Product Details

• Actors: David Hewlett, Jaime Bergman, Kirk B.R. Woller, Adamo Palladino, Angel Boris Reed
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: December 7, 2004
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00008YOLT
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #429,682 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ROCKIN REPTILES, October 25, 2004

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boa vs. Python (DVD)

Hey, for a straight to video release, this one ain't so bad. The obvious CGI effects are pretty darned good; the snakes looked part of the action most of the time. In this one, a musclebound big game hunter sneaks a huge python (where he got it, no one bothers to tell us) into the country in order to provide some wealthy businessmen a rare hunting opportunity. Of course, the snake escapes and heads for the sewer system of Philadelphia (of all places). FBI Honcho (played glumly if adequately by Kirk B. R. Woller) contacts a pretty biologist (Playboy's Jaime Bergman) who has been working with dolphins to use her "implants" on a giant boa being harvested by scholarly and almost hunky David Hewlett. They use these implants to track the python through the boa's eyes. Mysteriously enough, the darned machine doesn't work very well (there goes government spending again), so the good guys don't know that the bad guys (the hunters) are also on the prowl for the snake(s). Adam Kendrick as Broddick, the head nasty, chews up both the scenery and his cigars, and throws his considerable weight around, alas to no avail.
Of all the snake movies, and we've had tons, this one isn't the best, but it's certainly not the worst (see SSSSSS...). Anyway, fans of this type of movie shouldn't be too disappointed.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Slithering Snakes and Bouncing Bunnies ..., October 1, 2005

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Fiendish Fictions "Author / Photographer" (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boa vs. Python (DVD)

B Movies are meant to be "guilty pleasure" movies ... watched to satisfy those urges, instincts and desires that we're not always ready to admit to openly in public. Featuring various combinations of babe lust, wonton carnage, savage (or not so savage) brutality, far out locations, techno-junky-ism, monsters, weapon fetishes, space ships, mutants, armored vehicles and more babe lust, they come in Horror, Monster, Sci-Fi, Girly and many other sub-varieties. My reviews of such movies take this intentional "guilty pleasure" aspect into account and are written for people who enjoy either watching or making fun of this sort of entertainment at least some of the time. SOME B movies are so well made they really aren't B movies at all, and when I feel I've found one, I'll let you know.

Boa Vs. Python

Featuring David Hewlett (Stargate Atlantis), Jaime Bergman (Playboy) and Angel Boris (Playboy), Boa Vs. Python gets three stars from me as a Monster vs. Monster B movie (Story = 2, Production Values = 3.5, Babe Quality = 4, Exposure = 2 ... and no, my final score of 3 isn't a mathematical average). For me, this movie had the feel of a computer game where the players are pitted against two giant snakes who also happen to be pitted against each other. Bergman and Boris are both very easy on the eyes and will appeal to anyone who enjoys watching Playboy Bunnies troop around video game like sets toting weapons and pseudo-scientific gear ... as long as you're not too disappointed by only brief nudity and a lack of overtly sexual content. As a bunny who's been in several films, Boris's acting is certainly suitable for B movies and won't disappoint folks who are used to the genre. When it comes to B movies, Boris "gets it" and seems to be having fun jiggling around the woods in a lace lined, low cut top, camouflage BDU pants and a gun. Bergman seemed a little less practiced, but more than makes up for it with very appealing looks and a bust line that bounces nicely when she runs in a snug, low cut top. (Remember folks, we're talking guilty pleasures and eye candy here, not Academy Award performances.) David Hewlett has been putting in fan pleasing performances on Stargate Atlantis for a couple of seasons now and definitely added some quality to the overall acting effort of this film in his role as a snake specialist. His presence in the film definitely makes easier the extra level of "suspension of disbelief" required for B movies. It's a genre he'd probably do well to spend more time in.

All in all, this was an enjoyable film for those of us who can enjoy B movies with a "not taking it too seriously" attitude. It lacked the graphic violence, increased skin exposure, sexual content and top notch effects to get more stars on the B-movie scale, but I definitely enjoyed it.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fairly average B movie, August 21, 2004

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Bud Bundy "B movie lover" (MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boa vs. Python (DVD)

This is about a big game hunter who arranges to have a giant boa (or maybe it's the python) flown in so that he and his fellow hunters can have some fun going after it. But it escapes and gets down into the sewer system. Some government people just happen to have an equally huge python (or maybe it's the boa), so naturaly they decide to release the second snake to hunt down the first. Sounds like a fine idea to me.

Fairly average B movie. I've only seen the edited for TV version, but it looked like the unedited version might have some T&A. The characters are average, acting was average (for a B movie), the action was pretty slow. The snakes are so obviously CGI that watching them fight is more like a video game than a movie. Really no suspense, and when the snakes attack, since they're put in afterwards via computer animation, the actors don't really seem to react to them. That pretty much kills any excitement. The movie doesn't take itself very seriously, and it is somewhat funny in parts. There's a pretty girl in it, which is the only reason I sat through the whole thing.