Anacondas:  The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

directed by Dwight H. Little (Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home)
story by Hans Bauer (Titan A.E.) and Jim Cash (Legal Eagles) & Jack Epps, Jr. (Legal Eagles)
screenplay by John Claflin (They Nest) & Daniel Zelman (They Nest) and Michael Miner (Robocop) & Ed Neumeier (Robocop)
 
starring  Johnny Messner (The Whole Ten Yards), KaDee Strickland (The Stepford Wives), Matthew Marsden (Black Hawk Down), Nicholas Gonzalez (Spun), Eugene Byrd (8 Mile), Karl Yune

low expectation:  
        Is this actually a sequel to Anaconda?  Aside from the story being written by the three guys who wrote that film, I see no connection.  And when the credit is given to those three guys, I have a feeling it isn't because they actually wrote a second story involving anacondas but just made this like a remake with different characters, settings and general plot.  If so then they shouldn't get any credit at all.  The "story" is conventional genre material.  It doesn't matter what specific plot is or what the big monster is.  Deep Blue Sea wasn't based on Jaws anymore than Lake Placid was based on Alligator or more than Anacondas... is connected to Anaconda.  The only difference nowadays is title length.  With marquees going electronic, producers no longer care if a title is as long as this one.  We caught on to that last year with colon after colon after colon. 
         I never saw the other anaconda movie and so originally made the expectation of never possibly seeing this new one.  Now that I see no link, I feel kinda in the mood for a schlocky genre picture if I get bored, so it is possible I might catch it.

follow-up:
    If you get the itching for a simple, conventional genre film, you could do much worse than Anacondas.  It is no more, no less than you expect it to be and with this year's crop of disappointments, the familiar helping of low brow entertainment is satisfying. 

website:
SonyPictures.com

synopsis/press release:

        In this sequel to the 1997 thriller, the hunt for a medicine that prevents humans from aging is thought to come from a rare blood orchid that grows aside a distant river. But when a group of scientists finds the sacred flower, they encounter an evil they never imagined, and realize they may never leave the jungle again.

Expectation Key


there's no possible way we will even see this

we'll eventually see this but we aren't really expecting much

anticipating the release of this one but we're sure to be left unsatisfied

such high expectation of this film only leaves room for disappointment