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OK guys ...if you have not seen this movie that came out today...DO NOT. If you are thinking of going anyway knowing it is bad and you just want to see some corny anacondas and want to see what its all about...DO NOT. If you want a movie with a similar plot to the first movie only instead of looking for anacondas they are looking for a flower then you are close. If you don't want to see as many shots of oversized anacondas then good, this movie has way less to do with anacondas. If you want the anacondas to be way way way bigger and the heads to look way unlike an anacondas and way more like a dinosaur...GO SEE THIS MOVIE. If you want some goofy facts about anacondas being very territorial and hunt for pleasure...this is the movie for you. I could not wait to find out why they were in Borneo and when I sat down I was thinking of possible ways they would come up with. But when the first scene involved a guy hunting/being hunted by a tiger making a lot of noise before they both got eaten by an anaconda and scared some scarlet and hyacinth parrots out of the trees , I knew this was not a clever movie..just one with complete disreguard for geography and natural habitats of animals. There was one shot that looked like an anaconda in a tree and following a monkey and a few of those underwater shots that looked pretty cool. But we have all seen anacondas in the water and at least we see the entire body of the snake. Please spend money on a new humidity guage or soemthing or a few rats. This movie is not even worth checking out. It had almost nothing to do with snakes and it seemed the only reason they were there was because they ran out of ideas for things to go wrong so they figured since the other anaconda movie was so great..they would steal their title and put a few snake attacks in the movie. But they did take full advangtage of that fake shot on the net of the reticulated python that was cut open with the guy inside (that was claimed to be an anaconda). They had an almost perfect duplicate scene of that photo and they actually made the snake look like a big anaconda. nice work people who took that fake shot and selling an idea. Good thing the second time arounders made sure they had the right snake...just in the wrong continent. Sorry for the long post. This was my overview of the movie. Oh..and hate to spoil the end but all the anacondas (in their mating ball...the only part somewhat correct in the movie) were all buried in a mud slide so now poor Renee has to go dig them out and save them because people have an irrational fear of snakes. by the way..when they mention this mating ball..they forget to mention the males will not be thinking about hunting every human in the area while they are concetrated on tracking the female. oh..is a mating ball just a bunch of snakes swimming around in a poopl of water? I thought they wrapped around each other and made something that looked like a ball? I was way off.

Well, I agree and disagree. The movie was good...but it wasn't very factual. Anyone who knows anything about herps is going to have a hard time viewing it as a movie and not a documentary. I think I was the only person in the theatre who knew that the anacondas were going to jump out and get someone (ooo, big surprise). If you are wanting to see the movie for sheer pleasure, I'd say go see it. It's actually quite a good movie, great effects and some comedy (which was much appreciated to dull the pain of the bad factuality).

Sami
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I think I am going to have to agree with Eunectes4 on this one... I saw the movie yesterday, and well I wasn't really expecting a whole lot from it. Eunectes4 was also right on there wasn't very good Anaconda shots either there was one really good shot when it was following a monkey through a tree, because the scales and patterns were like perfect, and a few under water shots that were pretty cool, but what just cancelled out the entire movie for me were their heads. I mean if/when you guys see this movie you will know what I mean, but it almost seems the person creating the anaconda never actually saw one. It's obvious that they wanted it to look more "dinosaur" like, but I mean, how many un-morphed Green Anacondas do you see with a white head and black lines going up and down it? They could have just made the teeth bigger with the actual looking head (which they did over exaggerate the teeth by far). But this is also just a review, I mean I liked this one more than the first Anaconda, because at least this one had a more detailed story behind it. So if you want to go for a story and a couple good anaconda shots, I say go for it! Oh yeah, and there was just one other thing that got me about it. An Anaconda grabbed this guy, coiled around him and pinned him to a tree for like 5 minutes. Someone threw a knife at it and stabbed it, and the anaconda just let go of the person. But that wasn't really what got me, it was the fact that the guy only got the air knocked out of him, no broken bones, no eye buldging out, but just absolutly fine, he was walking around perfectly for the rest of the movie. Now personally from seeing my green eat, if it was taking on a live rat, I don't think the rat would be walking around after she was with my girl for 5 minutes. But this is still just all a review!

~Ben