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Article: `Snakes on a Plane'.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2006
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Byline: Roger Moore
Whaddaya expect when they set out to make a BAD movie, a B-movie, campy horror-disaster instant cult film?
Oh yeah, and a FUN one. At times. In bite-size doses.
Yeah, the snakes look fake. On-set snake-wrangler or no, nothing bites anybody anywhere in "Snakes on a Plane" that isn't digital or rubber.
Probably a good thing. Because it isn't so much where the snakes are, as where they bite you that is the source of the shock-laughs in the film from the ex-stuntman who did "Final Destination 2."
David R. Ellis manages to run an efficient shock machine here, with scenes that allow the audience to count down to ...