REVIEW:
Cocaine Bear is a fun movie. It’s an R rated comedy that goes hard at the violence and blood and guts. Not what you would expect from director Elizabeth Banks, who helmed some of the light-hearted, female-oriented Pitch Perfect movies. But this movie isn’t exactly smart or creative either. Instead, it goes the B movie approach, giving us something that is light on character, light on story, but big on laughs and extreme circumstances. The story is about a bear in the wild that comes across a ton of cocaine from a dealer who dropped it out of a plane. Now the bear is on the loose and ready to destroy anything in its path. Bring in some shady characters like drug dealers who are looking for the stash and the cops who are after them, as well as wholesome characters like a mom and her children, and you have the recipe for some wild fun. It’s not a great movie, but as a guilty pleasure flick, this one works.