20 Recent Horror Movies That Made ONE Big Mistake
12. The PG-13 Rating - Anaconda
The recent meta-reboot of Anaconda was admittedly one of the more unexpected box office successes of last year, though reviews were generally wildly mixed, many feeling that the film didn't quite hit its wild potential.
One common complaint was the film's PG-13 content rating, ensuring that audiences in the market for a gory creature feature were left with something that felt rather sanitised.
Even accepting that the original 1997 Anaconda was itself a PG-13 affair, considering this reboot was made primarily for the folk who grew up with that film and are now themselves around middle-age, it would've been appropriate for the new movie to be a gore-soaked, profanity-laden riot in the vein of Tropic Thunder.
It's not a bad film by any means, just lacking the bonkers pizazz you'd expect from such an off-the-wall concept, as though Sony stripped a good measure of its personality away to make something more accessible to the masses.