Lame snake: Paul Rudd and Jack Black somehow fail to bring laughs to ‘Anaconda’
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Lame snake: Paul Rudd and Jack Black somehow fail to bring laughs to ‘Anaconda’
Going into Anaconda, I thought some creative folks were up to something that could be a lot of fun. First off, I thought Jack Black and Paul Rudd might be playing themselves as they try to reboot Anaconda, a decent ’90s cult horror flick that featured Jennifer Lopez and, most hysterically, Jon Voight, getting puked up by a very large snake. With Tom Gormican—the man who directed Nicolas Cage as himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent—…
The caste of the Meta-Darons The concept of this 2025 cru is based on a pitch that holds on a post-it. Doug (Jack Black) and Griff (Paul Rudd), two buddies in the midst of a quarantine crisis, set out to make their own remake of Anaconda with a budget of misery in the middle of the Amazon jungle. But no bowl, a real [...]
Anaconda (2025) Review – 'A regurgitated mess'
Remaking Anaconda as a comedy about remaking Anaconda is an idea so brilliantly terrible, or terribly brilliant, it might have crossed the mind of The Studio’s increasingly desperate Matt Remick. And in another version of the movie multiverse it could — maybe — have worked. Director Tom Gormican and co-writer Kevin Etten made 2022’s exuberantly meta The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, so they must have seemed like a smart choice, and old ha…
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