Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence/action, strong language, some drug use and suggestive references). In theaters Dec. 25. Who would have thought that 1997’s “Anaconda,” in which ...

Jack Black and Paul Rudd star in a self-aware revival of so-bad-it’s-good ’90s favorite 'Anaconda,' where the only joke that lands is the idea that anyone would want to remake that movie. With ...

“Jaws” is “Jaws” at sea, “Alien” is “Jaws” in space, and the 1997 anti-classic “Anaconda” is . . . “Jaws” for dummies. A certain fond self-deprecation on the part of Sony Pictures, which made the ...

It is probably too much hyperbole to call Sony’s Anaconda the funniest movie of the year, but for my money it really is. It initially started out to be the studio’s desire to remake or “reimagine” its ...