Movie review
December 24, 2025 · 100 min · PG-13
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
This 2025 meta-comedy follows a group of childhood friends in midlife crisis—Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Steve Zahn, and Thandiwe Newton—who head to the Amazon to shoot a low-budget remake of their favorite 1997 snake movie. Real giant anacondas and some criminals turn it into a chaotic survival ride focused on friendship and chasing dumb dreams. The story sticks to buddy-adventure gags and light Hollywood satire with zero identity politics, lectures, or social-justice messaging. Diverse casting is incidental and never framed as an agenda.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Anaconda.
Woke representation / casting
Mixed cast with Thandiwe Newton as one childhood friend; incidental and never marketed or plotted as diversity push.
Woke political dialogue
None reported in plot or reviews.
Identity-driven story themes
Pure universal friendship and adventure story.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Mild comedic satire on low-budget indie filmmaking and remakes.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Virtually none; no credible backlash claiming excessive identity politics.
Creator track record context
Straight comedy background with zero activist pattern.
Production
