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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:19
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Aug 18, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $33,886,034
Synopsis: SNAKES ON A PLANE's magnificently self-explanatory title triggered a cascade of buzz and anticipation, and fans of truth in advertising will be relieved to learn that the movie lives up to its... [More]
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Bobby Cannavale
Director: David R. Ellis
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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.
Top CriticThere'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.
Top CriticThe 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.
Top CriticThis 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.
Top CriticWhen '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?
Top CriticLike the flailing airline industry -- which probably sent executives out for ice packs when they heard the title -- it gives you the ride you paid for, and nothing extra.
Top CriticThe movie is aware of its cheesiness, one reason it works so well. It's an exploitation flick that knows what it wants to do, and it gets the job done expertly.
Top CriticSnakes on a Plane is pure escapist fun and absolutely nothing more.
Top CriticSnakes was born dumb, but was then rendered ordinary.
Top CriticThe director, David R. Ellis, is not exactly Alfred Hitchcock -- he's often messy in his stagings -- but as his picture rattles along its thrill a minute flight plan he does manage to induce a certain amnesia about its preposterous premise.
Top CriticYou'll never complain about those in-flight meals again. Things could be so much worse.
Top CriticSamuel L. Jackson is on record as saying this movie isn't for critics. He's right about that. The problem is, it's not for many other people, either. Unless they're stoned. Or drunk. Or just enjoy making fun of bad movies.
Top Critic[We] have SoaP to remind us of what a B movie can be when it's produced with utter contempt for its target audience.
Top CriticWhether Snakes on a Plane means to be bad, or is just bad by being its own bad self, the truth is it's so bad that it's pretty good.
Top CriticSnakes is bad in a bland, calculated, marketing-is-all way, which is what you might expect from a movie that has been shaped around its marketing campaign from the jump (or from the slither, if you will).
Top CriticIt is a great cheeseball of silliness, a 'B' movie that has enough sense to embrace its 'B'-ness and then squeeze, like a boa constrictor. It is intentionally sublimely ridiculous from beginning to end.
Top CriticWhat, exactly, is the joke? If this cornball exploitation disaster movie had been called Anaconda 3: Flight of Fear (or, as was once planned, Pacific Air 121), we could all stop pretending that there was something exotically tacky about it.
Top CriticWithout that title and a year's worth of Internet-fueled buzz, this would be just another forgettable, mildly entertaining, mid-August throwaway movie.
Top CriticSnakes on a Plane could have been great, good-bad fun. All it had to do was live up to its name.
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