Anaconda
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: December 25, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
19
Negative:
6

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithDec 26, 2025
Jack Black and Paul Rudd are nearly always enjoyable, even when working with less-than-scintillating material, and each has a boyish streak that’s exactly the right register for this exercise in silliness. Read full review
60
The GuardianJesse HassengerDec 23, 2025
Rudd and Black make the new Anaconda easy enough to accept as a comedy with a dash of clunky effects-based creature action, rather than a full-blown horror-comedy. Read full review
53
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzDec 23, 2025
Similar to getting caught in the grip of a giant Amazonian snake, in which you have the privilege of hearing your bones break before the power of the embrace causes your veins to explode, the experience of watching Tom Gormican’s new action-comedy Anaconda is a painful one. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaDec 24, 2025
Rudd does his lovable simpleton shtick and manic Black carries on, as per usual, like a scruffy Don Quixote, but the film around them doesn’t quite keep pace with their go-for-broke absurdity. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireDec 23, 2025
It’s an inspired idea, even though a lot of the industry inside jokes may go over most moviegoers’ heads. The playfulness of this self-referential structure gives the movie a zany energy off the top that it ultimately can’t sustain. Read full review
50
ColliderAidan KelleyDec 23, 2025
Anaconda had the premise and bones to be something really special when it comes to meta remakes. It had a great cast and a surprising amount of heart, but that's simply not enough to save the movie's rough pacing and pointless subplots from the jaws of a giant snake who barely appears on the call sheet. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichDec 23, 2025
Anaconda constricts its premise a little tighter as it moves along (if only because the absurdity ratchets up in a way that forces the film to adopt a clearer sense of itself), and there are some undeniably amusing bits of stupidity along the way. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineMark HansonDec 23, 2025
Regrettably, the one star of Anaconda that gets the shortest shrift is the most important one: the snake. Read full review
40
EmpireMatt GlasbyJan 6, 2026
Boasting more star power than all the Anacondas put together, but noticeably fewer laughs, what could have been a fresh take on familiar material ends up a regurgitated mess. Read full review
40
The Travers TakePeter TraversDec 26, 2025
Jack Black and Paul Rudd can’t carry the unbearable weight of massive missteps in this comic remake of the 1997 snake movie that was always funnier when it tried to be serious. Read full review
40
The RevealKeith PhippsDec 23, 2025
It’s as if everyone seemed to think that all the film needed was to assemble the right pieces and the rest would take care of itself. And with pros like these, they almost do. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonDec 23, 2025
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent director Tom Gormican once again latches on to a meta-movie idea with great comic potential, but this limp satire of vain actors, deluded filmmakers and shamelessly recycled IP quickly starts to sputter. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreDec 23, 2025
The movie is all concept and, well, not quite no execution, but such confusing, conflicted execution that it makes the entire exercise feel like it was messed with after the fact. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeDec 23, 2025
The movie could have really used some of that anarchic, industry-skewering “Tropic Thunder” energy. The only risk taken here was asking Sony — plus any surviving members of the original cast — to poke fun at themselves, which only goes so far when the film has no fangs. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterAngie HanDec 23, 2025
The film leans into action-comedy, and for a while, coasts by on the pre-sold likability of its cast. Read full review
40
Next Best PictureJosh ParhamDec 23, 2025
This new Anaconda does have some occasionally clever bits, and a smile can indeed stretch across your face from time to time. But those moments are fleeting, buried under a sea of other jokes that don’t land and a cash-in on nostalgia that is never really warranted. Read full review
40
IGNMatt DonatoDec 23, 2025
Anaconda is a disappointing follow-up for Gormican, who cannot crack the code on Sony's bewildering aquatic not-really-horror reboot. A cast of proven funny people are lost in a thick brush of hacky bits and ineffective storytelling, unable to machete their way through to a redeeming climax. There are brief bursts of creature-feature excitement and belly-tickling humor, but way more stretches of bafflingly unclear ambitions that feel like they're struggling to keep the "movie within a movie" gimmick afloat. It's Anaconda without the aqua-horror chills, throwback practical effects, and midnight-movie entertainment—what an odd choice. Read full review
40
ScreenCrushMatt SingerDec 23, 2025
In a world where the lacerating corporate filmmaking satire The Studio already exists, broad jokes about wacky animal trainers and ego-driven actors trying to influence their projects to benefit their own roles just won’t cut it. Read full review
40
Screen RantGregory NussenDec 23, 2025
Anaconda aims to be Bowfinger for a new generation but ends up feeling as insipid as the film it is loosely based on. Its target audience is people nostalgic for the salad days of studio blockbusters, who are righteously frustrated with executives for cashing in on material they don't understand. Read full review
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