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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Salesrank: 13490
Released: January 20, 1998 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In the search for a lost civilization they stumble onto a discovery that will literally take your breath away.System Requirements:Starring: Jennifer Lopez Ice Cube Jon Voight Eric Stoltz Jonathan Hyde Owen Wilson Copyright: 1997 Columbia Running Time: 90 minutes; Closed Captioned. Menus English 2-Channel and 5.1 Dolby Digital Additional Languages: Spanish French Subtitles: English Spanish and French Scene Selections Widescreen and Full Screen Formats Side A: Widescreen version preserves the original 2.35:1 theatrical aspect ratio. Side B: Full screen version is re-formatted to fit your TV.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396817593
Description of Anaconda:
This giant-man-eating-snake-in-the-jungle thriller definitely scores points as a guilty pleasure, especially with Jon Voight hamming it up as the monster-poacher. He makes life miserable for a team of documentary filmmakers on the Amazon river. Anaconda is one of those movies that exists for no other reason than to give computer animators a chance to strut their stuff with a new digital beastie, and they don't disappoint. It's a lot of fun to watch the mega-snake scarf down its victims and--in the case of Voight--regurgitate 'em right back up again, all covered in gooey digestive juices. You might wonder why Eric Stoltz, who plays Dr. Steven Cale, showed up for a role that requires him to be off-screen for most of the movie, but hey--when it comes to big snake movies, you might as well put your brain on hold and sit back for the slimy ride. --Jeff Shannon
Anaconda Reviews:
Anaconda 
2008-08-20 - Do you ever get in the mood to watch people eaten by large creatures? I have for years. Not in real life of course but I love the giant creature SciFi movies. This has a decent cast with Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, Ice Cube, Jonathan Hyde, and Jon Voight. It is reasonably good and worth at least a rental. The story is a documentary crew looking for a lost tribe in South America heading up river meet up with a man that captures snakes. It is trouble of the worst kind for them as he heads them into dangerous waters where giant Anacondas live. From then on one by one the crew is killed off and he takes over the barge.
Voight obviously had fun with this role. He uses an odd accent and claims to be from Ecuador when he tells the crew about how he captures snakes. He does a great bad guy in this movie showing no remorse when someone from the crew that buys into his scheme is made into snake lunch. The special effects aren't bad but there are a few segments where you have to go along with the stretch of it being realistic. Overall great camera work and excellent sets with atmosphere for the shooting. This is one of the reasons many people enjoy this one over a lot of the other B movies that have cheap sets. Good quality DVD with some replayability. If you enjoyed this catch "Lake Placid" and "Congo".
CA Luster
Chuckles Galore
2008-07-08 - Look, I'm more worried about a slithering snake coming up out of the john than a 40-foot anaconda devouring me (after breaking every bone in my bod), but if I want to be entertained by goofball campiness I'm going to watch ANACONDA. A group of tenderfeet "filmmakers," dominated by a scene-crunching poacher, floating down the Amazon while being terrorized by hissing CGI is a chuckle-fest deluxe. This flick is fun, and, after numerous viewings, continues to furnish ear-to-ear mirth: some of it intentional, some of it not.
The cast itself sends a searing message this is a movie tailor-made for nonsense. Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube (or is it Ice Tea? I can never keep it straight) as documentary filmmakers? Knee, meet slap. Lopez excels in wet t-shirt shots, while Ice Cube shows some cred doing some serious snake wrestling. The rest of the cast includes Owen Wilson, who was even annoying back before superstardom, and Eric Stolz, who, for the most part, is unconscious (and it's his best acting ever).
But this movie is cut off at its knees (well, snakes don't have knees, but you get my drift) by the crafty, venerable Jon Voight. Playing a diabolical, seasoned snake poacher, and sporting an accent not even Mother Teresa would bless, Voight hams it up supreme, and makes us love every minute of it. He's charming, eery, smarmy, and evil; he busts a groove better than Bill Clinton at an Arkansas hootenanny. He's a perpetual chuckle-producing dude, and he makes ANACONDA a titillating woot 'n hoot.
--D. Mikels, Author Walk-On
Not a bad movie
2008-05-18 - This movie its quite good in my opinion. Even though the critics gave it mostly bad reviews and the snakes look fake at times this movie has some solid acting and good action sequences. The story (if there's any in this type of films) ain't that bad, especially for a movie of that genre. Although many people may not like this movie, this movie did started another branch in the genre of animal flicks (python, boa, python 2, boa vs. python, etc.). Recommend this and its sequel as well. (Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid).
Dey's Snakes out there `dis big?! 
2008-05-16 - At its core, Anaconda is just another cheesy, giant snake flick. It did, however, manage to wrangle in an impressive cast of the following people: Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, Jon Voight, Ice Cube, Kari Wuhrer, and Jonathan Hyde. How in the heck they all got roped into this movie is beyond me, but I can only assume the casting director is presently selling the Moon's real estate to Hollywood yuppies.
Anway, a film crew in Brazil is searching for a reclusive, indigenous tribe known as the People of the Mist. While they are floating down the river, they happen to run into a man on a stranded ship. This man, Paul Sarone (Jon Voight), is a big game snake hunter with the skill for capturing anacondas, the ponytail of a squalid biker, and the ability to butcher whatever accent he's attempting. He tells the crew, led by Dr. Steven Cale (Stoltz) and his girlfriend Terri Flores (Lopez), that he knows where the POTM are, but his offer to be a guide is laced with the ulterior motive to hunt down the biggest anaconda known to man. He plans to capture it, and sell it to a zoo for a fortune.
Within no time, Eric Stoltz is bed-ridden after the worst tracheotomy in history, JLo is running around in wet clothes, Owen Wilson has a broken nose, Kari Wuhrer is serving her purpose in the movie by showing skin, and Ice Cube utters one of my favorite lines in movie history: "Dey's snakes out there `dis big?!" Evidently, "Yes. Dey is."
The plot, characters, and storyline are all relatively inconsequential. It's just a fun movie to watch, as the cast fights until the end to save their lives from the insatiable - and apparently 50-foot long - anaconda that not only eats its prey, but also seems to recognize old foes, and enjoys playing with them.
Great movie.
Jon Voight is scarier than the snake!
2007-12-20 - This is the essence of a great popcorn movie. Lots of fun, and things jumping out and scaring the characters, and the audience. The weakest part of the film is the Anaconda, which looks very computer-generated (because it is, of course!). The director wisely keeps the snake shots to a minimum, and the result is a creepier picture.
