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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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Snakes was the most exuberantly trashy delight of this summer movie season or last. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeTy Burr
A movie called Snakes on a Plane had better be one of two things: So bad it's good or so good it's great. Darned if it isn't a little bit of both. Read full review
88
PremiereJessica Letkemann
Why is this movie so watchable? Four simple reasons. It's truly funny. It's truly scary. It's truly gruesome. And Samuel L. Jackson is the cool head who prevails (“You stick with me, you live”). Read full review
75
New York PostKyle Smith
The film failed to be frightening, suspenseful or dramatic but accidentally succeeded in being absolutely hilarious. Read full review
75
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Looming large over all this is Jackson, who glowers and growls and acts the hero better than any actor out there. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
If you can find a better time at the movies this year than this wild comic thriller, let me in on it. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Hilariously funny, full of fang-popping scares, and guaranteed to increase travel by train. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
This is a coolly efficient, tongue-in-cheek horror-comedy. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
What they give us is the chance to win, not with righteous morality, but with an old-fashioned swagger that says, much like the film itself, Hey, we may be stupid, but we rock. Read full review
70
SlateDana Stevens
Who knows whether Snakes will have--forgive me--legs, but it's more than awesome enough to assure opening-weekend euphoria. Read full review
70
Dallas ObserverJim Ridley
There's something almost refreshingly venal about a movie with no purpose other than to meet intentions this cheesy. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
To be sure, Snakes on a Plane is going to inspire some highly readable graduate-school film theses. You may even want to re-enroll to pen one yourself. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Cheesy, campy B-movie fun, thanks mostly to the cadre of cobras and their ilk and also to Jackson (probably the only actor alive who could pull off this save-the-day bad ass movie role). Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
To an extent, Snakes on a Plane reminds me of "Eight Legged Freaks." It has the same kind of off-the-wall, don't-take-it-seriously comedic horror sensibility. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
There is also a capable, wisecracking stewardess (Julianna Margulies) and, what a surprise, a steward who appears to be doing a Paul Lynde impersonation. Read full review
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