The Anaconda franchise returns to the big screen with meta reboot Anaconda on Christmas Day, and the film has received its official rating from the MPA this week.
Anaconda (2025) starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black is officially rated PG-13 for “violence/action, strong language, some drug use and suggestive references.”
While the new movie looks to dial up the comedy, the original Anaconda was actually also rated PG-13 back in 1997. That film received its PG-13 rating for “intense adventure violence, and for brief language and sensuality,” which isn’t that much different from the new movie.
In this year’s Anaconda, slithering into theaters on December 25, Rudd and Black play best friends who attempt to remake Anaconda and end up in their own real-life horror movie.
Watch the official trailer for the Anaconda reboot below.
Thandiwe Newton (“Westworld”), Steve Zahn (“Silo,” Joy Ride), Selton Mello, Ione Skye (Say Anything, Haunt), and Daniela Melchior (The Suicide Squad) also star.
In Anaconda‘s big screen return, “Best friends Doug and Griff have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favorite movie: the cinematic classic, Anaconda. But things get real when an actual giant anaconda appears, turning their comically chaotic movie set into a deadly situation. The movie they’re dying to make? It might just get them killed.”
Tom Gormican (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) is scripting and directing.
The original film was directed by Luis Llosa, and it featured an ensemble cast including Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson and Danny Trejo.
In the 1997 movie, a film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who forces them along on his quest to capture the world’s largest – and deadliest – snake.
The movie ended up spawning three sequels between 2004 and 2009, and the Anaconda franchise more recently battled the Lake Placid franchise in a 2015 crossover.
