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Snakes on a Plane (2006)

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 170
Fresh: 116 | 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.

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Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 15

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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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 438,140

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Movie Info

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,

R, 1 hr. 46 min.

Action & Adventure, Horror, Mystery & Suspense

John Heffernan

Jan 2, 2007

$33.9M

New Line Cinema

Cast

All Critics (177) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (121) | 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.

August 28, 2006 Comment
New Yorker
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A triumph of high-concept but low-ambition filmmaking.

August 21, 2006 Comment
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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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.

August 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | Comment
Newark Star-Ledger
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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.

August 18, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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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.

August 18, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
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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?

August 18, 2006 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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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.

March 30, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
ComingSoon.net

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.

October 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com | Comment
Suite101.com

...the film feels oddly flat, generating more curiosity and laughter than actual thrills. (Blu-ray Edition)

October 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

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

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
CinePassion

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.

April 21, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

It hurts so good. Mike, Cro, Tom, we need you...

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Cinema Crazed

Its genre elements are completely honed down to their basest elements and exploited for the most fun possible.

July 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Stranger Song | Comment
Stranger Song

Even if viewed entirely on its own terms, this film, like any snake, tapers at its end.

July 2, 2007 Full Review Source: musicOMH.com | Comment
musicOMH.com

it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

May 27, 2007 Comment

Imposible tomarse en serio semejante disparate, pero lo que sí uno puede hacer es relajarse, echarse para atrás en el sofá, y disfrutar...

May 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | Comment
Uruguay Total

Its trash pic spirit locates funny nuances of human behaviour.

March 15, 2007 Full Review | Comment

With entertainment this cardboard and weightless, isn't a response like disappointment disproportionately complex?

January 30, 2007 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | Comment (1)
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Audience Reviews for Snakes on a Plane

I cannot stress to anyone reading this review how hard it is for me to see why people didn't like this movie. Everyone I know loathes it! It's good ok. Simply because you get what you went to the cinema or popped the disc into your dvd player for. Snakes on a Plane. It makes good use of its budget and large cast of

October 29, 2011
Michael M.
Michael Miller

Super Reviewer

There's no possible way to defend Snakes on a Plane in any way, and I wouldn't try to. I have to admit that for the most part, I enjoyed it... at least for the garbage that it really is. It's hard to get into a movie about snakes without one real snake in the entire movie. It's basically a cross between a creature

December 24, 2007
FilmFanatik
Tim Salmons

Super Reviewer

    1. Neville Flynn: You are talking to the only man with flight experience.
    – Submitted by Liam W (14 days ago)
    1. Dr. Steven Price: Make it fast. Time is tissue.
    – Submitted by Liam W (14 days ago)
    1. Neville Flynn: I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!
    – Submitted by Andrew T (5 months ago)
    1. Neville Flynn: Do as I say, and you live.
    – Submitted by Sheluyang P (7 months ago)

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