emmelinemay | It does exactly what is says on the tin

Snakes on a Plane TOTALLY ROCKED!!

The CGI is pretty clunky, and the plot is absoultely ludicrous, but the thing is, this film KNOWS it's ludicrous, and it goes for it all out. It's like Airplane, with snakes. From the first moment you see Sammy L, the audience cheers, and that pretty much sets the audience standard. I can't remember a time when i last went to the cinema and people were actually clapping, cheering adn whOOping at scenes in the film ,through joy or amusement or sheer indredulity.

The moment when Sammy L says the already immortal line, possibnly the most anticipated line in the history of cinema, the audience cheers as if he could hear.

It's not really scary, unless you REALLY hate snakes (i thought they were rather cute actually. particularly the 'boa constrictor'. That had teeth. And roared.), but it *is* very jumpy - i don't often jump at films, but this got me several times, and once even elicted a *woooooo* at the same time. Saving grace is that moment got the *WHOLE* audience, which just made it even funnier.

The film pretty much has your standard stock for distaster films, cute young innocent luke-skywalker-accidental-hero type, Alpha Male (and all HAIL Sammy L who just EXUDES cool.), small frightened children, materialistic heiress, famous rapper, single mother, brave-and-beautiful cabin crew, small animals...the only thing missing is a nun.

And it all works - as long as you just go with it. Dont' look for plot hols or bad CGI or dodgy acting or unbeleiveable scenarios. It's liek one of those rides at a theme park which looks totally lame tghat turns out to be awesome, and all the more so because you thoguh it was going to be lame. (those with me on the 'duck flume' at Alton Towers will know what i mean...'

I could go on at great length about the history of the horror/distaster genre, and bore you all with my theory about how genres survive by resorting to self parody, but i can't be arsed...Suffice to say this has all the generic traditions of your typical disaster/horror, and it milks each and every one for all it's worth.

It's probably the cleverest stupid film i've seen in a long time.

If you don't have a serious phobia of snakes, go see, not forgetting to leave your brain and your dignity at the door :)

oh, and p.s. - stay for the credits to see