Anaconda Review: A Horror of a Comedy

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IsAnaconda the first Hollywood movie to include an on-camera discussion of IP? The heroes of this meta-reboot of the campy ’90s horror movie are wannabe filmmakers who acquire the remake rights toAnacondabecause, as one character puts it,“that’s all big movies are” now.

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The moment is meant as a meta-joke, of course. We’re only watching this new Jack Black and Paul Ruddbuddy moviebecause someone in Hollywood thought theAnaconda IP was strong enough topullviewers intotheaters to watch it. Butthat line plays more like tragedy than comedy, since it’s a tacit acknowledgement that basically the only way Hollywood will make a comedy these days (oranygenre, for that matter) is by awkwardly shoehorning some IP into it.

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It’s not enough to make a movie about funny people with recognizabledesires and relatable problems anymore.You’ve got to find a wayfor those people to solve those problems by fighting a giant CGI snake while making desperate quips about how the snake is actually a metaphor for something.

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Those snake-fighting scenes are all the more disappointing because Anaconda’searlier ones before the jungle antics (and IP exploitation) are pretty promising. They introduce a cast of friends from Buffalo led by Doug (Black), whogrew up wanting tobecome a major movie director buteventually settled for a humble life as a husband, father, and wedding videographer who injects all sorts ofinappropriate movie references into his work over the objections of his clients. Doug’s boss tries toconvince him to accept his fate by insisting “This is a B, maybe even a B+ life!”

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If onlyAnacondawere a B, maybe even a B+ movie. Unfortunately, Doug’s childhood bestie, a struggling Hollywood actor named Griff (Rudd), returns home for Doug’s surprise birthday party with a present: The recently acquired rights to the underlying Japanese novel that inspired 1997’sAnaconda, which starred Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube as the members of a film crew who travel to the Amazon to make a documentary about anindigenous tribe and instead wind uptargeted by the local wildlife.

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Griff believes that with theAnacondarights andless than $50,000 they and their two other childhood buddies — drug-addled Kenny (Steve Zahn) and recently divorced Claire (Thandiwe Newton) — canfinally make their cinematic dreams come true. The quartet heads to Brazil where they hook up with an eccentric snake wrangler (I’m Still Here’s Selton Mello) — and accidentally get mixed up with a beautiful young woman (The Suicide Squad’s Daniela Melchior) on the run from some tough dudes who want control of a gold mine.

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Why, if the entire budget of your filmis less than $50,000 and your cast and crew consists entirely offive people, you would go all the way fromUpstate New York to the Amazon to shoot yourAnaconda remake is never explained. But pretty much nothingin the film from the momentBlack, Rudd, and company touch down in Brazil makes any sense. The audience is simply expected to go along with the ludicrous series of events that follows, which does indeed include the crew encountering an actualoversized snake. (ApparentlyAnaconda was more accurate than any of us ever realized.)

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The notion of a bunch of losers coping with an intense midlife crisis through moviemaking is an absolutely valid one for a comeddy. Unfortunately, it would require a script that spends more than just its first couple of minutes considering its characters as human beings. Once Griff, Doug, and theircolleagues get to South America,all of the weightier ideas take a backseat for a series of toothlessmoviemaking spoofs.

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In a world where the lacerating corporate filmmaking satireThe Studio alreadyexists,broad jokes aboutwacky animal trainers and ego-driven actors trying to influence their projects to benefit their own roles just won’t cut it. (Anacondawas co-written and directed byTom Gormican, whose previous movie,The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, was anotherwinkingcinematic caricaturewith a great premise and an underwhelming execution.)

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All four leads are very game to look very silly, and I applaud them for that. I can hardly blame them for signing on to this project, asawkwardly constructed as it may be. There are so few big-screen comedies of any kinds made these days, that you take the work wherever you can get it.

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Anaconda’s early scenes, set in Buffalo and seemingly shot there,look appropriately shabby; theinteriors are cluttered and drab, and filled with overexposed daylight pouring in fromunshaded windows. For a couple of minutes, Rudd and Black’s characters get to act like authenticfriends who’ve lost touch and reconnected over their mutual love of movies, over this art form’s power to tell stories that unite people in the dark through their shared connection and humanity.

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Then they go andrunfrom a CGI snake foran hour. One sad I thought had watchingAnaconda: If this is theonlystuff modern Hollywood makes now, would these aspiring auteurs even want to work there anymore?

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RATING: 4/10

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Let’s give some love to the 2025 films that deserved more attention.

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Admittedly, there is surprisingly little ballet in this film titled Ballerina. On the other hand, when a film contains as many flamethrower fights as this one, dancing en pointe may be besides the, uh, point. Despite years of whispers about massive reshoots (and a storyline that does feel a little cobbled together in the editing room) this John Wick spinoff delivered so many stellar action sequences (see: the most literal firefight in film history) it could not be denied. Plus, the kooky European ski village where much of the film’s third act takes place gives off major Gymkata vibes (complimentary).

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