promise of reptilian fun, with a camp mix of comedy, horror and suspense.
The plot is ridiculous and the characters are cardboard, but none of that really matters once the snakes get into the fuselage and start zapping people, the very definition of entertainment.
This Internet-promoted lark about a Hawaii-to-L.A. flight besieged by a frenzied tangle of snakes is hilariously funny, full of fang-popping scares, and guaranteed to increase travel by train.
When 'fans' respond to an unabashedly silly title like Snakes on a Plane and start riffing on it, how seriously do they mean for their suggestions to be taken?
A movie about snakes on a plane does not need to be straightforward; it only has a shot if it is either genuinely scary or so incredibly over the top it's funny. Snakes on a Plane is neither, but maybe Snakes on a Boat will be better.
Few studio-supported films match its B-movie nirvana of stupid-goodness. It's exactly what its title suggests and more ? the proof in the primal levels ranging from basic exploited fears to the crowd?s roaring reactions and howls of humor or horror.
...the film feels oddly flat, generating more curiosity and laughter than actual thrills. (Blu-ray Edition)
A snarky genre exercise and its own late-night sketch parody, it parades nothing so much as the force of the public's lowered expectations
Although the film's production company New Line retooled the movie from a PG-13 to an R rating with ideas and dialogue from web fans, "Snakes On A Plane" is a boring ride.
It hurts so good. Mike, Cro, Tom, we need you...
Its genre elements are completely honed down to their basest elements and exploited for the most fun possible.
Even if viewed entirely on its own terms, this film, like any snake, tapers at its end.
it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Imposible tomarse en serio semejante disparate, pero lo que sí uno puede hacer es relajarse, echarse para atrás en el sofá, y disfrutar...
Its trash pic spirit locates funny nuances of human behaviour.
Audience Reviews for Snakes on a Plane
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- Troy: This Troy wait here! Next to me is my man Neville. He's my brother from anouther mother..
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- Neville Flynn: You are talking to the only man with flight experience.
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- Neville Flynn: I've had it with these mothafuckin' snakes, on this mothafuckin' plane! Everybody strap in, I'm about to open some fuckin' windows!
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- Neville Flynn: I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!
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- Neville Flynn: You are talking to the only man with flight experience.
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- Dr. Steven Price: Make it fast. Time is tissue.
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