Snakes on a Plane Review
Real life already has stolen the thunder from this movie's title. We now know that water bottles and hair gel can be much more dangerous on planes. But snakes on planes, as this film so abundantly illustrates, can ruin your flight in so many ways. Thanks to the Internet and continual media attention, many of those ways already are well known. The minute an amorous couple slip into the coach cabin toilet, the giggles begin: We know what's going to happen to yooo-uuu! A guy eases into another toilet to take a leak and glances casually away. Wrong move, buddy!
So in the crudest terms, "Snakes on a Plane" delivers on its promise. This is a coolly efficient, tongue-in-cheek horror-comedy about poisonous snakes on a rampage at 30,000 feet. The snakes sink their fangs into a tongue, eye, penis, breast and ass. A boa even tries to swallow a man. A very large man. You'll never complain about those in-flight meals again. Things could be so much worse.
Opening weekend will, of course, be huge. Because the movie isn't nearly the rancid snake oil you might expect from New Line's 'fraidy cat no-press-screenings policy, the phenomenon may continue for several weeks. ........ ...............continue
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