Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Sufficient cheap thrills and enough of the prevailing camp quality.

Variety Scott Foundas

Sublimely trashy, this conceptual sequel to 1997's surprise hit, "Anaconda," doesn't expect to be taken any more seriously than its schlock predecessor, and keeps its tongue-in-cheek thrills flowing rapidly.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

A highly entertaining movie assured of its genre-jumping potential.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Funny, suspenseful, and well paced, this is definitely the summer's best time waster.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

It's one of those "I-can't-believe-I'm-enjoying-this" kind of things.

Portland Oregonian Karen Karbo

The charming thing about Anacondas is that it neither takes itself too seriously nor is it steeped in postmodern irony.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

For all its improbable characters, wretched dialogue and stock situations, the movie has an earnest dumbness that sneaks up on you to be surprisingly entertaining.

USA Today Mike Clark

At least director Dwight Little (Free Willy 2) gives us enough B-movie speed to keep Orchid from becoming a fountain of aging.

Washington Post Jen Chaney

Still manages to one-up its predecessor, 1997's unintentionally campy "Anaconda."

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Competent formula entertainment, but doesn't make that leap into pure barminess that inspired "Anaconda."

The New York Times Dave Kehr

A programmer that once upon a time would have played on the bottom half of double bills, Anacondas has no pretensions and gets its little job done effectively, providing some small-scale laughs and chills for the late summer season.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

From its jungle forays to its waterfall tumbles to its deadly spider bites - is entirely, utterly unoriginal.

TV Guide Ken Fox

Supremely silly but undeniably fun sequel.

Chicago Tribune Ellen Fox

To be fair, it's little better or worse than the original. But, to be honest, the original--minus its nascent stars--wasn't very good.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Director Dwight Little, who has made many mediocre films as well as the gleefully gory Robert Englund version of "The Phantom of the Opera," gets at least one thing right -- he really does take time to establish the characters.

Empire Scott Russon

Exactly as ordinary as you're already expecting it's going to be.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

More tongue in cheek than its predecessor, and yet less over the top, it won't do any permanent damage. Of course, it won't leave much of a lasting impression, either.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

There's nothing really wrong with it -- it's bad, but no worse than it needs to be, which is the problem.

New York Daily News Robert Dominguez

It's never a good sign when the creepiest moment in a movie about monstrous 50-foot snakes is the sight of 2-inch leeches sucking on someone's back.

New York Post Megan Lehmann

The biggest problem with the corny horror film Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid is that its titular reptiles are about as scary as jellied eels.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

There's no enjoyably outlandish hiss to this variation on the formula, and no Ice Cube or Owen Wilson, either. This time, a ship of capitalist fools (and no movie stars, unless you count utility player Morris Chestnut as a headliner) steams along the river in Borneo.

Village Voice Ben Kenigsberg

Clearly a bottom-feeder.

Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman

The real problem isn't that Anacondas is bad – it's just so bland, so unremarkable, so by-the-numbers, and so instantly forgettable that bad might be a step up.

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

What they don't do often enough is battle anacondas. It's all tease and no payoff.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

This movie didn't have to be good, but that it's so boring in its badness is tough to swallow.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

The refined taste insists on risibly bad, on hysterically bad, on poke-your-seatmate-in-the-ribs bad, and this falls well short of that hallowed mark -- it's just routinely bad.

San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer

The sequel might have the formula down, but it lacks everything that made "Anaconda'' fun.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

When the CGI snakes finally arrive, they look like they've just returned from a guest spot on "Charmed;" if the film had cut any more corners, it would have had to borrow graphics from an old Intellivision game.