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In honor of the opening of the dumbest movie event of the decade, I initially set out to find my favorite Snakes on a Plane trailer spoofs. The problem, perhaps not surprisingly, is that most of these shorts and mash-ups are amateurish, unfunny and lame – just like the movie itself.
Among the spoofs are "Snakes in a Drain," "Snakes on a Date," "Snakes on United 93" (a brave move, but the results are uninspired) and "Snakes on a Plane: the Ultimate Mashup," which combines every airplane in peril movie (from Air Force One to Flightplan to Red Eye to Passenger 57, etc.) in one somewhat amusing satirical package.
There's even a website "Blanks on a Blank," which hosts a dozen D.I.Y. projects from "Raccoons on a Space Shuttle " to "Sloths on a Tank" (so weird, it's my favorite).Still, even if most of the projects lack creativity or comedy or inspiration (except for that Sloths one, which I'll admit tickled me), they do tell us something: All the hubbub suggests an implicit critique of the studio system's high-concept formula filmmaking. Beneath all the jokes lies a serious concern: Hollywood is spent on original ideas.
