Cocaine Bear Review — Cocaine Bear (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Elizabeth Banks, written by Jimmy Warden and starring Keri Russell, Ray Liotta, Aiden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Isiah Whitlock Jr., Brooklynn Prince, Christian Convery, Margo Martindale, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kristofer Hivju, Hannah Hoekstra, Ayoola Smart, Aaron Holliday, J.B. Moore, Leo Hanna, Kahyun [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Cocaine Bear (2023): Elizabeth Banks Directs a Fast Paced Crowd-Pleaser with Plenty of Stylish Action...
Continue reading: Film Review: Cocaine Bear (2023): Elizabeth Banks Directs a Fast Paced Crowd-Pleaser with Plenty of Stylish Action...
- 2/25/2023
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
This article contains spoilers for "Cocaine Bear."
Nobody can claim that "Cocaine Bear," the action-horror-comedy hybrid featuring a very drugged-out bear, is taking itself too seriously. It's about as predictable as you might expect, but also totally unpredictable at the same time. It harkens back to the killer animal films of the '70s and '80s, in both good and bad ways. Regardless, if you're looking to see what happens when a bear eats possibly hundreds of pounds of cocaine, there's an answer for that!
However, "Cocaine Bear" doesn't just show what happens when a bear eats cocaine. It also shows us brief glimpses of what life has become for our motley cast of characters that somehow survived the bear's rampage. So yes, do try and stick through the credits to see a couple of amusing epilogues. Just don't expect anything major once they end. Needless to say, if...
Nobody can claim that "Cocaine Bear," the action-horror-comedy hybrid featuring a very drugged-out bear, is taking itself too seriously. It's about as predictable as you might expect, but also totally unpredictable at the same time. It harkens back to the killer animal films of the '70s and '80s, in both good and bad ways. Regardless, if you're looking to see what happens when a bear eats possibly hundreds of pounds of cocaine, there's an answer for that!
However, "Cocaine Bear" doesn't just show what happens when a bear eats cocaine. It also shows us brief glimpses of what life has become for our motley cast of characters that somehow survived the bear's rampage. So yes, do try and stick through the credits to see a couple of amusing epilogues. Just don't expect anything major once they end. Needless to say, if...
- 2/24/2023
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
Cocaine Bear is exactly what you want, need, and expect it to be. Director Elizabeth Banks assembled a cast willing to just go for it, and together they’ve delivered one of the funniest, most insane R-rated horror / comedy / thriller / crime caper / buddy comedy / cautionary tale / coming-of-age films in history. Of course, it helps that there are very few, if any, films that have dipped their toes into that many genres all at once and been successful while doing so.
Cocaine Bear’s very loosely inspired by a true story. Fact: In 1985, a 175-pound black bear, now lovingly referred to as Pablo Escobear, did ingest cocaine that had fallen from a plane. Fact: The bricks of cocaine tumbled into the bear’s path after drug smuggler Andrew Thornton (played by The Americans’ Matthew Rhys in a brief but memorable cameo) tossed them from a plane and then followed them out.
Cocaine Bear’s very loosely inspired by a true story. Fact: In 1985, a 175-pound black bear, now lovingly referred to as Pablo Escobear, did ingest cocaine that had fallen from a plane. Fact: The bricks of cocaine tumbled into the bear’s path after drug smuggler Andrew Thornton (played by The Americans’ Matthew Rhys in a brief but memorable cameo) tossed them from a plane and then followed them out.
- 2/24/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The 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 and devouring whatever human comes onto his path. It is all not to be taken seriously, but fortunately director Elizabeth Banks 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,...
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,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
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