Saturday, August 19, 2006

All you need to know about "Snakes on a Plane"

From The Washington Post:

The movie's highest level of artistic expression was the ingenious Internet campaign that catapulted it to cultural phenom months before it even opened. The thing itself turns out to be pretty much an afterthought, cheesy and not very well worked out. Once the basic situation is defined -- people here, snakes there, snakes want to come in here, no place to run, no place to land and we're 40,000 feet over an ocean -- the movie just reiterates itself time and time again. Meanwhile, it traffics, most unfortunately, in the broadest sort of cultural cliche. Worse, the cast, with the exception of recognizable middle-tier star Samuel L. Jackson and third-tier names Julianna Margulies and Kenan Thompson, is mostly nondescript. Really, you'll see more attractive and talented people in the food court of any mall than most of the non-star people in this film.

Or as Pete Abrams of Sluggy Freelance fame observed it will be the coolest movie ever except for the part about it not being very good.