THERE’S ALMOST NOTHING you need to know about the movie Snakes on a Plane that you didn’t get from the title. Samuel L. Jackson gets on a trans-Pacific flight. A few hundred poisonous snakes get loose in the cabin. Samuel L. Jackson handles it in a way that Richard Gere probably wouldn’t have. The end.
Aside from reinforcing the rule against disabling lavatory smoke detectors (pull it out of the wall and bam, the rattlesnake flies right out of the empty outlet) Snakes on a Plane doesn’t contain any enduring life lessons. However, hidden like a cottonmouth in an overhead storage bin, SoaP is a little parable about why the much-hyped left-wing blogosphere has turned out to be a less potent political force than it might be.
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