What makes it different from others?

Really Surprised!

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The Lake Placid franchise meets the Anaconda franchise and let's be honest they are both pretty poor so no high expectations here. However, having just sat through this on TV, I actually thought it wasn't too bad - for a bad movie. Girls in bikinis, plenty of corny one-liners, cheap & silly CGI (though I have seen MUCH worse), Eastern Europe standing in for the US, Yancy Butler as the gravel voiced but sexy Sheriff and horror legend Robert Englund. Yes, it's a million miles from his Elm St stuff but I've seen him in worse than this. As Syfy movies go it's not too bad & if you want 90 minutes of simple, silly entertainment then put your brain in neutral & give it a look.

Lake Placid vs Anaconda clicked for me. I have lost count of the number of other lake placid & anaconda sequels I've seen but they were all so average probably because they took themselves seriously, despite their mediocre effects or script. But this one doesn't. There's lot of humor(intentionally or not) either between the characters especially between the sheriff Reba and her deputy Ferguson or in the gore(between the anaconda, crocs & the humans) which works in the movie's favor. The effects are surprisingly better at least when compared to other Syfy horror works I've seen. The story or script of course, is unbelievable which is expected as this is just for our entertainment. So there is some nudity, gore(but not too much), Robert Englund back again with his maniacal laughter, humor, some bad performances(which makes it even more funny), some dumb, pain in the a** characters that get knocked off early...everything that you need in a 90-min horror flick while you munch on your chips & soda :)

This ScFy Channel creature feature is directed by A.B. Stone and can claim crocs on the dock, snakes in the lake, babes on the shore and blood galore. Scientists Beach (Stephen Billingham) and Jim (Robert Englund) Bickerman are determined to crossbreed a giant crocodile with a freakish large anaconda. Jim now suffers minor deformities from his last encounter with Lake Placid crocs. Transportation problems will end up causing the escape of hungry creatures and the mother-of-showdowns between a giant anaconda and larger-than-large crocodile. But of course, before the big battle various size chompers will feed on pretty girls and terrorize a whole town. Throaty-voiced Reba (Yancey Butler) is still around the lake area and this time with more authority.Horror, violence, disturbing images and sick humor abound. This just has to be your cup of tea or very quickly you'll be slapped in the face with stupidity! Miss Butler seems to always lead in the acting department. But Englund does have some pretty funny scenes. Rounding out the cast: Corin Nemec, Skye Lourie, Annabel Wright, Georgina Phillips, Oliver Walker, Ali Eagle and Nigel Barber.

The first Lake Placid movie was very enjoyable, if with its flaws. The second was awful, with a waste of its big names. The third was an improvement, but still mediocre at best. The fourth, strangely called The Final Chapter, had some big flaws but was much better than expected and the best since the original. This latest entry, Lake Placid vs. Anaconda for me was the worst since the second movie.Lake Placid vs. Anaconda is saved from total doom by the good performances of Yancy Butler, Robert Englund and Corin Nemec. Butler is very authoritative and 'kicks ass' (a term I very rarely use) in her very feisty role, and Englund has indeed some funny moments and is suitably ruthless and nutty as well. Nemec is appropriately hard-nosed and is entertainingly sarcastic. The Bulgarian scenery is reasonably attractive too.What does stop the scenery from making more of an impression is that Lake Placid vs. Anaconda does have a rather drab look, the photography is not expansive enough and is a mixture of static to rushed and dizzying. The special effects, as expected, are rather dire, looking cartoony, artificial-looking (like large bits of rubber) , inconsistently sized and incomplete, especially the anaconda. The creatures, both anaconda and crocodile on top of looking cheap, are not threatening at all and somewhat under-utilised with nowhere near enough of the anaconda.(there's also not enough of them together either). The music is not very well placed and is overbearing and not eerie enough, sometimes inappropriately jaunty.Here, the dialogue is full of stilted gibberish, and a lot of the humour is too cheesy and sometimes appears at the wrong time, cheapened even further by some horrendous dubbing that is far too obvious. The story is a confused mess of ideas and doesn't seem to know whether it's trying to be comedy or horror. The comedy, apart from some amusing moments, is very badly written, reeks of cheese and appears in inappropriate places sometimes, and this is coming from somebody who knew not to take things seriously. The horror moments completely lack tension or suspense, is not used enough and often too brief, further disadvantaged by sloppy editing and the cheap-looking creature. The characters are basically every cliché and stereotype in the book, and with a lack of charm, empathy and apart from Butler's and Englund's are annoying and bland in personality.Much of the acting, apart from Butler, Englund and Nemec, ranges from stiff, melodramatic to non-existent. Oliver Walker's comic relief annoyed rather than amused at the end of the day. The whole movie felt very under-directed as well. Overall, pretty poor and the worst of the Lake Placid series since the second movie, though not as bad. 3/10 Bethany Cox