Cocaine Bear needs to ease up just a little bit, maybe.
about a coked-up bruin gallivanting through the woods, mauling unsuspecting humans, and doing lines off its victims’ dismembered limbs. Simply by spelling out and then relentlessly over-delivering on its ridiculous premise for an hour and a half,immediately sets itself apart from many of the more comedic “cerebral” horrors and thrillers the film draws inspiration from.
For cops like Bob and Reba , the coke’s a sign that known kingpin Syd is making big moves, while people like Syd’s son Eddie and Eddie’s friend Daveed see it as a mess they’re going to have to clean up. Between her new boyfriend and keeping an eye on her daughter, quintessential ’80s mom Sari is too busy to pay all that much attention to whatever nonsense is going on in the forest.
wants you chuckling at its absurdity as you’re watching a hulking, thoroughly unconvincing CGI bear trip balls and eat people.framing and from one of its more memorable deaths — that the movie’s trying to tap into a very similar kind of brilliant but slightly batshit energy that made Renny Harlin’ssuch an instant classic.
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