Genre: Thriller, Adventure, Horror, Animals, Betrayal, Suspense
Tagline: The hunters will become the hunted.
Plot: Set deep in a primitive Borneo jungle, where an extremely rare red orchid – the “blood orchid” – may hold the key to producing a youth-preserving serum. When a gung-ho group of scientists embark on a treacherous journey into the jungle to find the orchid – in the hopes that a fountain-of-youth discovery will make their careers and their corporate bosses a lot of money – they quickly realize that more than bad weather and heavy undergrowth separate them from their treasure.Within the mysteries of the jungle lies a deadly predator that keeps the secret of the orchids safe and stops anyone who dares to enter its territory from
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 ''Anacondas'' has no pretensions and gets its little job done effectively, providing some small-scale laughs and chills for the late summer season.--Dave Kehr (The New York Times)
The movie, I should add, seems to have very little in common with the "original," if such a word may be used, of 1997. It's really not a sequel in any sense, but just another darn anaconda movie!--Stephen Hunter (Washington Post)
The luckiest straight-to-video production ever, “Anacondas” actually does contain some mild fun in between the terrible writing and cheap production values. However, the biggest problem comes in the form of the title snake, which isn’t even in the film very much. What’s the point of an “Anaconda” film without the snake mayhem? C--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
‘Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid’ is a perfectly average late summer offering and the best result that could have ever come out of such a project.  --Joe Rickey (Movie-Gurus.com)
The biggest problem here, as in the first Anaconda, is that there really isn't anything scary about the film at all. We've seen these snakes before and yawned, and while director Dwight Little chooses to keep them offscreen much of the time, tension is never achieved, and certainly not any element of surprise.  --Vince Leo (Qwipster.net)
The dialogue is obvious and melodramatic, the musical score emphasizes screechy strings and ominous-sounding brass, and the scares are perfunctory, mostly of the we-thought-it-was-the-snake-but-it-turns-out-it-was-just-a-monkey variety. D--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
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.  --Robert Dominguez (New York Daily News)
...uncharismatic no-name actors half-assly delivering crappy dialogue (which it apparently took four peeps to write?) via stereotypical characters who never really get past their accents in terms of development. 4/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
But 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. --Megan Lehmann (New York Post)
Save for a couple unintentional guffaws near the beginning, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid doesn't even fall into the "so bad it's entertaining" category. It is a chore to sit through, as unscary, threadbare, and downright dull as these kinds of movies come.  --Dustin Putman (The Movie Insider)
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Dwight H. Little
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the jungle…Anacondas is an enjoyably trashy sequel, though it’s a little too attached to its cast for its own good.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
Snakes alive! Unlike the original 'Anaconda', this multi-serpent shocker has fewer scares than Monty Python - and nowhere near as many laughs, either. 4/10--Anton Bitel (Movie Gazette)
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid takes the original to more basic level of ‘horror’ and ‘suspense’. All involved intended to make a popcorn chomping summer fun-fest. There was plenty of corny dialogue, some of which we are supposed to laugh at and some that is not so clear. C---Bruce Bluett (TheCinemaSource)
A decent movie to watch on TV, where you don't have to pay money to see it; A better flick than the original, but that isn't saying much. Not recommended. 5/10--FrighT MasteR (UHM)
Take it for what it is; a cgi-monster movie, they just don't tend to get much better than this so I think that this was just about as good as this movie could get. What were you expecting from a movie like Anacondas 2? It's not The Ring or The Sixth Sense, it's just a movie about giant anacondas eating people. --AnthroFred (SlasherPool)
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