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Mom don’t read this entry. “Even dumber than Project Runway” alert!

Despite the ginormous internet buzz about the movie, and the fact that I thought it was all hilarious, I never did blog about Snakes on a Plane. If you don’t know what’s up with it, you should go read the Wikipedia entry about it. Biggest internet buzz about a movie ever, etc.

I did however send a personalized message from Samuel L. Jackson to all my friends. Seriously fun, go do it.

Anyway, the movie lived up to its’ title, and featured snakes. On a plane. And that was about it! It was B-movie thriller/horror at its’ best. A brainless, funny summer movie. Gratuitous blood and gore. Screaming, hissing and biting. Snakes lunging for necks and eyeballs. A snake bites a guy in the balls and a girl on the boob. Yeah, it’s like THAT. The whole time.

Samuel L. Jackson is at his stereotypical best, shouting at everyone (No, he can’t stop yellin’! This is how he talks! Haven’t you seen his movies?!), zapping snakes with a taser, a homemade blowtorch, a broken beer bottle and eventually even shooting one. Right before he depressurizes the cabin by shooting out a window, he shouts out his now-famous catchphrase, “I am tired of these muth*f*ckin’ snakes on this muth*f*ckin’ plane!” and the entire theater burst into applause and cheers. It was pretty surreal and I was cracking up the entire time.

Luckily the movie never takes itself seriously and it was just really fun to watch. Also when the snake pops out of the cargo hold at the main female character it made Jimmy jump out of his seat. First time I’ve EVER seen Jimmy get spooked by a popout in a movie. HA! Money’s worth, right there.

If you want to see a serious, scary movie don’t go see this, but if you want to laugh your butt off and have a good time then go get some snakes.

ETA: I should have thought of this first, but I didn’t. As with most great things on the internet, Kottke did. I earned the badge though.

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