Her and this actor who play a real estate salesman ham it up and overact so amazingly in their scenes that it was way past the point of being as amusing as they thought they were being. The scene with Jenny McCarthy made me realize why she doesn't get much acting work.
The only positive thing I can think of to say is at least this movie didn't try to pretend to be anything other than it was, and had a couple slightly amusing parts-well, maybe one. I guess it wasn't very hungry (though it does eat a shower curtain at one point) or just cranky. The CGI python doesn't seem very interested in eating people, either, just mangling them or spitting venom on them. Van Dien has this mustache, which I think was supposed to make him look older or smarter, but it just looks bad. Casper Van Dien and Robert Englund play two scientists or snake experts or something who both try to upstage the other. Anaconda had a pretty simple plot, and I liked it-it was trashy but at least fun. Not that this would be a problem, if the movie were decent. A bad CGI python terrorizes a small town. Actually I think both, the 10 different directors spent all their money on drugs, then handed the camera to some random kid on the street because they were too stoned to focus. I haven't looked at the credits too closely, but the movie is so wildly uneven it looks like about 10 different directors and editors slapped it together, none of them ever co-ordinating at all with the other, and that half of them were just maybe random people-no, children-they stopped on the street and handed a movie camera and asked them if they felt like taking over for a couple days, and the other half went out and spent all their paycheck on drugs. Well I got those two, I just forgot that it should be dumb, lightweight, but also entertaining. I think I rented this because I was looking for something dumb and lightweight. I saw this less than 24 hours ago but my mind is already blocking most of it out. Then by the tiime Jenny McCarthy showed up, I realized it was just really, really bad.
For maybe the first 5 minutes of this movie-until they got to the "se7en" ripoff credit sequence (by now, when you see a movie with this type of credit sequence, that's a sign right there that the movie is going to go downhill), which is intercut inexplicably with shots of a guy mountain biking-I thought it might qualify as a guilty pleasure.