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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures

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Anacondas PSP UMD Movie


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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: UMD for PSP
Brand: UMD Movies (various vendors)
EAN: 0043396115057
Format: Color
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-07-12
Running Time: 97
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2004-08-27


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• PSP I.Sound Theatre With Wireless Remote
• PSP Powered Audio Case
• PSP Headset
• PSP Game & UMD Case


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Very Good Sequel to the First
Comment: This 2000s sequel to the original film of the 1990s its very fun to watch, especially the first time. Although the film has many geagraphical inaccuracies like Borneo being home to giant Anacondas, tigers, and other things it delivers as what it is. There are more action sequences, and good CGI. Although most people do not know, two more sequels are in production for a 2008 release but many people will not like this: they will not be released in the theathers and I'm not going to bother mentioning where (Just remember Lake Placid 2).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Anacondas
Comment: Great movie. I saw this movie at the cinema and was impressed with the beautiful jungle pictures.
Customer Rating:
Summary: SNAKES SUPER SIZED
Comment: In 1997, Columbia released their first foray into the world of giant snakes with the film ANACONDA. It featured up and coming actress Jennifer Lopez, hot rap artist turned actor Ice Cube and thespian Jon Voight. The movie did fair business and led to a series of big snake films that have been released straight to video and on to the Sci Fi Channel. It was only a matter of time before a sequel was hatched.

The thing is, the movie is actually pretty good. Not in an Oscar category perhaps, but as one of the low budget horror fare that have been coming out since the days of the drive in, it does a great job at providing just what those going to see it expect. Good special effects, a decent story and a few thrills here and there.

The story begins in the unlikely setting of a board meeting. The company in question is about to go belly up and its main staff removed. But then they reveal the possibility of untold fortune in their newest discovery. Using the serum found in the blood orchid, they can regenerate tissue, making the drugs developed from this orchid a virtual fountain of youth. The only problem is that the blood orchid only grows in one South American location and only once every so many years and there is only a few weeks left of this bloom. Off go our intrepid gang to find the orchid!

Arriving to find it's the rainy season, they must first search to find a boat and captain willing to take them down the river to their destination. With a little money they do so, discovering a captain right out of stereotype city played by Johnny Messner.

When things look bad and the group may have to turn back, scientist Jack Byron (Matthew Marsden) offers Messner more money to continue on. Greed rules the day which unfortunately also leads them to high water and a very uninviting waterfall. With their boat crashed and no supplies, the group head out to find help in the form of another boat they make contact with.

But while they were watching the river, the group was being watched themselves by one mother of a huge anaconda. Perhaps more than 60 feet long and about 4 feet wide, the snake ends up eating one of the group as they trek cross country to find their ride.

The snake isn't their only adversary though. Dr. Byron has made the decision that they should continue on to the orchid, placing more value on the possible boatload of money they could all end up with as opposed to the chance of staying alive. And since he has the only gun in the group, he pretty much gets his way.

Skipping ahead, the orchids are found, but nestled near a pit filled with not one but many of the deadly, huge snakes. It's mating season and they are all in high spirits around the snake skinned hottie that they all want. Will the group survive or will they simply become trapped mice in a snake filled, rain forest aquarium? Watch and see in a movie that may not be tops, but offers fine performances, great direction and a familiar story that delivers what you should expect - entertainment.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Save Your Money!
Comment: Anacondas-The Hunt for the Blood Orchid is a very bad sequel to the 1997 film Anaconda. The film has good acting and special effects, but the problems in this film make the movie just horrible. The first problem- ANACONDAS DON'T LIVE IN BORENO!!!!!!!. The expedition there to find the Blood Orchid, a flower that prolongs life, goes wrong when the crew is attacked by giant Anacondas. This is totally science fiction because Anacondas live in South America, not Asia. The Second Problem- Anacondas are meat eaters. In the movie, the explorers find out that the Anacondas they encountered are so big because they have been eating the Blood Orchird, which prolongs their life. (Anacondas keep growing until they die, so the longer their life, the bigger they are.) This is a major problem since Anacondas eat mammels, not plants. The Third Problem- Anacondas don't eat people. During the expedition, about half the crew is eaten by the Anacondas. Anacondas don't have the stomach or the mouth to eat people.
I can't really think of anything positive to say about this movie other than what I already said at the beginning of the review. All in all, this was a very bad horror movie.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Banal and lifeless sequel
Comment: "Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid" differs significantly from its predecessor, the 1997 film "Anaconda" starring the always luscious Jennifer Lopez. No, it has nothing to do with the fact that Lopez isn't in the sequel. Nor does it have anything to do with the significantly lower budget, no name actors, poor performances, cackhanded script, cheesy special effects, and an annoying monkey--all things that the first film largely avoided but which appear with frightening regularity in the sequel. The primary difference involves the plural use of the term "anaconda". You see, in the first film we had only one gigantic anaconda to worry about. In the sequel, we have many huge snakes to wrap our heads around. Thus the use of "anacondas" instead of "anaconda". Get it? Good. Of course, the producers of "Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid" obviously thought adding a few more snakes to the storyline would translate into more action onscreen. Don't be afraid. This is a common practice in Tinseltown. Law requires that any sequel must add more than the original. It doesn't matter what they're adding; they simply must add MORE. More snakes, more carnage, more nekkid women, more gore. On to the review...

"Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid" has more of just about everything, but that doesn't mean I had more fun. Oddly, I had less fun watching this than the original "Anaconda". What gives? Let's summarize the plot together and see if we can find an answer. The film starts with a bunch of hokum about some huge pharmaceutical company spending billions of dollars on some research project involving some special plant called the blood orchid. In a genuinely unexciting series of events, the executives of the company explain that this flower possesses the ability to extend life significantly. They messed around with a sample in the laboratory, but the experiment destroyed the small specimen. Now they want more so they can make trillions of dollars selling this stuff to a bunch of rich people who are afraid to die. One jerk bellows that the blood orchid drug will be bigger than Viagra. Oh really? I'd hope so. Let's see: I can live to 150 or I can die at 70 with a pocket rocket. That's called a no brainer, folks. After this discussion I'm surprised no one cracked, "Is that an anaconda in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

Anyway, the suits need the flower now and a mission must head out right away because the blood orchid only grows in Borneo and only blooms once every seven years. In other words, it's gone in less than two weeks. So a team must head out posthaste. This means Sam Rogers (KaDee Strickland), Dr. Jack Byron (Matthew Marsden), Dr. Ben Douglas (Nicholas Gonzalez), Tran (Karl Yune), Gail Stern (Salli Richardson-Whitfield), and Gordon Mitchell (Morris Chestnut) must quickly hire a boat captain named Bill Johnson (Johnny Messner) and sail up a river in Borneo to the lair of the blood orchid. A quick note: they're probably more people heading up the river than what I listed here, but I don't care. They only exist so that the movie can kill them off at regular intervals. So up the river the team goes, arguing all the time and facing one adversity after another. Poisonous spiders that can paralyze a person, bad weather in the form of the "rainy season," and intergroup tensions all spoil the scenic trip. The anacondas enter the picture when we learn that their mating activity just happens to take place near the blood orchids. Hijinks ensue. The end.

"Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid" should really carry a title of, "Anacondas: The Hunt for a Good Movie". As the timer on my DVD player ticked on and on, and as my eyes slowly assumed that glazed over look I get whenever I watch b-grade schlock, I knew I was seeing something incredibly underwhelming. The movie is a forgettable, straight to DVD affair that adds absolutely nothing to the world of the animals run amok genre. You've seen this all before in countless other films. The arguing, the evil guy in the group who eventually turns on the others, the heroine, the grizzled yet fearless expedition leader, the endless monkey reaction shots--it's all here in mind numbing detail. Then we get the poorly realized CGI anacondas, big and ugly looking snakes roughly the size of storm sewers, chowing down on the hapless victims. Sigh. Remember when I wrote above that I had less fun watching the sequel, despite the producers adding MORE to their movie, than I had while watching the original? Well, here's your grand answer. I almost felt like the Richard Dreyfuss character in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" when he's building that mashed potato Devil's Tower and he intones, "This means something." Then I realized "Anacondas" doesn't mean anything at all. It's hollow at the core, a mindless b-movie larded with cliches.

Mindless movie fare, however, can be good if you feel like switching your brain off for ninety minutes. If that's the case, you could do worse than "Anacondas". If you still care about the movie after watching it, you can dip into the paltry extras included on the disc. The primary supplement is a featurette containing interviews with selected members of the cast and crew, some information on the special effects, and behind the scenes footage. Deleted scenes and previews for other Sony features round out the disc. As for picture and audio quality, both are better than passable for such a forgettable film. Good luck, my friends, and enjoy your hunt for the blood orchid. I know I didn't.

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