(BLANKS) ON A PLANE.(ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT)

Byline: TOM ALESIA WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL

There's a plane over an ocean with snakes. Poisonous snakes. So it goes in the film "Snakes on a Plane." Given the film's initial online buzz (no hisses yet), director David Ellis pushed the B-movie into deeper, darker and, yes, sexier directions.

As a result, star Samuel L. Jackson uses more profanity, characters face nastier violence and there's more nudity.

I'm going out on a limb here: The nudity will not be the snakes.

Instead, some unknown actress will use her shirt and bra for a tourniquet, perhaps.

"Snakes on a Plane" will make lots of money when it opens Friday -- far more than …

(BLANKS) ON A PLANE.(ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT)

Byline: TOM ALESIA WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL

There's a plane over an ocean with snakes. Poisonous snakes. So it goes in the film "Snakes on a Plane." Given the film's initial online buzz (no hisses yet), director David Ellis pushed the B-movie into deeper, darker and, yes, sexier directions.

As a result, star Samuel L. Jackson uses more profanity, characters face nastier violence and there's more nudity.

I'm going out on a limb here: The nudity will not be the snakes.

Instead, some unknown actress will use her shirt and bra for a tourniquet, perhaps.

"Snakes on a Plane" will make lots of money when it opens Friday -- far more than …