Credit where it’s due: Sony’s new Anaconda is an innovative bit of IP laundering. Before long, one of these assailants is scooped up by a giant anaconda snake, in a manner that feels half-way between a jump scare reveal and matter-of-fact presentation. Right from the get-go, the presentation feels half-baked and noncommittal, setting the tone for what’s to come. The contrast lessens, the depth of field increases, and the performances take on that studio comedy tone, where every actor is trying to out-improvise the other. It’s Anaconda, a movie that thinks it’s making fun of everything Hollywood does wrong, but really, it’s just exposing its own flaws ad nauseam.