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Anaconda is the kind of self-referential franchise film that's (almost) silly enough to be entertaining, but for the most part, it simply coasts on the charm of its talented cast. This "spiritual sequel" (as one of the main characters calls it in the film) to the 1997 original is the work of Tom Gormican, who previously directed the clever meta-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, in which Nicolas Cage played a fictionalized version of himself as the washed-up movie star Nick Cage. Director: Tom Gormican Writers: Tom Gormican, Kevin Etten, Hans Bauer Stars: Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Steve Zahn I assume Sony was hoping Gormican and co-writer Kevin Etten would pull off a similar magic trick, but as is often the case with these things, the law of diminishing returns prevails. Not that the new Anaconda is unwatchable, far from it. For the most part, it plods along at a slow pace, until it finally picks up speed when a cast member from Anaconda (1997) shows up to injec...