This Should Work

Sunday night I saw Snakes On A Plane and found it to be good, gory movie that at times forgets what it is: a B-movie with loads of hype.

The movie starts off slow; after the first ten minutes of this movie I found myself asking ‘where are the damn snakes? Get to damn snakes already!’ But ten minutes later, after a brief introduction of all the characters, the plane was in the air and snakes were let loose.; this is when things started to get fun.

The snakes slithered their way through the cabin finding every little opening to wreak havoc and kill passengers. Some of the human deaths are a little disturbing (especially one guywho dies in the lavatory, it had me curled up in a ball in my seat) and some of the snake deaths are pretty amusing (one flight attendent throws a snake into a microwave and sets the timer for two minutes, he then starts talking trash to the snake until it explodes which sents him screaming the other direction).

As much fun as it was watch Samuel L. Jackson be a badass and kill snakes with tazers, broken bottles, and harpoon guns, he doesn’t have enough badass lines. There are maybe two or three memoryable Sam Jackson quotes from this movie- the one in the trailer (”I’m mother##@$ing tired of these mother*&%#ing snakes!”) and another line at the end (my wife’s favorite) “All hail the Playstation 2.”

I also expected this movie to give a nod to the audience, as if to say ‘we know it’s bad too,’ but it never does; this movie takes thinks it’s a serious thriller, not a B-Movie.

Snakes On A Plane won’t break any box office records, but it’ certainly a fun ride.

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