While many misguided critics will inevitably dismiss Snakes on a Plane as overhyped camp juvenile kitsch for the filmgoing masses, it is in fact not only a sly satire on bombastic disaster movies, but also a subversive, acute, astute, piercing and profound meditation covering a range of sensitive issues: 9/11, "the enemy within", Satanism, lynch-mob hysteria, racism, the environmental drawbacks of air travel (alongside the transporting of wildlife and wider tampering with nature), the recent disastrous failings of the FBI and other intelligence agencies, absurd and ultimately self-defeating Western definitions of "terrorism" and the "war on terror", corporate hypocrisy, the malicious influence of the internet (witness the crafty insertion of expectant website dialogue!), Hollywood's relentless publicity machine, and public gullibility in the age of mass media, rampant conspiracy theories and Dan Brown's infamous The Da Vinci Code.