History YMMV / Anaconda

* NarmCharm: Creator/JonVoight's performance as Paul Sarone is absurdly over the top and its clear that whoever thought that casting Voight as a character with a thick ambiguously South American accent was a good idea was probably high. That said, in a film where the rest of the cast is so clearly apathetic about their performances its not hard to find yourself mesmerized by [[LargeHam the pure and total hamminess]] of Voight's performance simply because unlike the rest of the cast he's actually trying. Winking at the heroes as if to say, "I told you so", when regurgitated by the snake is probably the high point of the film.

* NarmCharm: Jon Voight's performance as Paul Sarone is absurdly over the top and its clear that whoever thought that casting Voight as a character with a thick ambiguously South American accent was a good idea was probably high. That said, in a film where the rest of the cast is so clearly apathetic about their performances its not hard to find yourself mesmerized by [[LargeHam the pure and total hamminess]] of Voight's performance simply because unlike the rest of the cast he's actually trying. Winking at the heroes as if to say, "I told you so", when regurgitated by the snake is probably the high point of the film.

* MagnificentBastard: Paul Sarone plays everyone like a fiddle in his quest for the snake. Only the expedition leader momentarily catches on to his play, but is none the wiser as Sarone paralyzes him with a poisonous wasp. He set up the whole thing with Matteo from the start, while keeping the clueless passengers in the dark that they were to be used as bait. He suggests to Owen Wilson's character that [[WeCanRuleTogether he needs a partner and they could split the profits]], them lets the Anaconda eat him as soon as his prize is at stake. He's proven correct pretty much every time the crew decide not to take his advice. He seems to [[FaceDeathWithDignity accept his impending death]] by a vengeful killer, only to swiftly murder her when she hesitates. His manipulation is so effective that he barely even needs to resort to outright violence until they finally catch on to him.

* MagnificentBastard: Sarone plays everyone like a fiddle in his quest for the snake. Eric Stoltz is the only person who manages to outsmart him even once.

* SoBadItsGood: Many viewers consider this film laughably stupid. Creator/RogerEbert is one of the film's biggest supporters in this regard, often referring to it as "great trash".

* MoralEventHorizon: In the second film, [[spoiler:Dr Jack Byron]] establishes himself as a proper villain when he paralyzes one of his friends with a venomous spider (which leads to the guy getting eaten while immobilized), and steals the boats so the others are stranded to fend for themselves. When he runs into them again, he holds three hostages to make the fourth crawl dangerously close to the anaconda mating ball (aka dozens of males around an even bigger female) to get the orchid. So it's LaserGuidedKarma when he gets paralyzed by that same spider and falls right into the ball himself.

** ''Anaconda'': Between the weightless CGI models and the dull, dead-looking animatronics (though one could say that the CGI snakes are at least better than the animatronics), the anacondas are ''not'' inspiring fear. Especially silly is the short tussle between an anaconda and a jaguar, which looks like a wrestling match broke out at a taxidermist's office.

* MoralEventHorizon: In the second film, [[spoiler:Jack]] paralyzing one of his friends with a venomous spider (leading to him getting eaten while immobilized), and stealing the boats so the others are stranded to fend for themselves.
** And then he holds three hostage to make a forth crawl dangerously close to the anaconda mating ball (aka dozens of males around an even bugger female) to get the orchid.
*** So it's LaserGuidedKarma when he gets paralyzed by that same spider and fall right into the ball himself.
* NarmCharm: Jon Voight's performance as Paul Sarone is absurdly over the top and its clear that whoever thought that casting Voight as a character with a thick ambiguously South American accent was a good idea was probably high. That said, in a film where the rest of the cast is so clearly apathetic about their performances its not hard to find yourself mesmerized by [[LargeHam the pure and total haminess]] of Voight's performance simply because unlike the rest of the cast he's actually trying.
** Winking at the heroes as if to say, "I told you so", when regurgitated by the snake is probably the high point of the film.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Between the weightless CGI models and the dull, dead-looking animatronics (though one could say that the CGI snakes are at least better than the animatronics), the anacondas are ''not'' inspiring fear. Especially silly is the short tussle between an anaconda and a jaguar, which looks like a wrestling match broke out at a taxidermist's office. The sequels are even worse.

* SoBadItsGood: Many viewers consider this film laughably stupid. RogerEbert is one of the film's biggest supporters in this regard, often referring to it as "great trash".

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* CompleteMonster: Paul Sarone.

* SoBadItsGood: Many viewers consider this film laughably stupid.

* NightmareFuel: While as noted below most of the CGI isn't that good, the scene in ''Hunt for the Blood Orchid'' where the characters are walking through the water and there's clearly a large yellow anaconda gliding between them is downright creepy, along with the cave scenes, which took advantage of NothingIsScarier.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Between the weightless CGI models and the dull, dead-looking animatronics, the anacondas are ''not'' inspiring fear. Especially silly is the short tussle between an anaconda and a jaguar, which looks like a wrestling match broke out at a taxidermist's office. The sequels are even worse.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Between the weightless CGI models and the dull, dead-looking animatronics, the anacondas are ''not'' inspiring fear. Especially silly is the short tussle between an anaconda and a jaguar, which looks like a wrestling match broke out at a taxidermist's office. The sequels are [[ItGotWorse even worse]].

** Winking at the heroes as if to say, "I told you so", when regurgiatated by the snake is probably the high point of the film.

* SoBadItsGood: Many viewers consider this film laughably stupid.

* SoBadItsGood: Many viewers consider this film laughably stupid, although some just find it DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible instead.

* MagnificentBastard: Sarone plays everyone like a fiddle in his quest for the snake.

** ''Hunt for the Blood Orchid'' may have had terrible CGI, but it doesn't compare to the sequels that followed it up.

** Hunt for the Blood Orchid may have had terrible CGI, but it doesn't compare to the sequels that followed it up.

* Hunt for the Blood Orchid may have had terrible CGI, but it doesn't compare to the sequels that followed it up.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Between the weightless CGI models and the dull, dead-looking animatronics, the anacondas are ''not'' inspiring fear. Especially silly is the short tussle between an anaconda and a jaguar, which looks like a wrestling match broke out at a taxidermist's office. The sequels are [[ItGotWorse even worse]].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Between the weightless CGI models and the dull, dead-looking animatronics, the anacondas are ''not'' inspiring fear. Especially silly is the short tussle between an anaconda and a jaguar, which looks like a wrestling match broke out at a taxidermist's office.

* MagnificentBastard: Sarone plays everyone like a fiddle in his quest for the snake.

* CompleteMonster: Paul Sarone.