Movie minute

Give us a hiss: Jim and I went to see the summer blockbuster Snakes On A Plane. We went with two girls from church, one of whom is deathly afraid of snakes. Let me just say that afraid is not a word I would use to describe someone's emotional state during this movie. Samuel L. Jackson plays badassssss agent who is assigned to protect a witness to a murder. In an effort to do away with the witness, the killer decides to put a crate full of deadly and I mean deadly snakes on the plane. Logic and belief are thrown out the cockpit door in this movie. I laughed more during this movie than I did during the last ten comedies I've seen. This is camp at its classiest. During one shocking/hilarious scene, the two people sitting several rows down from us got out of their seats and whooped it up because of what had just happened on screen. This movie doesn't even try to be serious; not even the snake expert is a serious character. Julianna Margulies (of ER fame) plays one of the flight attendants who is on her last flight before becoming a lawyer. One (soon to be classic, no doubt) scene has a flight attendant offering to suck the venom out of a fleshy body part of one of the passengers. I won't spoil it by describing it here but it's hysterical. If the filmmakers are smart they kept the bloopers (all of them) and will be offering a blooper deluxe on the DVD. Everyone in the theater laughed during the movie and at the most (in)appropriate parts. This movie offers it straight up and then some. And stick around for the music video during the end credits. A contest was had to see who would score the song for the movie. The group that won, Cobra Starship, can be seeing yukking it up in the video at the end of the movie. The sequel can star Samuel and Julianna on a boat during their honeymoon and the title will read: Snakes On A Boat: The Snakes Bite Back.

I rate the dialogue and acting of this movie 1 bag of popcorn (out of 5). The camp, however, gets a 5.

peace,

paul