Boa vs. Python (2004)

Touches You

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

After it gets lost in transition and escapes into the wild, an agent and a snake wrangler enlist a scientist's genetically-engineered snake to battle the indestructible snake loose in the wild before its owner tracks it down and kills it.This is one of the more cheesy yet entertaining creature-features around and manages to get a lot right. One of the many positives here is the film's high cheese factor that comes into play here, starting immediately and then continuing along throughout here. The idea of tying in the snake's release in a blazing fire-fight from its handlers with a wrestling match that plays off the two snakes out hunting in the rest of the film which starts this and gives it a great base for the later cheesy scenes in here that is based on a very clever premise about how the two snakes come into the storyline. Instead of having the two snakes being in a jungle and them fighting over territory, this one has the python being shipped in for a big game hunt only to have it escape and the government recruits a captive boa to track the snake. This is a pretty clever new idea and makes for a skew of new ideas all from the cheesiness of this one. This also leads into the fun fact that this one contains as much action as it does, with creepy and immensely cheesy series of battles out in the woods concerning the hunters trying to track down the giant beast but getting slaughtered pretty handily, a slew of rather intriguing one-off attacks as the snakes are let loose in the forest as well as the power-plant to a pretty chilling underground tunnel encounter that has a lot of creepiness as to when the creature will come out leading to the big battle in the equipment room and then down into the tunnels below-ground and a truly cheesy and exploitative sequence in a dance club that really could've only been pulled off in a movie like this one due to the rather dumb nature of what happens overall as well as the resulting chaos that erupts from the scene when it starts attacking the attendees and gets to really up the body count before it gets to the final showdown between the creatures. While the frequent nudity and cheese make it somewhat exciting, there's still a few problems to this one. One of the bigger problems here is that the film is mostly bloodless and doesn't have any really creative deaths for the victims and doesn't really have anything really stand-out for its kills. The film does have a pretty high body count, but all are killed in pretty dry situations as there is an almost total lack of gore in the movie. The goriest death is actually that of the losing snake, but beyond that this one feels quite dry most of the time. As well, the fact that the CGI for this one is quite atrocious and really terrible doesn't help it much with the really stand-out pixelation used in creating the snakes being quite obvious. These here are what hold this one back.Rated R: Graphic Language, Brief Nudity, and Graphic Violence.

To truly appreciate films like this, you just have to approach them at the right angle! The film is crap...yes. The CGI is laughable, the plot is none-existent and (aside from David Hewlett who makes the most of what he has) the acting is atrocious. But this film (along with other such gems as Charlies Angels: Full Throttle and...well...pretty much any film with Arnold Swachenegger or William Shatner in it), is just one of those SO EXCRUCIATINGLY AWFUL movies that go through the boundaries of crap into hysterically funny. I guarantee that if you watch this film with a few other guys or gals who are in the mood for it, you will find it as funny as I did.How can any film with these lines be bad?: "That snake is big. Big is good.", "God I hate you son." and "Guys like that, they get what they want. their own casinos, a hot biscuit like her, and now he's getting the first shot at killing our snake. F**ck that!" I rest my case.

Don't waste your time on this sad bunch of characters (not to imply there is characterization)unless you enjoy watching giant puppet snakes. You can tell this is definitely a TV movie with laughable script, bad acting, no thrills, and the special effects department on holiday. There's a sorry attempt at a romance with less than zero chemistry between the leads. Just a shame the snakes didn't eat everyone at the endBeware - director obviously tried to spice it up with unnecessary nudity and slightly amusing oral sex scene with one the snakes.You'll get more action playing snakes and ladders.

Okay, people, obviously you don't have any sense of humor ! This film is a PARODIES !! You're acting like people who go to see Scary Movie and compares it to a Kaurismaki film !! Oh, please, there is no filmmaker who do that kind of gag in a serious film, come on ! Maybe you don't think it's funny, OK, I understand that, but please don't take it on the first degree ! (I'm sorry, it's a french idiom, I don't know if it exists in English...) Anyways, even if it's hudge, even if you could take it as a teen movie, even if there is some bad jokes in it, and even if the visual effects are poor...this is a very distracting film.Another insane film for David Hewlett...I love this guy !