Anaconda (2025)

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Not suitable under 13; parental guidance to 14 (violence, coarse language, scary scenes)

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This topic contains:

  • overall comments and recommendations
  • details of classification and consumer advice lines for Anaconda (2025)
  • a review of Anaconda (2025) completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 30 December 2025.

Overall comments and recommendations

Children under 13 Not suitable due to violence, coarse language and scary scenes.
Children aged 13–14 Parental guidance recommended due to violence, coarse language and scary scenes.
Children aged 15 and over Ok for this age group.

About the movie

This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.

Name of movie: Anaconda (2025)
Classification: M
Consumer advice lines: Violence and coarse language
Length: 100 minutes

ACCM review

This review of the movie contains the following information:

A synopsis of the story

Griff (Paul Rudd) is a struggling actor, unable to land anything more than the occasional background role on TV. Returning to his hometown for the birthday of his childhood friend Doug (Jack Black), Griff reunites with Doug and their friends Claire (Thandiwe Newton) and Kenny (Steve Zahn). During the visit, Griff reveals that he has miraculously acquired the film rights to the 1997 cult classic Anaconda.

Seizing the opportunity, Griff convinces the group to travel to the Amazon rainforest to produce a successor to the original film. Flying to Brazil, they arrange a boat and a supposedly tamed anaconda, confident they are ready to begin shooting. However, their production quickly spirals out of control. Illegal gold miners, government agents, and rival film crews complicate the shoot, while a far more dangerous threat emerges in the form of a massive wild anaconda. As the dangers escalate, can the friends complete their film and make it home alive?

Themesinfo

Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.

Drug and alcohol dependence; Animal cruelty; Crime.

Use of violenceinfo

Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.

Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.

There is some violence in this movie, including:

  • A man is dragged underwater by an anaconda.
  • An anaconda lunges over Griff as he sleeps.
  • Griff throws an anaconda off the boat while filming a movie scene. The anaconda is chopped up by the boat motor and killed.
  • A man is attacked by an anaconda while looking through binoculars.
  • A van is shot at by men on motorcycles. A person inside the van returns fire.
  • A man is knocked out with a gun.
  • A woman calls out to be rescued before being eaten by an anaconda.
  • The group of friends are held at gunpoint.
  • Griff shoots a government agent.
  • An anaconda partially engulfs Doug, its jaws closing over him up to the hips.
  • Doug is tied up as bait, with a boar strapped to his back and a squirrel lodged in his mouth. He unexpectedly wakes up alive and runs away, with the boar still strapped to his back.
  • An anaconda is shot with a flare gun.
  • The friends attempt to kill the anaconda with pyrotechnics but are unsuccessful. Griff eventually kills the snake, blowing it up by shooting some oil barrels nearby.

Material that may scare or disturb children

Under fiveinfo

Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:

  • The appearance of the snakes are likely to scare younger children, due to their frightening size and violent nature.

Aged five to eightinfo

Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes and scary visual images, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged five to eight, including the following:

  • Doug is bitten by a spider, sending the group into panic.

Aged eight to thirteeninfo

Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged eight to thirteen, including the following:

  • Audiences may feel uneasy watching an anaconda positioned close to Griff’s face during filming.

Thirteen and overinfo

Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.

  • Nothing further noted.

Product placement

  • None noted.

Sexual references

There are some sexual references in this movie, including:

  • A woman mentions her ex is sleeping with his dental hygienist.

Nudity and sexual activity

There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:

  • Two teenagers lean in for a kiss.
  • Griff and Claire lean in for a kiss during the movie filming. The two later marry.
  • Kenny pees on Doug after he is bitten by a spider.

Use of substances

There is some use of substances in this movie, including:

  • Beer
  • Unnamed pills
  • Kenny declares that he is ‘Buffalo sober’, limiting himself to beer, wine, and some light liquors. He continues to struggle with substance abuse throughout the film.

Coarse language

There is some coarse language in this movie, including:

  • Shit
  • Goddamn
  • Bitch
  • Fuck
  • Ass
  • A plethora of coarse language is bleeped out in a homemade film made by the friends in their teenage years.

In a nutshell

Anaconda is a meta action-comedy in which a group of friends attempt to film a sequel to the original 1997 Anaconda, with the movie itself acting as that very sequel (albeit the sixth instalment in the Anaconda film series). Due to the violence, coarse language, and scary scenes, the film is best suited for audiences aged 15 and over, and parental guidance is recommended for ages 13 to 14.

The main messages from this movie are the importance of perseverance and following your dreams. The main characters are shown as dissatisfied with the lives they have settled into, emphasising how unfulfilled they feel when they stop chasing their passions. Through their journey, the movie encourages audiences to take risks, embrace their passions, and suggests that true success and happiness often come from daring to follow one’s ambitions.

Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:

  • Teamwork
  • Perseverance
  • Resourcefulness
  • Ambition.

This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children attitudes and behaviours, and their real-life consequences, such as:

  • Venturing into dangerous environments without proper preparation.