Snakes on a Plane

You know you've really made it when you are lampooned in popular culture. From the NYTimes review of Snakes on a Plane:

The filmmakers don't overplay the political angle, though they do squeeze in a Middle Eastern snake and a scene of an F.B.I. agent sneering about the A.C.L.U.

Does that sentence strike anyone else as funny? What would constitute overplaying the political angle--the Middle Eastern snake declaring jihad and taking over the cockpit?

The review continues:

Mostly, though, 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.

Good. I feel we could really use a little more of that right now.

Lisa in Pittsburgh