When a young man witnesses a brutal mob murder, it falls to FBI agent Neville Flynn to escort his charge safely from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify. But in an act of self-preservation, the crime boss facing prison smuggles hundreds of poisonous snakes onto the commercial aircraft in a crate timed to release its deadly cargo halfway over the Pacific. Flynn, along with a frightened flight crew and passengers, must then band together in a desperate attempt to survive.

At one point during the production of Snakes on the Plane they were going to change the title to a much more ambiguous and far more lame title of Pacific Air Flight 121. But when the internet fans of the title heard of this change they were up in arms over the new title forcing the studio to stick with the much more straightforward title of Snakes on a Plane which is quite fitting for the movie. The movie isn't ambiguous at all, like its title it's very straight forward, its mother f&%^#ing snakes on a mother f&%^#ing plane to quote Samuel L. Jackson. Trying to hide what the movie is with a lame title would have been a sham, and the movie didn't need such posturing because fans and the media had already fallen in love with the movie, simply from its fun and cheeseball title. The movie is just that it is fun and very cheeseball, if you were expecting a masterpiece of storytelling and character development you will be very disappointed but if you were expecting snakes on a plane that's what the movie delivers and delivers well.

Snakes on a Plane reminded me of two movies for different reasons, the first being Starship Troopers. If you wanted a movie that was nothing more than a ninety-minute excuse to be cheesy this movie is the king of all recent cheesy movies. Snakes on a Plane may have taken its crown with the same simple storyline and the same simple approach to a movie. Instead of a sci-fi adventure where they are shooting bugs on bug world, it’s a plane full of snakes that must be warded off at all costs. From a boa constrictor trying to swallow a man's head to the sex in the plane bathroom scene the movie seems to take pride in raising the cheese level to new heights. And I am sorry some people might not like these kinds of movie but I am not one of them. A movie this simple, is a thing of beauty, because you find yourself squirming in your seat and enthralled despite the fact you know what is going to happen and there is no real plot to the movie. One might think it is easy to obtain a cult cheesy movie, it is not and many a cheeseball movie has fallen to the wayside, while on the other hand Snakes on a Plane may reside for years as the king of cheese.

The other movie that I was reminded of when seeing Snakes on a Plane is Alfred Hitchcock's the Birds and while Hitchcock may have done it better, Snake on a Plane delivers the same frights his movie delivered over forty years ago. That is what this movie is about, fright and terror and basking in the delight of some people’s fears. If you are afraid of snakes I would highly recommend you stay away from this movie because some of the scenes will scare the bejesus out of you. Why I think Hitchcock did it better is because he didn't resort to something a lot of people are terrified of, snakes, instead he used birds a much less terrifying animal to instill the same feeling of terror. He also didn't have to resort to the gruesome images Snakes on a Plane used. Both movies have their charm though and both movies are fun and entertaining.

I like Samuel L. Jackson but lately he seems to have lost all range as an actor. He is playing the same characters over and over with very little twists and very little changes in how he portrays the characters he is supposed to be playing. I never really bought him as an FBI agent because he was in that bad ass, bad guy kind of motif for the most of the movie. But hey he's not the star of the film; the star of the film was the snakes. I am not normally afraid of snakes but the movie did a fair job at scaring the bejesus out of me at times all the same. The other star is supposed to be Nathan Phillips but he is barely in the movie and when he is there it is quite obvious that he hasn't been acting very long as he truly is not that good of an actor. So you need to sit back and let some mother f&%^#ing snakes on a mother f&%^#ing plane scare the hell out of you while they entertain you all at the same time.

Grade: B+