I highly recommend playing the Snakes on a Plane Drinking Game (look it up) while viewing this film. I don’t know if I would have enjoyed it otherwise. As such, it was a blast.

Actually, the whole movie is worth it for the music video at the end. Oh heck, just listen to the song.

Well… it was just as dumb and formulaic as I expected, but not quite as fun. Worth seeing just for the awfulness, but mostly… Oh, OK, it was just shit. I’m glad I saw it, but only cos it set my mind at ease about it being shit.

Wonderful! See it in the theatre if you can. It was a great experience! This is the kind of movie you can watch over and over.

I loved this movie. I found it hilarious. I also found that nearer towards the ending, it caused a lot of suspense.

I expected this to be a badly acted out movie or something but I enjoyed it, I only went to see it for a laugh and in the end I got many.

I recommend this movie for those who won’t take the movie too seriously. If there is a sequeal, ahh… that would be terrible.

Not worth viewing – overhyped and underperforming no matter what genre you want to put it into. The media bus for this ride has now stopped.

Hollywood has processed airborne paranoia into some fairly odd forms over the past few years, but none more closely resembles a fever dream than Snakes On A Plane. How to describe it?

A $33m viral clip with an A-list leading man? Had the blogosphere not gonenuts for this movie, it might well have shed its astonishingly literal title, lost a chunk of its funding, been fronted by a has-been or a nobody and gone straight to video. Instead, well, it became what Wiredreferred to as “the best worst movie of the year” months before it was even released.

A throwback to the Seventies heyday of ludicrous aviation-disaster flicks? The insanely implausible threat, the cast of neurotics, stoics and unfortunates, the histrionics and heroics – all hearken to the kind of film that Airplane was supposed to have finished off for good. Even the interior of South Pacific Airlines 121 looks like it was last refurbished in 1974.

A particularly eccentric take on the “postmodern slasher” subgenre pioneered by Scream? The unpleasantly sadistic nature of the deaths in this film speak more to murderous gross-out than tongue-in-cheek disaster, and it obeys the rules: the first to die are a young couple busy toking and joining the Mile High Club … drug use and casual sex is apparently still punishable by death in the movies.

An instant camp classic in the vein of Showgirls, complete with rubber snakes, shout-along quotes, call-and-response and the rest? (In this respect, going to see it weeks after release in a virtually empty hall might not have been the smartest idea.) A movie whose makers know that you know that they know that nobody is taking this remotely seriously – except the unfortunate critics, who have no choice but to offer up their utterly redundant verdicts.

Or all of the above, plus a few other tropes and tricks borrowed from randomly from all over the place? There’s an air stewardess who has “just one flight left” before she graduates (does this imply that “flight attendant” is now as risky an occupation as “cop”?). There’s a (probably unintentional) Cronenberg-lite moment when two characters become aroused by an impromptu medical procedure. There’s state-of-the-art herpetological special effects, culminating in a chihuahua-eating anaconda, for pete’s sake.

I don’t know what the hell Snakes On A Plane is. The secret of its unlikely success may be that it doesn’t either.

(Paraphrased from something I sent a friend this morning)

After seeing twenty minutes of previews, including one for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel, and speculating quitting my day job to write better screenplays, I was hoping Snakes On A Plane (SOAP) would be a good, bad movie.

Had the producers stuck to making the movie in an intentionally self-parodying way, interjecting puns and quotable one-liners, it would have been enjoyable. Or, had they kept it entirely serious, yet failed in a cheesily humorous and external way (think Dawn of the Dead), it would have been enjoyable.

Instead, they were indecisive. The beginning starts with the irrelevant subplot of the Bad Guy who will eventually be blamed for orchestrating the Snakes On The Plane as a way to assassinate the Lone Eyewitness Who Could Put Him Away For Life. That would been the hallmark of a serious movie gone bad.

Later, on the plane, after the snakes have been released, people are being bitten in improbably PG-13/R places. The deliberately ridiculous and gratuitous violence easily indulged the juvenile side of my sense of humor.

But, by the third act, they had exhausted their CGI budget and Places To Have Snakes Bite People. It seemed they wanted to end the movie. Insert the obviously dubbed “I’m MF tired of these MF snakes” line, land the GD plane, roll the MF credits, and show the music video at the end. AAGDTYCDAI.

Wait for it on Netflix and enjoy the (I hope) blooper reel.

i didnt watch like over half the movie. my eyes were covered the whole time. (i’ve very squeemish and very frightful). and before you ask why i even saw it, i went with my boyfriend, who loved it.

Doesn’t live up to the hype. Beyond dreadful movie.

I’d probably have more fun platting my own arsehair.

Ahhh What a good movie! Granted, I was following up with the online buzz but eh, anyone can still love this movie! I missed the premier because I was out on a canoeing trip in Canada (which was awesome so I have no regrets.) I’ve gotten my triple crown of tickets now, seeing it with 3 different groups of friends because I told so many people about the movie and they all wanted to go with me. I don’t want to spoil any of the plot, but it is enough to say that the writers came up with creative ways for people to die. Also this one line in the movie is asolutely amazing; I won’t spoil it but you can’t miss it. Try to see it with a sizable audience, half the reason it was so great is the audience response. Honestly though, one of the best movies ever.

The best time I’ve had in a movie theater in a long time.

put simply, this movie was exactly what i wanted it to be.

WE WERE ALL LIED TO! When the Internet hype began, there was a very clear attempt to portray Snakes on a Plane as the 21st century’s first true big name B-movie, but this is no B-movie. Sure, it’s outrageously contrived, but even the filmmakers acknowledge that winkingly throughout the movie. Jackson gives his usual, sturdy, intense performance, but it’s obvious he’s having a blast. Even the effects are better than average. This movie is a wild thrill ride of a film and is much better than it has any right to be.

(Posted from Allconsuming )

Missy and I saw Snakes on a Plane last night, and it was the most fun I’ve ever had at a movie. The theatre was huge, but only half full. Still the crowd was really into it, lots of cheering and yelling.

Everything about SOAP was pure fun.

My opinions aren’t going to sway anyone one way or the other, but I have to say something. While it’s not a good movie, it’s crazy fun, especially if you have a theater full of rowdies that enjoy yelling at the screen. We had a pretty lively crowd (although nothing like crowd in the story below), and the movie was five times better than it should have been. It’s ridiculous and anticlimactic (how is the ending going to top SIXTY MINUTES OF SNAKES ATTACKING PEOPLE???), but it was a buttload of awesome. It’s not very good, but I liked it.

Your flight crew would like to make the following ten helpful suggestions and observations for your maximum enjoyment of Snakes on a Plane:

1. Take the rowdiest crowd - one who would line up at least 100-people deep an hour before the film begins - and fill the theater with it.

2. Bring rubber snakes. Toss them into the air whenever someone dies a grisly death or does something heroic. (It was literally raining snakes at the Metreon earlier this evening.)

3. Have the crowd be drunk.

4. Consuming two or three pints yourself doesn’t hurt either.

5. Cheer and hoot whenever Samuel L. Jackson says something vaguely tough / funny / menacing. (Actually, cheer when the previews begin, cheer when the movie itself begins, cheer when you see the first shot of Honolulu International Airport, and cheer when you see the plane take off. That’ll get you all excited.)

6. A closeup of pus oozing from a snakebite wound provokes much cringing and laughing.

7. So does a snake crawling up a woman’s skirt.

8. And a guy having his penis bitten by a snake.

9. Hiss loudly whenever it’s quiet or one of the characters on screen goes somewhere they shouldn’t.

10. Yell “Snakes!” whenever it’s semantically appropriate.

I don’t think I’ve ever emerged from a movie hoarse before. Two words, folks: see it.

[I should qualify what I wrote above with three words instead: see it now. The freshness date on this movie won’t last long, and I don’t foresee a long shelf life on DVD either. But still: my friends and I have four souvenir snakes from last night, after being literally pelted with them all night long. Is that cool or what?]

I don’t know if there will ever be another film like Snakes on a Plane. A strange combination of low expectations and hype has created a meta-film that is more than the sum of its parts. The key elements are the title and the involvement of Samuel L. Jackson. While he is a talented actor, he will take chances and doesn’t seem to be very elitist when it comes to choosing roles. Without Jackson and the stories around it, this would be a film that would show up on cable and DVD, but Jackson is so much fun to watch that the moment he shows up on screen it all changes. While there was a bit too much gore at the beginning and a somewhat clumsy nude scene, the film hits a good rhythm and is fun. When Jackson says his famous line (which has never been seen until tonight!) – “I have had it with these mo…” (you’re on the internet reading this, so you probably know what it is) – there was a huge cheer and applause in the theatre. I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a reaction like that to a new film. It’s an experience and it was fun and as for the excesses and improbabilities in the film… it has built-in anti-venom – it’s Snakes on a Plane, what else could you expect?