Anaconda (1997)

There's one big thing to be said in Anaconda's favour. It takes you back to the days of old-fashioned B-movies, when man-vs-monster films were still made cheaply, and when cast and crew looked to be having all sorts of hammy fun. These days, films like Twister or Dante's Peak at heart, exactly the same sort of movie cost $60m or $100m, but much of the quirky rattling-yarniness gets lost. Not a criticism you could level at Anaconda. Yes, this is cheap, desperate, wretched movie-making. But dammit, it's fun.

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