YMMV / Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

• Contested Sequel: To say fans were split on whether this movie was good or not would be an understatement (See Even Better Sequel and Sequelitis below).
• Complete Monster: Dr. Jack Byron is a ruthless Glory Hound. Seeking to become rich and famous by exploiting the life-extending Blood Orchid, he intentionally risks the team's lives by taking a quicker, but more dangerous route, and hiding their means of escape. When found out, he uses a Stone Spider to leave his partner Gordon paralyzed as he's Eaten Alive by one of the anacondas, using the distraction to abandon the rest of the party to die in the jungle. When they catch up, he forces Sam to risk her life to retrieve the Blood Orchid over the mating ball of deadly serpents. Despite being only a human, Jack proves far worse than the anacondas.
• Even Better Sequel: There's a good many people who consider it better than the original, in part for actually attempting to explain why the snakes are doing what they do other than just 'it's what they do.' If nothing else, it's generally considered the only good sequel of the lot.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Sam Taking a Level in Badass by decapitating one of the anacondas with a machete. In some theaters, the audience spontaneously cheered at that scene.
  • Bill killing the crocodile.
  • Bill throwing a knife through the head of an anaconda that's constricting Cole.
• Moral Event Horizon: Dr. Jack Byron establishes himself as a proper villain when he paralyzes Gordon with a venomous spider (which leads to Gordon getting eaten while immobilized), and steals the boats so the others are stranded to fend for themselves. When he runs into them again, he holds three hostages to make the fourth crawl dangerously close to the anaconda mating ball (aka dozens of males around an even bigger female) to get the orchid. So it's Laser-Guided Karma when he gets paralyzed by that same spider and falls right into the ball himself.
• Sequelitis: In contrast to the Even Better Sequel treatment the film tends to get, there is a very small minority that considers this film to be worse than the original, citing the weak acting and terrible special effects.
• Serial Numbers Filed Off: The first sequel to a horror creature feature with a plural variation on the previous film's title, involving a scout team of protagonists entering a hostile environment teeming with multiple specimens of a dangerous species (the dominant member of which is a single giant female), having been conned into their mission by a sociopathic Corrupt Corporate Executive looking to profit from its outcome at any cost. Sound familiar? All we're missing is the left-behind orphaned child.

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