SPOILERS for Anaconda. Contemplate your self warned. Anaconda, the meta-reboot of the 1997 cult hit starring Jennifer Lopez and Ice Dice, has arrived in theaters, however in true Hollywood vogue, director Tom Gormican shot a last-minute cameo solely weeks earlier than the premiere of the movie.
Who Makes a Cameo in Anaconda?
Anaconda truly contains two cameos from the unique movie. The primary, an look from Ice Cube, has already been spoiled in trailers and is a bit more substantial, however the second options none apart from Jennifer Lopez. Getting JLo concerned was one thing the staff wished to occur from the very starting, however the schedules didn’t align till the final minute.
“That was additionally a product of reshoots,” Gormican instructed THR. “We tried to get it as a part of principal images, however we couldn’t make schedules coordinate. We had at all times wished a model of her to come back in, and we talked about it and talked about it and talked about it. I used to be lastly capable of shoot her cameo a month in the past on November 17. It was the very very last thing we did. I used to be ending up my ultimate combine after I went to shoot it, and I dropped it into this [mid-credit] sequence that I used to be having constructed to accommodate it. I by no means thought it was going to finally materialize, nevertheless it did, and we put it collectively. So it occurred very, very late within the recreation, however we did have the thought a very long time in the past.“
What Do Critics Consider Anaconda?
Anaconda has acquired combined evaluations, with our personal Chris Bumbray discovering it to be a largely humourless effort.
“It’s a tame PG-13 vacation farce that settles for delicate, toothless humor and isn’t practically as incisive about reboots—and even the unique Anaconda—appropriately,” Bumbray wrote. “The movie goes even additional off the rails as soon as the mutant, man-eating anacondas present up, with Gormican awkwardly making an attempt to juggle carnage and comedy. Sarcastically, the unique 1997 Anaconda—which performed every little thing straight—is no less than ten occasions funnier than this deliberately comedic model.” You’ll be able to try the remainder of his evaluation right here.
