‘Anaconda’ Review: High-Concept Cover Version Flips Genres, Revisiting Killer-Snake ‘Classic’ With Scant Laughs and Zero Scares

With “Anaconda,” the Hollywood studio system comes closer than ever to devouring its own tail. In 1997, Sony Pictures made “Anaconda,” a notoriously insipid creature feature starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and a ferocious animatronic snake. The low-rent “Jaws” knockoff was conceived as a horror movie, but received by many as a comedy — the […]