Cocaine Bear is a beary good movie if you want to see coked up animals kill people. And what a relief! Hollywood has kept shoving low quality drivel at us - Velma, She-Hulk, the entire Star Wars sequel trilogy. They finally got the message. People want to see fun movies where drug addicted bears kill people. Lots of people.
You may wonder if I am exaggerating. Can Cocaine Bear be that good? Yes, my friend, it is good. First, Cocaine Bear is a solid old school horror-comedy film. The director, Elizabeth Banks, knows that you need a good monster that kills people in fun and yucky ways. Also, Banks doesn't reinvent the wheel. The winning recipe is to introduce a bunch of characters and let the audience guess which ones make it to the end. Bravo for quality story telling.
Second, Cocaine Bear has politics but not the modern SJW version. Rather, it's a critique of 80s Reaganite America and its drug war paranoia. Just watching old anti-drug commercials from the 80s is oddly funny. There is also a sly message about police corruption.
Some folks see a "one and done" situation here but I see great possibilities. For our Northern neighbors, we could make Cocaine Moose. In another sequel, a drug smuggler in Miami accidentally creates Cocaine Shark, a prelude to the Sharknado cross-over feature. We're only limited by our imaginations.
Bottom line: Grab the popcorn and get ready fur an unbearably fun film!
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