When news first broke that a new Anaconda movie was in the works, I was… a little baffled. How do you recapture the specific, late-90s energy of Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, and Owen Wilson fighting an oversized snake in the Amazon rainforest?
As it turns out, that dilemma is exactly at the heart of the new movie itself, in the most fun way possible. On Wednesday, Sony Pictures released the first official trailer for their “reboot” of Anaconda, which stars Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Thandiwe Newton, and Steve Zahn. As the footage shows, there’s a reason why I put reboot in quotes: Rudd and Black’s characters are childhood best friends who set out to remake Anaconda, only for things to go hilariously (and violently) wrong.
