2008 Woodie Awards
#$@*&!# Snakes on a #$@*&!# Plane… Enough Said.
Katie Pederson
Issue date: 9/4/06 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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Let me first start off another year of my entertainment column mania with a brief message to those new-to-the-Sandspur readers who might not be familiar with my movie review quirks. First of all, I rarely, if ever, give anything my unabashed seal of approval, and instead quite often conclude that most of the current churnings of the Hollywood machine are nothing but sleaze and uninventive garbage. Until-yes, ironic as it may sound - there came Snakes On A Plane.
Never beating around the proverbial bush, Snakes On A Plane defines its rather simplistic plot in the first ten minutes, saving the rest for its glorious self-titled amphibious action. Young surfer-boy Sean Jones, played the delicious Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek, Blackout), finds his Hawaiian-countryside motorcycle joyride cut short when he stumbles upon the brutal murder of an American prosecutor by a known criminal assassin, Chen. When the assassin sends his goons to find Sean, here steps in the butt-kicking FBI agent Neville Flynn to save the day , played by our beloved hero-star Samuel L. Jackson (Star Wars Episode I, Coach Carter, Shaft). Flynn's efforts to put the crime lord behind bars and protect the prosecution's new star witness lands himself and Sean in first class seats on an east-bound plane to Los Angeles, never suspecting that the deadly Chen, bent on killing his only remaining witness has released a crate containing over 450 venomous and pheromone-crazed snakes mid-flight onto the same plane. Flynn is forced to team up with the resourcefully brave flight attendants led by Claire Miller, (Julianna Margulies of the television sitcom ER fame), as well as other surviving passengers in a race against time, greed, and yes of course, SNAKES, for their lives.
Snakes On A Plane is the first-big blockbuster win for writers John Heffernan and Sebastian Gutierrez as well as director David R. Ellis (Cellular, Final Destination 2), better known for his work as a Hollywood stunt coordinator on films such as Days of Thunder and Patriot Games. As if the magnificent Samuel L. wasn't enough to get your blood pumping, Snakes On A Plane is rounded out by an incredible supporting cast of recognizable faces completed by the Nickelodeon-turned-SNL antics of Kenan Thompson, the Latina chic of Elsa Pataky, the ever "ditzy blonde" moments of maven Rachel Blanchard, and the dryly sarcastic British wit of Gerard Plunkett.
Never beating around the proverbial bush, Snakes On A Plane defines its rather simplistic plot in the first ten minutes, saving the rest for its glorious self-titled amphibious action. Young surfer-boy Sean Jones, played the delicious Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek, Blackout), finds his Hawaiian-countryside motorcycle joyride cut short when he stumbles upon the brutal murder of an American prosecutor by a known criminal assassin, Chen. When the assassin sends his goons to find Sean, here steps in the butt-kicking FBI agent Neville Flynn to save the day , played by our beloved hero-star Samuel L. Jackson (Star Wars Episode I, Coach Carter, Shaft). Flynn's efforts to put the crime lord behind bars and protect the prosecution's new star witness lands himself and Sean in first class seats on an east-bound plane to Los Angeles, never suspecting that the deadly Chen, bent on killing his only remaining witness has released a crate containing over 450 venomous and pheromone-crazed snakes mid-flight onto the same plane. Flynn is forced to team up with the resourcefully brave flight attendants led by Claire Miller, (Julianna Margulies of the television sitcom ER fame), as well as other surviving passengers in a race against time, greed, and yes of course, SNAKES, for their lives.
Snakes On A Plane is the first-big blockbuster win for writers John Heffernan and Sebastian Gutierrez as well as director David R. Ellis (Cellular, Final Destination 2), better known for his work as a Hollywood stunt coordinator on films such as Days of Thunder and Patriot Games. As if the magnificent Samuel L. wasn't enough to get your blood pumping, Snakes On A Plane is rounded out by an incredible supporting cast of recognizable faces completed by the Nickelodeon-turned-SNL antics of Kenan Thompson, the Latina chic of Elsa Pataky, the ever "ditzy blonde" moments of maven Rachel Blanchard, and the dryly sarcastic British wit of Gerard Plunkett.
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