DVD : Snakes on a Plane (Widescreen New Line Platinum Series)

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starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips (II), Rachel Blanchard, Flex Alexander
directed Author name: David R. Ellis

 : Snakes on a Plane (Widescreen New Line Platinum Series)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rated by buyers R (Restricted)
Type of bind: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN num: 0794043105487
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Quantity: 1
Publishing house: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 02, 2007
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 10815
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 18, 2006




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Description:
On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, let loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurette
Gag Reel
Music Video
TV Spot
Theatrical Trailer




Amazon.com:
Snakes on a Plane knows exactly what kind of movie it is, knows exactly what moviegoers expect from a title like Snakes on a Plane, and delivers the exact pleasures of a movie in which poisonous snakes are unleashed on a plane to kill an eyewitness to murder. Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, The Long Kiss Goodnight) knows exactly what he's doing in this movie and knows exactly when to pull out the superbad Samuel L. Jackson stare and deliver the infuriated Samuel L. Jackson bellow. The rest of the cast--including Julianna Margulies (ER), Rachel Blanchard (the TV series Clueless), Kenan Thompson (Fat Albert), David Koechner (Anchorman), Bobby Canavale (The Station Agent), and Sunny Mabrey (One Last Thing...)--play their parts with admirably straight faces and deadpan humor. Director David R. Ellis (Final Destination 2, Cellular) gives the movie the much-needed headlong momentum you would expect from a former stunt coordinator. In summation: A perfect piece of self-aware but not self-conscious high camp entertainment, blending comedy and thrills in perfect proportion. --Bret Fetzer



Customer Reviews
User popularity level:  out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 1 out of 5 stars - BOOOO....Hissssss
I wish I could come up with even ONE reason to see this film...one incident, one unwitting mistake, one camera angle...anything...but I cannot. If you HAVE to see it for some reason, slither away fast and try to erase it from your memory as soon as you can.



Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Enjoyable and silly fun
This is a great laugh, with some good action & quite a lot of gore. It's an enjoyably daft blockbuster with some scenes that go back to disaster movie cliches, but in an enjoyable way. Recommended.



Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Adults--believe it or not, you may enter without undue caution
While thriller/horror films are my "guilty pleasure," I'm generally found watching something allegedly more substantial. I pre-judged SNAKES as a computer graphic animation fest for adolescent gamers. Well, I guess, gulp, that it is, kind of, sort of. But as the very clear-eyed Amazon review suggests, this film knows itself. Early on I laughed when, before passengers or crew are aware of the impending situation, a snake below deck strikes and severs a power cord: "We've lost our avionics!" Well, folks, if the jet's electrical systems are gone, that's all she wrote. Some hilarious stuff, some intentional, some perhaps less so; but this is a Big B-C-D Cup Hollywood Film out to make us happy and there are a few little surpises for even the most jaded thriller fan--even if most of us would not admit it to the wife or friends at work. Go ahead, proceed--with mild caution. With modest expectations, you just might have a little fun.



Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Snakes on a Plane!!??!!
Snakes is a fun movie, but has absoultey no reedeming quailites, except for the fact that is fun. chances are good, you will not watch it many more times than one or two,but for the price that i picked it up for (about 42 cents) it is worth it. much cheeper than going to the movies.

-willh09



Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - OH - THE HUMANITY!!!!
After a year of insane hype, the ridiculous movie that spawned it finally arrived. Deliriously cheesy, S.O.A.P. is a riotous blend of Nature Runs Amok and In-Flight Terror subgenres. It plucks the best elements of both and tosses in a bit of TV Cop Show witness protection intrigue for good measure. Beginning and ending with beach montages, (Which threw us considering the film is about an airplane. During the opening credits - which slide from beach shots to dirtbike stunts with all the narrative grace of a Mountain Dew commercial - we wondered if we were in the right theater?".)

Nathan Phillips, the motorcrosser in the opening, witnesses a bloody mob hit in Hawaii and is immediately almost taken out by members of the Eddie Kim gang. Luckily, Agent Samuel L. Jackson whisks him away to the safety of police custody in a hilariously hambone hotel-room shootout. From here we move to the airport - where you'll be thrilled to be out of the leafy wilds of Hawaii and into the sterile, claustrophobia-inducing halls and compartments of the travel industry.

Right off the bat, we're introduced to our flight crew, which features a few working girls, a sexually aggressive co-pilot, and even a token "Air-Mary" (or at least he seems to be). In the tradition of clichéd cop movies, Juliana Margulies is on her "last day on the job" and just wants it to be an easy one; however, somewhat NOT in the tradition of clichéd cop movies, she's not a cop - she's a stewardess. And we also learn that the chief baddie has decided to fill the plane with snakes, disguised as Hawaiian leis (don't ask), in order to kill off witness Phillips. (Already we're delighted at how the conventions of our various thriller subgenres are being appropriated, customized, retro-fitted, and inflated to bursting.)

Next we meet the passengers, who range from generic stereotypes (the fat woman in the muumuu; the kids flying alone for the very first time) to outright celebrity parody (Rachel Blanchard as a blonde bimbo with a tiny purse-dog name Mary-Kate, who throws herself at Flex Alexander's germophobe rap star). This is all well and good because we just know that these idiots are going to be snake-bait in mere moments. (But honestly - don't think too hard about anything in this movie, because it doesn't pay. All we need is to fill plane with snakes, add passengers, stir and enjoy.)

Once the snakes arrive, this endearing little B-movie kicks into high-gear. The fanged stowaways start attacking and they pretty much don't stop for the duration, giving us dozens of hilarious attacks with a fairly hefty body count. The clichés also arrive in ferocious number - (The noble stewardess ventures back into the snake-ridden coach cabin to save the missing baby; the inevitable "is there anyone on board who can fly a plane?"), and with so many delicious snake incidents in between, it's pretty hard to get bored with the "story".

Since 'SNAKES' makes no endeavor to rise above its B-movie premise, (and actually seems quite happy to wallow the ridiculous excesses it creates), it's very hard to get angry at it. The only thing that bothered us was the handling of the film's "gay" character, who ends up not being gay.

Yes, the gay-seeming steward who spends the movie clapping and looking wide-eyed and offering to suck the venom out of fat men's behinds ends up being a total hetero, which is kind of a dated joke and a bit of a screw-you to anyone who actually enjoyed the fact that a gay character was somewhat heroic, helpful, sensitive, and alive by the last reel. (And just why are the other stewardesses shocked that he's hugging his girlfriend at the end? Have they never had a conversation with this man during their 5-hour flights?) The filmmakers seem to be patting the homophobes in the audience on the head and saying, "it's alright to have liked that character because he's straight after all! Now get back to defacing pictures of Clay Aiken".

Anyway, this isn't high art but it's certainly worth your time. SNAKES ON A PLANE is fangy, frothy fun.


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