Product Description

A high-voltage thriller with enough spine-snapping suspense to literally take your breath away. The 1 box office hit follows a young film crew as they are hijacked by a hunter obsessed with a mythic man-eating snake. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/15/2005 Starring: Jennifer Lopez Eric Stoltz Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Luis Llosa

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20010 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 1998-01-20
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 89 minutes

Amazon.com
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

From The New Yorker
Luis Liosa's large-deadly-animal movie, set in the Amazon, doesn't bother much with exposition or characterization-it's almost comically impatient to get to the gruesome stuff-and the whole thing is over in an economical ninety minutes. Although it's refreshing to see an action movie that doesn't pretend to be something it isn't, this frankness has a downside, because what the picture so unapologetically is isn't, in fact, much. With Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, and Ice Cube. -Terrence Rafferty
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

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Original Beautiful Cover vs New Ugly Cover
Mom and I were very disappointed with Amazon.com upon receiving this DVD. This page is deceptive: It shows the original cover of the movie (which we already had on VHS). We wanted to have this movie on DVD and looked everywhere we could think of to try to find an edition of the DVD with the original cover and not the cover showing the people. When I saw this page I thought this was it. Alas, we received the movie yesterday and when we opened the box it was the new cover with the actors on it instead of the beautiful snake. In my opinion that was deceptive advertising. Other than all that we have always loved this movie.

Anaconda
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".

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