Anaconda - Movie Review

[@jeremiahalonzo]

I love this movie, I don't care what anyone says. Perfect combo of camp and 90s effects

[@anubusx]

I cannot believe there is a new one coming out.

[@tumsfestival8027]

Also the cast is just amazing

[@MayronWoW]

Same, I watched this a lot growing up. It was silly but fun. The CGI aged terribly, unfortunately...

[@OGMillyMillz_]

Chris grew up with Anacondas 🐍

[@vdiitd]

What is "camp"?

[@finsternis1986]

Ice Cube calling the snake a "bitch" when he kills it is just... *chef's kiss*

[@SuperCosty2010]

A Bitch Iz a Bitch, what can I say 🤣

[@scottybabb6223]

Apparently ice cube said he didn't even want to be in this movie so they just cast him as a guy who didn't want to be on the mission pretty genius casting right there not going to lie

[@finsternis1986]

@@scottybabb6223 Oh yeah...I do remember hearing that, actually! That's freaking hilarious.

[@JakeQRook]

I don’t remember much about this movie… BUT I SURE AS HELL REMEMBER THAT!

[@SpoopySquid]

You left out the best moment. At one point, there's a shot of the boat sailing past a waterfall. Later, the boat sails past that same waterfall in the opposite direction, but they clearly didn't have the time/money to do a second shoot, so they just played that first shot in reverse and you can see the waterfall flowing upwards. This movie is so much fun

[@Omar-ok7gd]

I knew I'm not the only one noticed that reverse waterfall shot

[@FreddyD177]

LMFAO I GOTTA WATCH THIS MOVIE AGAIN 🤣 I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid so I wonder how much I'd be laughing rewatching this 😂

[@blackguyofthesouth2161]

I'll never forget seeing this in the theatre at 8 years old and....6:24 when the snake spit out Jon Voight and he winked. The whole theater bursted with laughter 😂

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

I saw it in the theater as well & everyone there was having a great time🤣

[@genius179]

Anaconda was heavy in TNT and HBO rotation for a good 6-7 years.

[@herbiemelo6792]

Facts!! Also telemundo classic lol

[@mp4455]

Facts !!!😂😂😂😂

[@MrSurfer432]

Don’t forget the OG sci-fi channel. Before it changed the spelling (syfy) and went to shit lol

[@snake-oz8nu]

It still is on a lot

[@SuperUnknownballer]

This comment takes me back haha

[@tyrantgregcagkaiju71]

I never quite understood the hate for this cult-classic. At least Roger Ebert, or all people, recognized it for what it was: A fun B-grade monster flick with lots of entertaining action and a ton of good suspense. By the way, not even a mention of the legendary Frank Welker providing those unforgettable vocals for the snake? Come on, man!

[@dnasty312]

Excellent score too by the underrated Randy Edelman 🎼

[@tyrantgregcagkaiju71]

@@dnasty312 Oh, absolutely! The guy’s a freaking legend! His score for Dragonheart happens to be my favorite movie soundtrack.

[@tbirdUCW6ReAJ]

I like the score and the cinematography I’ve always admired (done by Jaws DP Bill Butler)

[@TheBraunMachine2K24]

Agreed, I always enjoyed this movie & the score, it had some good memorable kills too. I remember really liking Cube, Stoltz, J.Lo, Owen Wilson & Jonathan Hyde's characters & not wanting them to get killed off. I had such a crush on Kari Wuhrer & J.Lo in this movie. Still watch this one every once and a while, same with Deep Blue Sea & Lake Placid. The sequel Anacondas was okay, IMHO, I liked that one too, not as much fun as this one but I liked it fine.

[@fiilmfankev]

One of my favorite creature features. I usually double feature it with Lake Placid. Love both of those movies.

[@anubusx]

Same here. The late 90's and early 2000's were full of creature features.

[@fiilmfankev]

@@anubusx I have a soft spot for creature features. These two along with Deep Blue Sea, Eight Legged Freaks, The Relic, Mimic.

[@anubusx]

@@fiilmfankev I the original Piranha.

[@hulkfan97]

​@@fiilmfankev Me too these and disaster movies

[@OGMillyMillz_]

Chris grew up with Anacondas 🐍

[@massaccelorator]

This is the closest thing we've gotten to a Hilariosity in a LONG time. Please bring back this format!

[@Chaseraubeboyer]

Underrated & unfairly maligned. Anaconda is everything a good creature feature should be!

[@mufradhossain9238]

Not underrated. Just see the whole cast lol

[@awdproductions7]

Second is heavily underrated

[@Chaseraubeboyer]

@awdproductions7 I agree! I really enjoy Hunt For the Blood Orchid!

[@christofferjenzen78]

@@mufradhossain9238 The cast has very little to do with if a movie is underrated or not. The movie is pretty trashed by both audiences and critics and OP thinks it´s unfair,that´s all. And honestly,no one of them were a big star yet in 1997,not even Oscar winner Jon Voight who had been MIA for ages.

[@thetalentof]

Another reason it also looks better than recent movies like Jungle Cruise is because it's actually shot in the jungle and you can 100% tell the difference. And yeah, there's also the amazing animatronic they used for a lot of the scenes like you mentioned as well as the expensive, cinematic 35mm quality to give it that classic, timeless look.

[@irishspagetti6565]

You gotta remember this was a few years after Jurassic Park and animatronics were huge, that's why alot of the creature features of the 90s hold up pretty well, there wasnt a big reliance on CGI

[@kylerfisher5254]

Owen’s Wilson being in the snake’s body when it was swimming always struck me as a kid…

[@lonellfletcher]

Anaconda is one the best B movies for me. It's just fun, scary when it needs to be. The cast comes through like gangbusters. It IS a classic.

[@JamminOnThe1]

Back when Jennifer Lopez was not Jenny from the block yet. She’s really pretty and down to earth in this one. It’s nice to see her as a, dare I say, normal person.

[@kitano0]

She's had a heck of a film career. Say what you will about her talent, she has longevity! She's a pretty good actress, I think. She definitely was great in "Out of Sight" with Clooney.

[@16driver16]

AKA before she dated DIDDY!!!

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

@@kitano0Yep, Anaconda, Money Train & Out of Sight were all fun movies. I think Out of Sight has been overlooked. It’s a pretty darn good film.

[@handyzee]

You could believe that Jennifer Lopez was in danger, because that Anaconda don't want none, unless you got buns, hun.

[@tq4142]

You just are I to all the fake news on social media. Hustlers was great

[@leeloo1967]

Chris I actually saw Anaconda at the cinema back in ‘97 with my best friend and we were scared shitless and we loved every second of it. It’s still one of my favorite horror movies. Awesome spot on review Chris!

[@wakkyfodder]

This movie is an entire nation's guilty pleasure 🇿🇦

[@zee3871]

I was looking for this comment 😂

[@Lance_Gilbert]

Etv Blockbuster Sunday movie for a solid 20 years 🤣

[@MaxMilly_85]

"they got snakes out their this big???"

[@finsternis1986]

I love the way he says that line lol.

[@dnasty312]

"This skin is three or four years old."

[@mp4455]

Love that line

[@KidaMilo89]

"Yo mama's."

[@Datakrashcollective]

It’s really not that bad considering… everything.

[@robertlilly1751]

I remember the groaning with the whole theater when anaconda caught the guy falling out of the waterfall and my whole row of friends immediately busting up laughing because it was a whole community of disgust at a bad kill

[@nickwohrer1283]

7 year old me thought this movie was real

[@genius179]

@@nickwohrer1283 Yeah me too I saw it first I want to say when was 9 or 10. I thought anacondas looked like that. Chris didn’t mention it much, if at all, but Voight’s accent gets funnier every time I watch it

[@TheMovieslingers]

Anaconda, Deep Blue Sea and Deep Rising were my monster movies growing up

[@WarlordRising]

Deep Rising is 10 times better than James Cameron's Titanic as a people trapped on a boat movie. No one should at me. Deep Blue Sea is good, but Treat Williams in Deep Rising is on another level. The most charismatic lead of a creature feature of all time (outside of the Predator cast).

[@arilumani6194]

Same

[@thewrestlingoldhead]

My favorite lines in the whole movie are from Ice Cube. "MATEO! QUIT PLAYIN!" "They got snakes this big out here?!?"

[@dnasty312]

"I see you made this a pleasure cruise."

[@thewrestlingoldhead]

@dnasty312 "Come on you know me, I dont mix business with pleasure." 😆

[@alexcoyg3281]

Jon Voight accent and acting is oscar material❤

[@olucasb93]

Anaconda 1 & 2 are very fun. The sequels took out the water element and it just doesn't work the same. Fun story: I watched the first one in elementary school because one of the students taped it the night before and brought the VHS to school. Kids that had finished the lesson could hang out in the TV Room (teacher still in class and had no idea). That's how I watched Anaconda as a 6 year old. It gives me chills to this day. 😂

[@tyrantgregcagkaiju71]

Lol That’s one seriously crazy story 😂. How did the teacher react to it?

[@olucasb93]

@@tyrantgregcagkaiju71 She stayed in class with the other students so she never knew. We were learning how to read at this age and kids that could read already were sent to the TV room not to disturb the kids who couldn't yet, it was a bit far from the classroom and it had a lot of kids movies there and initially we were watching one but this kid brought the VHS tape with him and switched to Anaconda. His brother taped the night before and he wouldn't shut up about it so he showed it to us. Unsupervised kids watching TV, what could possibly go wrong, right? 🤣

[@TheLongestTake]

CLASSIC I was at a corporate sustainability summit and one of the global leaders (based out of canada, I think) was telling our group about their trip to the Amazon. She said "Do you know the movie Anaconda? It was filmed there." - the location where they stayed was the actual spot where they filmed this movie. I was like WHAT NO WAY. Loved it as a kid and will always appreciate it for its nostalgia.

[@ShooterWDT]

Chris…. PLEASE review The Relic. I see that VHS you have of it down there and have been wanting to hear you talk about that movie for so long

[@ProjectPaladin]

There is nothing better than an otherwise known as serious actor hamming it up to eleven. Jon Voight, Jeremy Irons, Frank Langella, Ian McDiarmid, Allen Rickman, and the list goes on. They know what movie they're in, and I love these movies for that.

[@fromthehaven94]

This reminds me of Eddie Redmayne in Jupiter Ascending: "I CREATE LIFE!"

[@kitano0]

I really liked Voight before he became a right wing nut.

[@christofferjenzen78]

@@kitano0 Learn how to seperate an art from an artist. He´s not a pedophle or a murderer,he´s right-wing. To like or dislike an actor cause of their politics,so much that it takes away enjoyment from watching their work isn´t really healthy either. He´s been right wing for a good while so would be unsure of when you might´ve liked him. I think he both has made some good points (Well,calling out his daughter recently would be the one) and spouted a lot of old man horseshit but I don´t look to him for guidance or input so I´m good.

[@kitano0]

@@christofferjenzen78 He was excellent in an old movie "Conrack" where he played a teacher. He was great in "Coming Home" with Jane Fonda, too. And I can separate an art from an artist, until they get too extreme, like being a MAGA.

[@christofferjenzen78]

@@kitano0It´s not a great reason to dislike an actor,at least if you love movies. Or personal reasons is one thing,to avoid movies with him another. To need reality to be reflected in works of fixtion and in a way you demand is just depriving yourself of great entertainment. Your bar is insanely low and being MAGA is pathetic but you can basically cut out 40% of all your actors then. Voight was just too loud which people get when they get too old. Okay sure,I´m still pissed off at Will Smith so I guess we do all have some triggers.

[@batcatpenguin3883]

“Bram Stoker’s Dracula” please ❤

[@Bexinnamon]

Oh yes!!!

[@jaynesfilm913]

Anaconda is a masterpiece and I won’t be told otherwise. I’ve watched 1,800 movies according to my letterbox’d (it’s probably more). And I’ve never seen a movie capture the Amazon Atmosphere quite like this movie. It’s perfectly captured in my mind. I love this movie.

[@rmarkley79]

Jon Voight's wink after getting hawk tuah'd... priceless!

[@BrandonWestfall]

Remove that stupidity from your vocabulary.

[@mp4455]

Yooooo 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jalyn947]

Finally! We’re acknowledging this absolute classic

[@allanm2064]

Chris is *REALLY* hitting the classics this year! Love the card man

[@Locadel2003]

Owen Wilson in the 90s was dying in every movie

[@KobatheASMRbiker]

And also getting his ass kicked by Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy

[@shawnfields2369]

​@@KobatheASMRbikerSo, he was either dying horribly in campy, but (fun 90's monsters movies, like "Anaconda", or getting his ass handed to him in bad comedy films, like "The Cable Guy", both of which are some of my favorite "so bad it's good" movies ever).

[@NeverSaySandwich1]

Decapitated in the Haunting

[@shawnfields2369]

@NeverSaySandwich1 Oh yeah, that's right! Almost forgot that one, thanks. To this day, I still don't understand how the ghosts decapitated Owen Wilson in that one. I wonder, was there some sort of death clause in Owen Wilson's contracts back then that just said he had to be killed in gruesome ways in every single bad/so bad it's good 90's movie or just in the campy 90's horror movies that he was in?

[@christofferjenzen78]

@@shawnfields2369 You qualify The cable guy as a movie to mock and laugh at solely for how inept and shitty it is? I think Stillers directing (I think they were...ASIAN!) is great in that one and crossed with Carreys bizarre performance,,you´re not really sure how to feel about it at first but now,I definitely embrace it,it´s a fine character study of a disturbed man and the role tv played in his life.

[@jp3813]

This is one of the few movies where the fullscreen aspect ratio is superior to the widescreen version... solely b/c of that single shot of Jennifer standing up from her desk and walking away from the camera.

[@sweetness371]

"Name a better movie where JLo, Ice Cube and Owen Wilson go up against a snake. You can't!" 💀

[@konstantinoskaragiannis1596]

"Anaconda"(1997) is a good enough Natural horror movie! This is a well made and underrated movie!

[@UKboom210]

Another classic 90s film that stayed on repeat in my house growing up

[@jakegarcia7382]

How do we not talk about the little baby bird line??

[@KidaMilo89]

I felt he rushed this one, there is too much in this movie to talk about

[@Indeeee]

I remember watching this movie back in hostel. Definitely a guilty pleasure.

[@majinsole8554]

He winked at her after being regurgitated. HE WINKED AT HER!!! 😆😂🤣😂🤣 ~_~

[@Atrus999]

I didn't even think to stop recording when the commercials came up! If only I could go back in time and give my younger self that little pearl of wisdom.

[@nope5657]

Chris is being a bit facetious here, but Anaconda IS beloved...by horror fans and movie nerds alike. A movie doesn't need critical approval to be liked and remembered. We're still talking about Anaconda almost 30 years later. Are we still talking the Best Picture winner of 1997? Nope! Anaconda was made during the last gasp of Hollywood filmmaking where a good budget, FROM A STUDIO, could be poured into a creature feature. Anaconda is a well made, star studded monster movie. And it kicks ass. We need to go back to this time. Every once in a while a decently budgeted film like this gets theatrically released - the banger that is Crawl, for example. The Shallows, a few others here and there. But this era is mostly long gone. We were eating good in the 90s and didn't know it. Anaconda, Deep Blue Sea, Lake Placid - the good old days.

[@Johncornwell103]

I think the last good studio approved creature film was the one about the real Nile crocodile Gustav.

[@andrewjlowe1031]

@@Johncornwell103 Primeval

[@dormiovibes]

Man I love that you include the trailers. So nostalgic

[@donbrunodelamancha1927]

OMG! I do miss the Hilariocity videos! Algorithm engagement!

[@MaxNeugebauer.]

This should have been a Hilariocity.

[@shawnfields2369]

​@@MaxNeugebauer.Yes, it definitely should've. And I also STILL miss the Hilariocity series. Just think about perfect this movie would've been for that. I've also seen Anaconda as many times as Chris, about 4-5. It's not really that scary at all, but I did forget that Danny Trejo and Jonathan Hyde were in this. But I never forgot that Owen Wilson, Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, and Ice Cube were ALL in this. It felt like either a monster movie trying to be a parody of other monster movies (with the cast) or a campy 90s monster movie; trying to be like "Jaws", but with a massive snake, and also, trying too hard to take itself seriously at certain points, with some laughably bad special effects, but they didn't look that bad... in 1997. They looked fine in '97. Nowadays, they make the movie seem almost like it's a movie length skit about what a giant snake movie in the jungle starring, Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Danny Trejo, Owen Wilson, and Ice Cube MIGHT look like. I'm NOT saying it's a terrible movie or anything, it's one of my favorite "so bad, it's good" movies. It just isn't a very scary movie.

[@MaxNeugebauer.]

@ That’s true. I wish Chris would stop with avoiding talking about bad movies. I highly doubt saying even just once that there’s a movie he thinks is bad he that would automatically cause damage to his filmmaking career. And he should get back to grading movies as well.

[@shawnfields2369]

@@MaxNeugebauer. Yeah, I can't agree more. I mean, Chris seemed to be this guy who spoke his mind about movies, and told us what he truly thought, and didn't hold back. And ALSO, talked about anime too. but how does NOT talking about BOTH good and bad movies not help your career? I also highly doubt just saying something, ANYTHING at all about how you feel about a movie, either good or bad, would hurt you or your chances of becoming a filmmaker. If anything, AVOIDING talking about how you feel, towards some of these films is actually pushing yourself and your real feelings even FURTHER away, and only hurting yourself. Hey, I also miss the grading system Chris used to have too. It was one of the things that made him stand out as a reviewer. I mean, every critic has some sort of rating system that makes them stand out, Chris in particular had the grading system. But he also had the Hilariocity series. Those were probably his best videos, and when Chris was at his best. And while I don't understand how being a filmmaker works, I also highly doubt that it means, NOT talking both negatively AND positively about movies, and also, I highly doubt that NOT saying anything about certain movies, in either a bad or good way, or reviewing "good" or "bad" movies, would harm your career. Is Chris just afraid of criticism or something? I don't get how NOT talking about both bad and good movies is supposed to HELP your career. If you only talk about "good" movies, or only talk positively about movies, and choose to ignore the other side, you're not helping anyone. You're only harming yourself more, if anything. Running AWAY from your problems doesn't solve them, it only makes them WORSE. And it's honestly getting harder and harder to actually watch Chris's videos, because I keep foolishly hoping that he'll go back and talk about both bad and good movies, but the thumbnail keeps fooling me, but I genuinely did want to see how he felt about "Anaconda" because I do love how ridiculous the cast and film itself manage to be. I mean, Jon Voight? Ice Cube? Owen Wilson? Jennifer Lopez? ALL in one film, about a MASSIVE killer snake? Its one of the best guilty pleasure types of movies, and I've never been afraid to admit it. Not sure why Chris decided that following your dreams means just give up on talking about both good and bad movies and even give up on grading them entirely, and also just prematurely end what was probably his best series of videos, the Hilariocity series.

[@HollowedMiku]

My mom took me to see this when I was 10 for an afternoon matinee. Jon Voight made me cry, my mom thought I was scared…nope my little brain just couldn’t handle it & was passed the point of no return where laughing wasn’t cutting it. This was a special kind of ridiculous movie that can never be replicated. Love it.

[@eyespy3001]

John Voigt's stupid face was his attempt at being "Latino," like Al Pacino attempting to be "Cuban" in Scarface.

[@KidaMilo89]

Idgaf what anyone says I love Al Pacino as Tony Montana

[@eyespy3001]

@ Pelican Fly! Come on, Pelican!

[@spencerschubert5001]

@@eyespy3001that’s my favorite line in Scarface and I say it all the time in real life. I am an ornithologist and it was a flamingo, not a pelican.

[@MikeN_LA]

I remember going to watch this in the theater with my pops and little brother. I was obsessed with drawing snakes. I was hyped for this from the promo on tv and I wasn’t disappointed. Core memory for sure. Still gets 👍👍

[@Dullfang2]

Dude, the VHS technique to skip the commercials. My family always did that too. It always just made sense to do that. I remember recording clone wars (2003) and then lent it to my friend so he and his family could watch and he was like 'yo that was a genius move to skip the commercials'

[@joannemyers9976]

I loved your hilarious take on this movie, especially about Jon Voight. I took my son to it when he was only 11. Bad judgement maybe? He’s 38 now and he says he still remembers the movie and that it didn’t give him nightmares or a phobia of snakes. And he remembers Jon’s performance being “way over the top” lol.

[@Elatenl]

6:15 that CGI is wild

[@akbarshabazz-jenkins7847]

It was the best thing ever back then though...very Mortal Kombat Annihilation-esque

[@Nicholas_Chen_]

I always loved this movie, it has amazing practical effects and a terrifying soundtrack. It made the anaconda really menacing. JLo is a badass final girl.

[@francescouffreduzzi4401]

2:03 🤣what was that laughing OMG

[@ramcarr6817]

I saw this movie 3 times with friends over opening weekend. Every time we got out of the theater we did Voigt's accent for maybe 30 minutes trying to make each other laugh. Love this movie.

[@msingleton]

Ironically my favorite part of the movies I recorded on VHS are the commercials. It’s easy to find any movie in 2024, but those commercials? Pure, rare, gold!

[@JeffGreenNV]

The ending of your review. Chefs kiss.

[@Lita64]

This is one of my favorite movies and I’ve been hoping you would cover it for years. I’m glad you appreciate it for the fun viewing experience that it is!

[@quintondebeer]

Chris...in South Africa, this movie was aired most Sundays. A solid staple when it came to weekend entertainment 😂

[@WarlordRising]

1997 was loaded with guilty pleasure creature features. Guillermo Del Toro's "Mimic", The Relic (overlooked gem), Anaconda, and Starship Troopers.

[@wstine79]

I felt this movie borrowed more from "Creature From The Black Lagoon" than "Jaws." A group end up in the jungle, encounter a retile Creature, someone tries to catch it, and their boat gets stuck.

[@AshParth560]

Ah, Anaconda. A guilty pleasure of a movie. Remembered it quite much. Not with the sequels, though.

[@shawnfields2369]

Wait, there's MORE than ONE Anaconda movie?!? But after having J-Lo, Jon Voight, Danny Trejo, Owen Wilson, and Ice Cube, how did they make sequels? This wasn't a horrible movie, just feels slightly like a parody of bad monster movies, but is a pretty good, "so bad, it's good" movie. But it's not too scary though. But it tried to be scary, at least. And everyone gives better performances than you'd expect for something like this, especially Jon Voight and his stupid obviously faked Latin accent throughout the movie, Ice Cube pretending to play the nice guy cameraman, Owen Wilson trying to be the ladies man, only to get possibly the most brutal death in the entire film...until near the end, where Voight's character tries to get BOTH Ice Cube and Jennifer Lopez killed so he can catch(or kill?) The anaconda himself? I forget. I haven't seen the film in a long time. Still one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies though. Can't deny that.

[@albertaguilar1059]

My friends and I make that Jon Voight face all the time. I'm so glad you pointed that out.

[@tatianajovana6958]

This makes me miss hilariousity videos so much! They were so much fun

[@mscamembert6798]

Hey Chris, huge fan here...LOVE your reviews. Just one small request 🙃: Can you please not place end cards like at 9:01 in the middle of your video, thus blocking movie scenes & your face? They really disrupt the viewer experience, thus being very annoying rather than useful 😅 Please consider placing them off to the side at the very end of the video and not during movie clips (or don't use them at all ). Your content is so good ❤that people are gonna keep coming back for more, with or without annoying end cards.

[@steampunkster2023]

When it came out here in the Philippines, in an era where we can only get classic movies only on pirated VHS and, God forbid, Betamax, I was not familiar with most of the actors. I only know Eric Stoltz _(Some Kind of Wonderful),_ and unfortunately I never heard of Jon Voight until years later I saw _Midnight Cowboy_ for the very first time, post 90s. The internet was an infant military platform experiment back then, so this movie was mostly a breakout for newcomers like Jennifer and the others. It was apparently cheesy and unrealistic, but yes, it dominated tv reruns in my country for a few years.

[@Mar.wanJaniol]

Such a vibe, great atmosphere here!

[@RahulJainPsychoRJ]

@ChrisStuckmann I think you will agree with Ebert's review of it; especially that he praised Anaconda unironically - Not even as hilariocity - this is just directly plain great.

[@dbarraza8848]

This shouldve been a Hilariocity

[@Screen_Prism]

If they had said fuck twice in the movie, then it would have instantly been rated R.

[@gilpinsteven]

"TriStar Pictures invites you.....on a journey into the GRIP....OF FEAR." LMFAO

[@Joestar96]

1:27 RARE moment of Chris actually saying something negative about a movie for once.

[@spycheck]

Haha

[@mattramos5822]

Best. Chris. Stuckman. Review. In. Years.

[@RSKT_music]

Something interesting about this movie is that it was rated R18+ on VHS in Australia. I'd look at the box art at the video store every time I went, but couldn't hire it out because I was too young. Me and my friends always wanted to see it, because we thought it must be pretty brutal. Eventually, it got bumped down to just an M rating, which was weird, but it allowed me to hire it. I absolutely loved the movie, but I never understood why it had the R18+ rating in the first place. Maybe due to the wasp scene? I don't know. Either way, this film was a legend amongst my friends because of it, and it made us want to watch it all the time.

[@nikitaaverin]

I first saw it in a movie theater when I was 14 and was like "This is stupid. I LOVE IT!" Flash forward to last year when I saw it again for the first time since forever and was like "This is stupid. I LOVE IT!!!" Some things never change.

[@ShawnBrown-kr7ni]

"Like, if I was still doing the Hilariocity segment, this would 100% fit in that." The fact that Stuckmann acknowledged that he doesn't do those anymore makes me miss seeing a new Hilarocity review from him....

[@AnkitGupta-u1n]

Stuckmann is the ultimate 'creature' of KZbin film criticism.

[@dnasty312]

You watch Cinematic Excrement?

[@kingslayer2999]

Chris reviews a Bad movie like Anaconda but not Joker 2 or Megalopolis 😒

[@shawnfields2369]

​@@kingslayer2999Well, that's just how you know that Joker 2, and Venom 3 are bad "bad" movies, and not "so bad, it's good" movies then, I guess?

[@t-bonesteak5057]

Good afternoon Chris, I used to watch this all the time as a kid with my cousins. Good times, I’m now 31

[@emilywilhite5807]

I would love to see the Hilariocity segments come back!!! I also have great nostalgia for this movie. I was living near Dallas and they had 1 of the theatres where they brought food and drinks to your seats. That was brand new at the time. The waitress went by with a tray full of margaritas, tripped and dumped them all on me. I got to spend the movie wet and smelling like margarita. But hey, we got our tickets and food all refunded.

[@nujabeez6573]

This movie made have my fear of snakes😢, I was in kindergarten when this movie came out and and my older brother and cousins tricked me into watching this movie on vhs when it came out. Safe to say I was traumatized

[@julius9135]

As a kid, me and my best friend lived in a building wich had a video rental place in the 1st floor. We particulary loved this snake movies, such as Anaconda 1 and 2, Boa vs. Python, etc. This movie will always have a fond place in my heart, brings back the memories of such times!

[@dspecter1187]

Jon Voight's performance and lines in this are absolutely hilarious.

[@tsuru5702]

Please bring back Hilariosity. It was sooo good!

[@kubacygan1202]

I was 10 when I saw it in the theater with my dad and loved it and then begged cinema manager for the poster which i hung on my wooden wall alongside other posters.😂😂

[@BicMitchum99]

“Guys, if you haven’t seen this movie. You probably shouldn’t.” Haha

[@DempseyPillot]

Love how Ice Cube’s very first line in this film is literally the title of his hit song “It’s A Good Day.” 😂 This movie is so unserious!

[@Bullz_eye47]

The moment when ice cube raps "F the snake coming straight from the swamp" truly a moment of all time.

[@H3rnD1zzl3]

I’d be remiss if I didn’t wish you would’ve mentioned the janky editing (see the magical, gravity-defying waterfall…) but still, in its heyday, it was considered a blockbuster of sorts. Great video!

[@neilpaliwal9102]

I think it was one of the first movies I ever watched. The Hindi dub was very popular on Indian television. Every other weekend, they would show Anaconda. It was extremely popular amongst the kids for the same reason. 50% of my early conversations with everyone were anaconda related 😂

[@hrock8081]

“You mean there’s snakes out here this big?! Yay yay…”

[@europeanguy8773]

I remember when the movie looked good on VHS and we'd watch it as kids. I'd re-watch it for nostalgia.

[@diggs9684]

Now this is what I have been waiting for! & never thought you would ever review 🤣

[@arnoldtorres9340]

Brotha when you said relic, that movie was amazing for me growing up! But anaconda is that movie that is so bad that it’s good. Great review and take care !

[@702tattooer]

Anaconda, lake placid, and deep blue sea are always childhood favorites. Lake placid was my 1st rated R movie experience as was my birthday (born 1990)

[@Intheflaps]

The two flaws to this movie is Jon Voight was more scary than the snake and the waterfall was going upwards.

[@MrSpike320]

One of my favorite guilty pleasures!!! Interestingly enough, J. Lo has only done two horror movies in her career, this and The Cell in 2000. And both are awesome!!

[@keithwoodcrest]

My dad and I used to watch this on TNT nearly every time it aired when I was a kid. He always loved all the schlocky, goofy b horror and action movies. Miss those days

[@paulvang7508]

Chris can you bless us with another hilariocity ! Lol been a while 😂

[@pastichefilms_indranil]

this is the first hollywood film we saw when we got our first cable connection back in the early 2000s. it was broadcasted on AXN

[@TimoFromNorway]

“I should preface this by saying, I’m a HUGE (insert director, actor, franchise, or character here) fan. I basically grew up watching these films and they always had a profound impact on me as a child. Without them I would probably not be in the position I am today”

[@hunterhaller4065]

Yes!! They just played this at my local Alamo like a month ago and I watched it there for the first time and had a blast watching this bizarre wonderful movie with a crowd

[@GiorgioMassignani]

great Halloween special! Arachnophobia and Anaconda were absolute TV classics when we were kids! another movie nobody talks about anymore is Congo

[@rushfit6895]

I Watched this in cinema hall ,I dont know what is good movie or bad movie but still this movie has a good memories of my childhood.

[@DanielCrookeFilms]

I too am of an age when, as a kid, your movie collection was 95% recorded from TV to VHS. We were Ninja’s of the Remote. 👌🏽👍🏽