Anaconda

 When I saw the trailer of this "reboot parody" of Anaconda, with Jack Black fleeing from a snake with a living boar strapped to it's back, I just wanted to watch this movie!

 

So when it hit Netflix earlier this month, me an Noshi sat down for hopefully some laughs.

 

Now, the original was an okay action horror starring J-Lo and Ice Cube, and this is like the 7th movie in the franchise (meaning I didn't saw the five between the original and this one...), and serves as a reboot that is not a reboot.

 

A bunch of friends are not happy by the way their life has gone, and decide to chase their childhood dream of making a feature film, a reboot of Anaconda.  One of them claims (Paul Rudd) that he aquired the rights to the franchise, so they set out to the amazon rainforest to make a new entry in the franchise.  Which soon starts to go down as their snake is killed during filming, and while searching for a new one things go bad, as the beast is huge!  Add to that a beautiful illegal gold smuggler, government agents chasing her and by extension them, and you have the recipy for some fun hours of laughs and action.

 

Except the movie doesn't deliver at all.  The scene from the trailer is about the only one in the whole movie that I could laugh with, for the rest not even a giggle.  Surely, the cameo's of Ice Cube and in a lesser extent J-Lo are fun additions, but basically the only funny thing for the rest was the end title screen and what happened to the characters, so that is saying something.

 

It does have some nice action sequences, zero horror scenes and near nothing is funny, so it is right to say that this movie failed to deliver on a lot of it's promises, and to be honest, even Jack Black fails big time in this thing.

 

Just avoid it, and let the very first original movie be the only one you might vaguely remember from this franchise...