Supremely silly but undeniably fun.
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08/27/04
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
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Reviews Counted:115
Fresh:31
Rotten:84
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: A cheesy monster B-movie.
Theatrical Release:Aug 27, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $31,526,393
Synopsis: Some greedy scientists discover the "blood orchid" holds the secret to immortality, blooms once every seven years, and only grows deep in the jungles of giant python-infested Borneo. Quickly, an... [More]
Starring: Johnny Messner, Matthew Marsden, Morris Chestnut, Salli Richardson
Director: Dwight H. Little
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Reviews for Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
'There's a way in. There's a way out.' He's right. It's behind you, right below the sign that says Exit. Just follow the stampede.
08/27/04
Top CriticWisely prods not only ordinary phobias about big, bad serpents but also universal terrors of the dark, of narrow spaces, of drowning, of falling, of spiders and much more.
08/27/04
The sequel might have the formula down, but it lacks everything that made Anaconda fun.
08/27/04
Top Critic...mainly a series of false alarms involving a pet monkey.
08/27/04
After watching this film you feel that you've aged a thousand years.
08/27/04
It's not particularly ingenuous, the acting is only serviceable, the killer snakes have adapted most of their scariest riffs from the star of Jaws, but it's a species of low-grade fun that really does appeal to the whole family.
08/27/04
Coiled in cliché it may be, but the film offers a reasonably good time for audiences, and it boasts a few cast members with promise, both human and primate.
08/27/04
Top CriticThe supersize snakes don't even make an appearance until the movie's midway point -- and when they do, appalling special effects render them merely risible.
08/27/04
Anaconda is the Citizen Kane of giant snake movies. Anacondas is more like the Gigli of giant snake movies, only slightly better because at least Ben Affleck's not in it.
08/27/04
The refined taste insists on risibly bad, on hysterically bad, on poke-your-seatmate- in-the-ribs bad, and this falls well short of that hallowed mark -- it's just routinely bad.
08/27/04
Precisely what you think it is: a workmanlike sequel to a thrill-kill flick that doesn't even pretend to be good.
08/27/04
Director Dwight Little and a laundry list of writers (among them Michigan-born Jim Cash) simply deliver a generic hungry snake movie, and on those terms, Anacondas can be kind of fun.
08/27/04
It's hard to fully embrace a film when its best actor is an animal (in this case, a Capuchin monkey that's far more expressive than any of this movie's no-name cast members).
08/27/04
A lot better than a slapped-together sequel to a campy original has any right to be.
08/27/04
A scary, fun, fast and efficient B-movie that crushes such bloated would-be blockbusters as 'Van Helsing' and 'AVP' in its CGI coils.
08/27/04
I've seen Anaconda, and, senator, Anacondas is no Anaconda.
08/27/04
Top CriticIt's a bit more conscious of the fact that it's a bad B-movie, so it goes along with it, which makes for a lot of fun and a noisy audience laughing both with and at the filmmaker's liberal use of genre clichés.
08/27/04
Where the first movie had a fragrant odor, the smell, say, of Lysol sprayed in a gas station bathroom, Anacondas actually stinks.
08/27/04
Top CriticYet another film bashing corporations, Anacondas does a reasonably good job with chills and humor from material that's same ol'.
08/27/04
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