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Snakes in Movies   Anaconda (2025)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is a big snake in the jungle horror-comedy starring Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Thandiwe Newton, and Steve Zahn, four middle-aged friends who made movies as kids who decide to remake Anaconda, one of their favorite old movies, calling it a reboot, a reimagining or a spiritual sequel. Part of the humor is watching how low-budget their production is with only one camera, one microphone, and one not-so-gigantic snake. Fortunately, the film we're watching is much more well-made. We already know how this kind of movie ends, but the fun is seeing what happens along the way. Unlike the other films in the Anaconda franchise, this one is meant to be funny, but there is also plenty of blood and a few jump scares. The quartet scrapes up enough money to go to the Brazilian Amazon where they hire a riverboat, but things immediately go wrong when they get mixed up in a plot to smuggle illicit gold. They hire a snake wrangler named Santiago (Selton Mello) who brought his pet anaconda named Heitor, but then they lose Heitor in a bloody accident. The snake then gets a Viking funeral. When they go into the jungle to find a new snake, a giant monster anaconda finds them. As the director Doug (Jack Black) puts it: "...we came out here to remake Anaconda, and now we're in it." At one point the group's river boat is passed on the river by several boats with a big studio film crew who are also doing a reboot of Anaconda. But the giant snake gets them first. Ice Cube from the original film is also with them and he has a brief cameo. Unfortunately, there are no real snakes in the movie. All of the anacondas are CGI or props. Even though the orginal was made almost 30 years before this one, the CGI giant snake is not a whole lot more believable. But that never seems to matter in giant snake movies.