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Upgrade to PremiumTrailerFilmmaker Terri Flores is traveling deep in the Amazon jungle looking for a forgotten tribe. But her film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest, and deadliest, snake.Actors: Jennifer Lopez,Ice Cube,Jon Voight,Eric Stoltz,Jonathan Hyde,Owen Wilson,Kari Wuhrer,Vincent Castellanos,Danny Trejo,Frank WelkerCountry: United StatesQuality: HDIMDb: 4.7Keywords:- Played by: Jennifer LopezPlayed by: Ice CubePlayed by: Jon VoightPlayed by: Eric StoltzPlayed by: Jonathan HydePlayed by: Owen WilsonPlayed by: Kari WuhrerPlayed by: Vincent CastellanosPlayed by: Frank Welker
- Birthdate: 1951, Lima, Peru
- Birthdate: 17 January 1941, Boyne City, Michigan, USA
Anaconda, directed by Luis Llosa with all of the subtlety of a snake-oil salesman, is in the great tradition of cinematic cheese, as processed as Kraft Singles slices.
A silly and plodding Jaws rip-off about a 40-foot man-eating snake on the prowl in the Brazilian rain forest.
One never questions the realism of the remarkable animatronic and computer-generated effects, but it's hard to credit a snake that screams.
Anaconda is about a snake that eats everybody. That about says it all.
Anaconda is such a classic combination of feckless dramaturgy and rampant excess that giving way to giggles is the only sane response.
A trashily entertaining reptilian version of Jaws set in the steaming heart of the Amazon rain forest.
Aiseesoft review. An above average specimen hungering for tasty morsels.
Just to show, early on, how much danger these folks are in, we get to see the film's titular star squeeze a black panther so tight that one of its eyeballs pops out.
In its natural habitat, Anaconda can be appreciated for its campy pleasures, not the least of which is Jon Voight in a delirious, balls-out performance as creepy Paraguayan snake poacher Paul Serone. [Blu-ray]
..never quite lives up to the promise of its admittedly irresistible set-up..
lives better in the memory
Luis Llosa's Anaconda is great 'B' movie trash, complete with bad special effects and cheesy monsters.
We look back on 1997's snake-themed horror film to see if a great cast and enough silliness can save a terrible script.
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Twenty years after its release, Anaconda (1997) remains both a terrible and amazing B-movie. A documentary film crew sail down the Amazon River in search of a lost tribe and are stalked by a 40-foot animatronic snake (we are, of course, supposed to believe it is real). This sounds like an unearthed cult classic, but director Luis Llosa had a decent $45 million budget. It ranked number one at the domestic box office. And it made more than $136 million worldwide. Not bad considering it was almost universally panned by critics, with a rating of 38 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and six Razzie nominations.
There were predictable howls about this being yet another Spielberg rip-off. (If this is what you are looking for, watch the amazing Joe Dante/Roger Corman 1978 film Piranha). But Anaconda is less Jaws, and more Jaws 3. The creature feature has a nonsensical plot, over-the-top acting, and special effects that haven’t held up. But if you stop wondering if you’re supposed to be laughing, it really is an enjoyable, ridiculous adventure.
In 1997, disaster films dominated the US box office. The top three earners were Titanic, Men in Black, and The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Similar releases included Dante’s Peak, Volcano, and Event Horizon. Action films were also hugely successful—the top ten included Air Force One, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The Fifth Element. It is not a total surprise that Anaconda ranks 23rd, but it is still pretty impressive for a film about a killer snake.
The fun of Anaconda is all in the casting. I’m assuming that the eclectic group of recognizable actors was what encouraged viewers: Oscar-winner Jon Voight lent some prestige, Eric Stoltz was familiar from his many film and television roles, and in the previous two months Jennifer Lopez had played Jack Nicholson’s mistress in Blood and Wine and the title role in the biopic Selena. Plus, who wouldn’t want to see Ice Cube fight a snake?
The eight characters are a collection of types that are standard and so completely predictable that no character development is needed (or offered). They are so straightforward that you really have no stake in their survival, but not caring means that it is much easier to watch their number dwindle. Lopez is the tough, sexy director (who surprisingly never takes her clothes off, which left much of the audience disappointed—T&A is absolutely expected in this type of movie). The anthropologist (Stoltz) is her lover and the film’s financier (snooze). Ice Cube is the down-to-earth cameraman who gets shit done. I am 100 percent here for the ridiculously snooty English host Westridge (Jonathan Hyde) who brings champagne, uses the deck like a golf range, and says things like “I'm not your bloody poodle!” It is obvious that devious skipper Mateo (Vincent Castellanos), hippie sound-guy Gary (Owen Wilson), and fun producer Denise (Kari Wuhrer) are going to go first.
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What is a surprise is Voight. His take on Serone, a villainous ex-priest turned snake hunter, is something else. He is a warped throwback to an old-timey villain, the type that ties damsels to train tracks. He is excessively creepy and so transparently untrustworthy that it would not have been surprising had he turned to camera and gone “Muahahaha!” But his agonizing attempt at an accent, unnatural pacing, and exaggerated sneering is absolutely torturous—seriously, he makes falling prey to that snake seems desirable.
Serone scams his way onto the boat and proceeds to use everyone as bait in his quest to capture the anaconda. (You know: Man is the real monster, etc.) We’re supposed to believe it’s for the money, but really Serone is seemingly in love with this snake. “Buenos noches, beautiful,” he marvels when it appears. Try not to laugh when he described how “They strike, wrap around you, hold you tighter than your true love, and you get the privilege of hearing your bones break before the power of embrace causes your veins to explode.”
The plot is wonderfully ridiculous, surrendering any pretence at accuracy. This snake is so very dangerous because it defies the rules of nature (and gravity). Anacondas do not grow that long. They do not hatch from eggs. And they definitely do not scream. If this amped-up snake isn’t scary enough, there’s also a reference to that urban myth about Candiru, the tiny fish that are said to swim up the urethra and lodge themselves with their painful spines.
What makes Anaconda even odder is that it is unusually sanitized for a monster movie and rated PG-13. It uses plenty of horror tropes like dangerous strangers, violating a restricted area, and showing the killer’s point of view. It takes this last one to a whole new level when we are place inside the snake itself, witnessing a body move toward us as it is being swallowed. However, there is little gore and a complete lack of sex and gratuitous nudity—the characters even get in the water fully clothed, which, frankly, seems impractical. Gary does flirt with Denise (“Is it just me or does the jungle make you really, really horny?”), and they do sneak off into the jungle.. but are interrupted by an angry boar (which is killed by Serone who just happens to be right there). There is also the serious romance between Lopez and Stoltz, which is so dull that we forget about it once he is incapacitated by a wasp in the throat and an amateur tracheotomy (Serone again, of course).
The best thing about Anaconda is definitely the ending. Serone’s corpse winks at Lopez, who is of course our Final Girl. But Ice Cube survives against-type and saves the day. Then they literally sail off into the goddamn sunset. Leaving us wondering not just how did this get made, but how did it get released?
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Anaconda is unintentionally so bad it’s good, kind of like the never-ending Transformers series—just because it is decisively bad has not stopped people from liking it. To enjoy Anaconda, you just have to submit to the silliness.
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A giant, and largely computer generated, snake picks off members of a jungle expedition in this tongue-in-cheek thriller.
Although much of the movie was shot in the jungle around Manaus in Brazil, you don’t have to travel quite so far to enjoy the Anaconda experience. Watch how the lush foliage gives way to, er, palm trees toward the film’s climax.
The later action sequences were filmed in California, in the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum, a 127-acre botanical garden which must be one of the most filmed locations in the world.
Its tropical foliage has been seen in Tarzan movies, Road to.. movies, TV’s Fantasy Island (the kitschy little Queen Anne cottage is here), classics such as George Cukor’s The Women and William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives, a couple of Alfred Hitchcock movies (Notorious and Under Capricorn), and literally hundreds of others, including 2011’s Bridesmaids. Visit the Arboretum at 301 North Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, east of Pasadena.
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Upgrade to PremiumTrailerA female anaconda and a male anaconda captured, are being held in a genetic research facility, Wexel Hall for experimentation. But when the financier, Murdoch, pushes the experiments too far, the snakes escape, hungry and heading for civilization.Actors: David Hasselhoff,Crystal Allen,Ryan McCluskey,Patrick Regis,Anthony Green,John Rhys-Davies,Alan OSilva,Toma Danila,Bogdan Uritescu,Mihaela Elena Oros,Serban Celea,..»Country: United StatesQuality: SDIMDb: 2.8Keywords:- Played by: David HasselhoffPlayed by: Crystal AllenPlayed by: Anthony GreenPlayed by: John Rhys-Davies
- Birthdate: 5 May 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA
..immediately establishes itself as the weakest entry within this ongoing series..