Snake Oil: "Anaconda, reviewed."
Chris Klimek
Jack Black and Paul Rudd can’t save this ssssssssssstinker. (Sony Pictures)
You’ll want to sit down and do some exercises to limber up your brain before you try to process their supernova of perverse inspiration: Their new “Anaconda” is no mere reboot but in fact a midlife-crisis comedy about four pals who travel from Buffalo to the Amazon (as played by Queensland, Australia) to knock out a no-budget, guerilla-style remake of the 1997 Sony Pictures trash classic “Anaconda,” a fondly recalled object from their youths.
Still on the fence? Your stars are Paul Rudd and Jack Black, those winningly youthful 56-year-olds whose shtick is, like Rudd’s face, evergreen.
My Washington Post review of Anaconda, a toothless nomedy, is here.