Lake Placid vs. Anaconda Reviews

Initial Thought: Well I have watched all the movies of both series so far so why not. First though let me acknowledge how dreadful the title is. Lake Placid vs Anaconda is so uncreative. Plus it sounds like the Anaconda is fighting a body of water not huge hungry crocodiles. Anyways it's Syfy can't always expect logic.

Characters/Acting: Yancy Butler and Robert Englund return from the previous film. This is Yancy's third movie in the franchise. Newcomer to the series is Corin Nemec who is a welcome addition in my book. The scientists in the beginning must have thought they were in a Troma film with how bad their acting was. In fact the acting here is absolutely dreadful I would have thought that it would have been better. The previous film had quite decent acting. At least we have Corin Nemec, Yancy Butler, and Robert Englund to pick up the slack. The bitchy sorority leader was such an awful person, but I just couldn't help being amused by her. Ferguson and Margot the goth girl are the only new characters other than Tull that I liked. That Robert Englund laugh just sounds so wicked.

Story: Your basic larger than regular monsters duking it out in a populated area. Once again causing humans to have to take a stand against the creatures. The anaconda barely does anything at all here which is really disappointing. It should just be called Lake Placid 5: featuring brief anaconda appearances. Some of the situations here are unexplained and seem pretty much impossible. In particular how does a crocodile get under a bed in a hotel room? This is really cheesy and sadly not in a good way. The crocodiles have the most kills here, but the anacondas kills are much more interesting. The ending was not that bad.

Directing/Writing: This seems to be A.B. Stone's directorial debut. Berkeley Anderson has written the Jarhead sequel which the director of the previous Lake Placid film directed. That's a weird coincidence! It seems though that Berkeley might not have been what made Jarhead 2 good. There are tons of random facepalm scenes and dialogue that this could have done without.

Final Thought: It seems that they couldn't be consistent in keeping the series on the positive end after the previous film. The good actors here don't save this. It was just ridiculous. There were many plot holes and nonsensical moments. It could have been a fun little watch, but sadly they really didn't execute this well. Not the worst of the series though, but it was pretty close. It seems they left an open ending for a future installment. They probably will end up doing more. You can always count on Syfy to milk something until the audience is practically zero. Anyways skip this. Not even worth the good actors it collected.