‘Cocaine Bear’ Review: Audiences Will Get High Watching Drugged-Up 500-Pound Beast Eat People In Elizabeth Banks’ Darkly Amusing Horror Comedy
deadline.comThe title says it all. Just like Snakes On A Plane was about just that, the new horror comedy Cocaine Bear is about a 500 pound bear on a jihad after coming upon a ton of cocaine dropped into rural Georgia on a drug run gone wrong.
The bear ingests the coke and soon you have a beast roaring out of control devouring whatever human comes on to his path. It is all not to be taken seriously, but fortunately director Elizabeth Banks (Charlie’s Angels, Pitch Perfect 2) is smart enough to give audiences hungry for a ‘Jaws’ in the wilderness, some nice scares mixed in with the laughs plus a bit more bang for their buck than just a marketable title.
With a game ensemble playing none-too-bright potential meals the intelligence level of many on display makes The Dukes Of Hazzard look like Schindler’s List.
I was rooting for the bear, and actually had a good ‘ol time doing just that in this movie that is set in 1985 and is a loving throwback to many of the movies made in that era.
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