StuOz Sexy Jennifer Lopez, evil Jon Voight and Mr Cool Owen Wilson are on a boat attacked by a giant snake.As an another reviewer noted, this flick has sort of a retro Creature From The Black Lagoon-feel to it which draws me in. Also, a touch of a disaster movie as we have a mixed bunch of people stuck in a confined space (a small boat).The music score, which nicely plays under the dialogue, is very effective.The now dated CGI does a bit of damage to the flick as a whole, but with a cast like Lopez/Voight/Wilson...we have other things to focus on.

MisterWhiplash At one time Werner Herzog tried to bring opera/commerce to the jungles of the Amazon with his film Fitzcarraldo, which featured as its primary set piece a boat being dragged over a mountain side. Gone are those days; indeed fifteen years after that in 1997 audiences got just a quick scene of opera being blared in the jungle - this comes after Ice Cube's "hippity hop" has played, which actually isn't that bad - while Jon Voight hijacks a small boat of documentary filmmakers (through stealth) to hunt after giant snakes. So it goes.Anaconda was a movie I watched many times when it was on HBO. I probably recognized then it was trash, but it was highly watchable trash, with convincing performances (for what they're asked to do) and some high-grade cheesy lines and mannerisms. Seeing it again today, it holds up as a B-movie blow-out, and is dated mostly by its bad CGI of snakes and has one too many climaxes for comfort. It's one thing when Fatal Attraction does it, but this...It's highly mockable (i.e. Rifftrax took it on live this year), but perhaps the filmmakers knew it? The actors don't seem to, certainly not hapless Owen Wilson - or maybe Voight does, and in his way it's one of the few times, albeit in a total cartoonish performance where he has practically the same grimacing facial expression with Paraguaian accent from start to finish - and maybe that helps elevate it. It's still watchable... which is about the best to say about it, with some competent direction helping along the way - along with some befuddling choices like a Snake-POV camera.Maybe it's best today as a party movie: turn it on, have some brews, and laugh at how that snake just seems to keep coming back and back again (and if it's more than one giant snake, why is it such a big deal?) Oh well... sequels came of this as well.

LeonLouisRicci Those who have Rated this a Bad Movie, and there are Legions, forgot how to have Fun at the Movies. There are Thrills and Chills in this Big-Budget B-Movie with Enough Self Deprecating Humor and Laughs at the Critics that have Laughed at this Elaborate Excursion along the Snake Like Amazon River. The Atmosphere of the Jungle Cruise is Filmed with a Colorful and Steamy Palette a Plenty. The Boat is Populated with all sorts of Characters, a Slice of Humanity that is Clichéd and Categorized as a Documentary Crew on the Hunt for Their Big Break.It's a Quirky Bunch, all Acted Appropriately within the Confines of the Corny Script. Jon Voight gets the Most Attention, as should be, because He is Him without a Soul. A "Failed" Seminary Student that was Seduced by the Most Symbolic of Satan and has Determined to Kill His Demon.Voight has a Good Time Overacting and with a Wink Delivers one of the Better Villains to "Grace" this Type of Cinematic Trash in a Long Time. He Literally Out Slimes the Anaconda. Nothing here is to be Taken Seriously and Snake Aficionados have Ranted All About its Scientific Inaccuracies. Really. This is a Monster Movie and Factual Representations are Thrown Overboard from the First Frame. Who Cares about the Silliness? It's All In for the Sake of Snake Entertainment.Underrated in the Extreme this is a Fantastic Fantasy Film that Delivers the Goods. Almost Everyone is Killed in the Most Horrific of Ways and even if They Survive it is Not Without an Experience of Exploitation that the Movie puts Them through. Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, Jonathan Hyde, and Ice Cube are along for the Ride of a Lifetime. See who Survives. Note...Forget the charmless Sequels.

videorama-759-859391 Anaconda comes off better than just an action horror film. Yes it's a horror, pick one by one off victim affair, but it actually comes off better than others of it's type. It's very suspenseful, and doesn't go straight into the kill. No we're left in great suspense, where at the start, a suicide of a familiar ugly Mexican dude holds us over, prefore to the movie's story. A doco crew led by Stoltz, again miscast, are out to catch the largest Anaconda, and film it. Good luck with that, as they never anticipated the monstrosity of the one, lurking around the rivers of the Amazon. Owen Wilson, before becoming known, plays a serious role here too, and Jon Voight shows great menace as a rich snake hunter/cold blooded psychopath, in one shocking breakneck scene, ending one of the crew while J Lo as Stoltz's girlfriend, turns up the sexy heat. Watching this reptile go nuts is half the fun of the film, to see something this big is truly eye popping, Voight while being suffocated by it, actually winks before he expires. Yes it is a bit far fetched, but you go into these movies to be scared a thrilled, and the films succeeds in both, as to that awful Snakes On A Plane. Truly a worthwhile view if not having seen this original, which in almost nearly every case, you can't beat.