With the holiday movie season pretty much being all about Avatar. So, for laughs, Sony Pictures decided to lean into that by cutting a Saturday Night Live-style trailer for its upcoming Anaconda movie starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd that spoofed James Cameron\u2019s Papyrus blue font and gave us our first look at the return of Ice Cube.<\/p>\n
While the final Anaconda trailer billed itself as \u201cthe comedy event of the season,\u201d we\u2019ve got to be honest, it did not deliver a good array of jokes that screamed, \u201cI\u2019ve gotta get a ticket to see this stat.\u201d Granted, the SNL bit about Avatar was clever enough when you ignore that the sketch is eight years old,<\/a> but all the supercuts to funny bits in the movie this time around were a bit on the stale side. Still, in the spirit of this being a legacy sequel heavy on the meta-ness of its existence, having us endure all the lukewarm bits of actors screaming at a CGI snake, and all to a shadowy silhouette reveal of Ice Cube as if it were a big reveal we didn\u2019t get scooped on earlier this week,<\/a> was a valiant effort to push the scale down further on how self-aware and silly this film promises to be.<\/p>\n The main thrust of this Anaconda movie sees a group of friends who grew up with the 1997 film endeavoring to recreate it. They say as much in the previous trailer<\/a>, with Black belting out, \u201cLet\u2019s reboot Anaconda.\u201d Somewhere down the line, their indie-style film goes screwy when their beat-by-beat recreation of the movie lands them in hot, snake-infested waters of their own. Thankfully, Ice Cube shows up at some point to help them out by handing Rudd a gun. We\u2019ll have to wait and see if he puts it to good use. Joining Rudd and Black in this Tom Gormican-directed film are Thandiwe Newton, Steve Zahn, Daniela Melchior, and Selton Mello.<\/p>\n As mentioned up top, the \u201cIce Cube will return in Anaconda\u201d of it all would\u2019ve landed as a politely eyebrow-raising surprise had the actor not spilled the beans in a People<\/a> magazine interview a couple days ago.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s cool to do a cameo, to kind of make it go full circle in a way,\u201d Ice Cube told People. \u201cWhen they asked me to do it, when I knew the kind of movie they were doing, I jumped at it. I\u2019m like, \u2018This is something different. It\u2019s cool.\u2019 People probably get a kick out of me popping on the screen.\u201d<\/p>\n Considering the last time we saw Ice Cube<\/a> was in that atrocious War of the Worlds Prime Video movie<\/a>, we\u2019ll take what we can get on the road to rebuilding his image as an actor trying to be funny on purpose.<\/p>\n Anaconda opens in theaters on Christmas.<\/p>\n Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the holiday movie season pretty much being all about Avatar. So, for laughs, Sony Pictures decided to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[21368,93,20666,61,60,21369,270,21370],"class_list":{"0":"post-198683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-anaconda","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ice-cube","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jack-black","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-paul-rudd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}