Review: Snakes on a Plane
*Spoiler Warning*
Snakes on a Plane
*End of Spoiler Warning*
Yes, it has arrived. And it - is - awesome. The most fun I've ever had in a movie theater.
Take your wildest expectations, double them, and you might begin to approach the level of mastery. Buy your tickets now. See it THIS weekend. Don't fucking wait. It's a communal cinematic experience and you'll want to be participating in the half of the movie that isn't on screen. The crowd's Hsssssssssing began during the previews(!) and didn't stop until the credits rolled. Get stupid and go be stupid. Talk during the movie and consume massive amounts of popcorn. We have snakes on our plane.
But isn't Snakes on a Plane a one-joke movie? Woah-ho-ho. Most definitely. And the punchline is a spectacular 106 minutes long.
Before the screening [NYC got 10PM showings before it opens nationwide on Friday] first we had previews; naturally. Preview #1: some WWI movie. It had lots of planes; but no snakes. Preview #2: a Samuel L. Jackson flick. Now we're getting somewhere. The audience went nuts, and that was before we got the name of the movie: Black Snake Moan. First planes, then snakes... then -after four or five more previews- then, ta da: Snakes on a Plane.
Hssssssssss.
Then the movie began. The opening credits rolling and Zzzzzzzzz. Some dude on his motorcycle? A couple minutes pass. I began to worry. Maybe this won't live up to all the stupid hype afterall. But then, in the instant the first dialogue is spoken, I burst out laughing. YES! I yelled, and began to Hsssssss. Could this movie really be this dumb AND entertaining? Yes, it could. And it was. I couldn't contain my laughing and slapping my knee in disbelief.
Instead of a few stunted moments in dialogue that seems to blemish modern films, most notably those touched by George Lucas, Snakes on a Plane celebrates these stunted moments. It begs to be interactive. When two flight attendants head towards the gate in the airport and ponder who else would be flying with them, there was only one answer, readily supplied by the audience: SNAKES!
Hssssssssssss.
Written from jerry yeti's cave at 12:56 AM
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5 Comments:
I hear it's something like French Lieutenant's Woman meets Gandhi. As both an ophidiophobe and an aviaphobe, I can only hope there are no snakes or planes in this film.
i love your spoiler warning and i'm glad you had fun...what a unique film going experience. I'm thinking if you want to experience this again, you'll have to go back this weekend and see it one more time while the crowds are full.
--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com
I'm sold.
could you tell me how far into the movie we have to travel before Samuel L. Jackson says, "I've had it with these mother f'in snakes, on this mother f'in plane?"
near the end... but lemme tell you, SLJ's introduction and first lines will have you cheering from the get-go.
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