Anaconda (1997)
director: luis losa
cast: jennifer lopez, ice cube, jon voight, eric stoltz, jonathan hyde, owen wilson, kari wuhrer, vincent castellanos, danny trejo
Unintentionally
hilarious "Jaws/Moby Dick" rip-off. After a documentary film director,
Eric Stoltz, is sidelined by a snakebite, trouser-snake charmer Jennifer Lopez
leads her film crew on an epic battle against a captain Ahab-like John Voight
plus a crappy CGI anaconda. A mumbling and puffy Voight comes across like Brando
as he kills anyone who gets between him and his snake (snicker, snicker). The
film crew, which includes Ice Cube, is not believable. This group of pantywaists
couldn't survive Central Park forget about the Amazon rain forests. The low-ball
computer graphic snake looks like it was painted into the various scenes and
its size and scale is not consistent from one shot to the next, never mind scene
to scene. Over-the-top and completely goofy. Worth every penny of a video rental
so you can do your own home version of "Mystery Science 3000". --
Tom Graney
$5.00
© 1997 Hollywood Outsider™