Snakes on a Plane
New Line Cinema | Release Date: August 18, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
13
Negative:
3
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60
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
1. It has the potential to supplant "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" as the greatest audience participation movie of all time. 2. It is, simultaneously, one of the worst and best movies I’ve ever seen. Read full review
60
VarietyJustin Chang
Snakes on a Plane is exactly the sort of tasteless, utterly depraved, no-nonsense sluts-and-guts extravaganza it was meant to be. Read full review
60
SalonStephanie Zacharek
While Snakes on a Plane barely stands up as a movie, it definitely qualifies as an event. Read full review
60
EmpireKim Newman
It’s the sort of picture you'll either queue all night in the rain to see twelve times or avoid like a Wayans Brothers Retrospective for the rest of life. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
More potent than anything in Snakes on a Plane is the fantasy offscreen: that if enough people talk up their desire to see this film and, at the same time, take an overt delight in what an unabashed piece of junk it is, they will fuse with the hype, with the movie's mystique. They will not just watch Snakes on a Plane; they will own it. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerDavid Hiltbrand
This hotly anticipated film delivers on the premise of its celebrated title. But it offers little more in terms of suspense, originality or enjoyment. Mostly, it lays there on the screen like a big lazy boa. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Snakes on a Plane represents a fairly craven mixture of deliberate cheese and inadvertent lameness, plus fangs. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
The result is not quite a horror movie (too cheerful and can-do) or a thriller (too cheerful and stupid), nor does it parody itself or take itself seriously, thereby canceling out the camp factor. It's more like an improv sketch at 30,000 feet. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Nothing at all special. It's one more cheesy, broadly played, poorly paced, instantly forgettable August action movie. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The whole enterprise has the sweaty sheen that comes from trying too hard to be cool. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephen Hunter
The movie's highest level of artistic expression was the ingenious Internet campaign that catapulted it to culture phenom months before it even opened. The thing itself turns out to be pretty much an afterthought, cheesy and not very well worked out. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The plot is ridiculous and the characters are cardboard, but none of that really matters once the snakes get into the cabin and start zapping people, the very definition of entertainment. Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid Denby
The audience decided to sell Snakes to itself, and that became the event--the actual movie could never have been more than another exploitation picture. Read full review
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