Rent Anaconda (1997)

Great Fun - Creature Feature - Anaconda review by GI

Everyone has those silly guilty secret films that they love. This is one of mine, a film once voted as a bad film everyone loves. It's actually fantastic fun, gloriously entertaining and makes you think back to those films you saw as child and made you fall in love with films. This one is actually quite well made, has a top cast and it's use of CGI and animatronics is rather well done. It has all the clichés of the 'creature feature' but that's what makes it so great, the characters obviously there to be eaten, the bad guy willing to sacrifice everyone else and the heroes who save the day. Films about manhunting animals are nothing new from sharks to crocodiles and everything in between. In this story a National Geographic film crew head up the Amazon to find a lost tribe. On the way they help an apparently stranded man who turns out to be a snake hunter searching for a legendary giant anaconda and he's prepared to use the film crew as bait. Jennifer Lopez heads the cast alongside Ice Cube, Eric Stolz (very underused here - he stays in bed most of the film) and Owen Wilson as the film crew and Jon Voight as the nasty baddie. There's plenty of shocks and gore thrown in and a climactic battle with the snake. A film to just sit back and laugh, jump and enjoy, nothing to think about but having a good time.