Boa vs. Python is a film that follows the grand tradition of combining two separate monsters from different franchises, and engaging them in combat against each other. Watching it, I was instantly reminded of King Kong vs. Godzilla, in which one creature was pitted against the other in order to stop its rampage (as is the case for most "vs." films). And like that film, Boa vs. Python pulls no punches in its B movie glory. Bad dialogue dubbing, cheesy special effects, ludicrous plot points. It’s all here, and you can’t help but to find some fun it. That’s why B movies have their own level of enticement. Things get underway when a big-game hunting group imports a giant python, loses it, and then the military have to rely on a scientifically controlled giant boa to stop the carnage the python unleashes.

When giant snake movies became mildly popular following the success of Anaconda, Python, starring Freddy himself, Robert Englund, entered the straight-to-video scene in 2000 (followed by Python II two years later), and Boa, starring Lois & Clark’s Dean Cain appeared in 2002 on the video market. Now with this crossover film, you get far less recognizable faces for sake of CGI (although the virtual backgrounds and snakes look brutally worse than the recent Anaconda sequel).

The fun in the film is in how laughable the situation gets, but Boa vs. Python is still a considerably agonizing film to indulge in. I was amazed though at how much of a financial spectacle the production was, with the use of locations and props. I even admired the dedication of some of the actors who play the film more serious than expected, and give half decent performances

The video quality is quite good in some shots, but in others it’s a little shady (I particularly hate the shots involving the location text, which appears to have been inserted with an amateur editing program). Like I said earlier, the sound effects audio isn’t that bad, but the dialogue doesn’t match up to the actors in several instances, so it’s hard for me to praise it.

There’s nothing in the bonus features worth mentioning, because yet again all we have is a trailer gallery (but you can view the original trailer for Boa, and the Anaconda sequel). I exhaustingly wonder why studios continue to pump out such bad continuing material on straight-to-video franchise films. I find it hard to believe that Python or Boa could be considerable enough success stories to warrant a film that pit the two against each other, but hey, it looks like I would be wrong.

I am a huge fan of "vs." films. I find them the best sort of escapable fun, when the film gives you a dream match-up. I would recommend Freddy vs. Jason, Alien vs. Predator, and even King Kong vs. Godzilla, before I would recommend this wasteful piece of video cheese.