'Cocaine Bear' knows exactly what it is: an unapologetic good time.
Layla HalabianThe best moviegoing experiences often feel like fever dreams — delirious, vivid, and something you can laugh at even in the midst of the terror. So far, 2023 has been good to us, as a culture, in very few ways, save for these types of films; it was a mere seven weeks ago thatis here to join her, complete with enlarged pupils and a white powder-caked nose.
is rounded out by amusing comedic performances, a soundtrack of perfectly placed '80s bangers, and genuinely freaky jump scares with gory ends. Were there plot holes, like, say, why the titular character's appetite was ravenous despite consuming several pounds of cocaine? Sure, but if there's any film to practice the art of suspending disbelief, it'sCocaine Bear
SJ: And the children! I leaned over to Alyssa and I was like, “I can’t watch a child get mauled.” It was gory, but it was also… tasteful? Like no children died for this movie. Kelly Reed: We need a follow-up with the guy in the yellow shirt. How did he get out? Did he make it to New York?SN: The biggest laugh of the whole movie is when he has his arms up and he just tilts his hip.is going to become a camp classic. I do not see how it will not be something that kids watch stoned in college forever. We're doing a bad job at our [review] if it doesn’t become that.
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