They just don't make good giant snake movies like they used to. Anaconda is hysterically bad for such a big-budget thriller with an impressive cast. Anaconda is filled with some of the worst dialogue this side of Congo. Everything that happens in this cheap-looking film is a set up for a wild and violent animated snake attack. The giant, swift-moving snakes in Anaconda are almost all computer generated.
Nothing is real.
The PG-13 rating is for violence. In this movie, the giant snakes often eat and regurgitate their dinner. Anaconda is barely 90 minutes long, and other than the three viscious snake attacks. Louis Losa, who directed Sylvester Stallone in The Specialist has created an enormously corny movie that is funny to a fault, forcing the audience into fits of laughter rather than fits of terror. Anaconda is rated PG-13 for three violent snake attacks, all of them much too intense for small children.