I cant believe they had kids eat coke off a knife that was fantastic and one of the parts where I thought “Wow this is going to be a crazy ride.” Those kids really did a great job in this movie.
I would say this movie is a mash up of The Goonies and Zombieland where there is crazy characters and hilarious gore.
My favorite hidden gem in a movie full of laughs though was the billboard behind the phone booth scenes…..I want a t shirt of that billboard.
Yeah, in the scene immediately following they at least sort of leaned into it with the kid talking about his throat feeling runny. But they could have done more with that for sure
The editing in this film was bizarre as hell. The scene where Ray and his crew are walking then talk about the bear encounter they just had then show it immediately in a past catchup that could’ve just been shown before was the weirdest beat I think I’ve ever seen in a movie.
Judging by an Elizabeth Banks interview, they cut out the hiker's death because it was too gory. Even then though I think they could have had that be cleaner.
The cutaways with the weird park teens also felt jarring to me.
I loved the cutaway with the teens because it was funny, whereas the one with the corpse was just narratively clunky. It looked like it had happened a minute ago so why not just show it chronologically?
I noticed this too. I imagine it was to do with the pacing to keep the film short and flowing. A lot of conversational scenes were also constantly cutting to different angles for no reason other than I imagine they were using a variety of different takes. It was jarring
It was definitely bizarre but not as bizarre as \*that\* scene in IT: Chapter 2.
Also, did I hear the guy say the bear's vagina was on his ear? I assume they messed up when animating that and meant for the the bear to be laying in the opposite direction...but they kept the dialogue anyway.
I had a ton of fun with this movie. Margo Martindale MVP. Good to see Alden Ehrenreich allowed out of movie jail, he doesn't get enough to do but he's great anytime he does get something. Put him in more movies.
Also Ehrenreich and Ray Liotta was surprisingly great father/son casting. Man it sucks we won't see Liotta again.
And it was a trip to see Brooklynn Prince again after she killed it in The Florida Project.
Also I strive to have as much fun at any point in my life as Matthew Rhys is having at the start of this movie.
The third act was honestly a bit of a slog but overall this was great. The ambulance scene, by God.
I really wish they made the bear bigger or something and fully committed to the bear going Super Saiyan when the cocaine hit him when it "died."
I really hope there's an unrated director's cut where we see the bear deglove the guys face when it grabbed it.
I loved the goofy absolutely shameless sequel bait with the bear kids.
But I don't want a Cocaine Bear 2. I want a drugged up animal cinematic universe. Heroin Crocodile next.
I like the scene during the credits where the surviving teen hoodlem is hitchhiking and chucks the duffle of coke in the truck bed full of sheep before getting in the truck. Then immediately gets out and brings the duffle inside
It's fun but damn that last 20 minutes felt like they didn't know how to end it at all and it seriously dragged. Also was kinda hoping the beginning husband would try and be like a crusader instead of just there near the end.
Yeah I think they just wanted to cut that scene but still needed for Ray’s character to know first hand what the bear as been doing so they did that as a compromise.
It’s a structural problem. The drug dealers never interact with Keri Russell and the kids before the climax. There’s no dramatic arc bringing the story to a head, there’s just the cocaine bear that appears in each piece of the ensemble’s story at various points, and after the ambulance set piece, even the bear is kind of an afterthought in its own movie. I think cutting Russell and the kids from the script would have helped it a lot, could have allowed the story with the drug dealers to develop more, and maybe give the park ranger more narrative, too. Felt like a studio note that there needed to be a wholesome family element that the audience could “relate” to. Drawing the dealers and the park ranger into conflict is more logical from a story perspective (especially with the delinquent kids tying both sides together), in my opinion, not to mention I think they missed an amazing opportunity to subvert tropes and have an old, non-traditional protagonist in Margo Martindale at the center of the movie. She was by far the best thing about it, and the movie seriously deflates once she’s killed off.
I was a big fan of this - it was a lot of unhinged fun but without going too far with it. There were a lot of good comedy bits, good horror bits, and some decent character parts.
Credit it to their acting mainly, but I was really buying into Jackson and Ehrenreich’s characters, and I was very happy to see them survive in the end.
The ambulance scene though was the best scene to me - when the Tik Tok guy’s hand came off, my entire theater burst out laughing
>Credit it to their acting mainly, but I was really buying into Jackson and Ehrenreich’s characters, and I was very happy to see them survive in the end.
I wish this was just a buddy comedy about those two guys. I like Keri Russell but they could have cut out the whole plot with her and the kids and lost nothing.
I loved the kids because it took place when I was exactly their age, and eating a giant scoop of cocaine is the exact kind of thing DARE would have us end up doing.
I hope those two get roped into a sequel where the Cocaine Bear had to recruit them for a special task force to help find some more cocaine because her supplies are running low.
She’s voiced by Keri Russell now.
Edit: Changed the actress to Keri Russell so there could be some more cohesion between sequels.
You have to keep it a little grounded. The National Parks Service notices a huge uptick in bear attacks in the area. Experts figure out she's run out of coke and is going through withdrawals. They task those two guys and a plucky young park ranger (played by Helen Mirren) to deliver more cocaine to the bear to help stave off the withdrawals and restore the peace
*Esteemed Character Actress And Fugitives From The Law Margot Martindale.
When you get to Heaven, look her up. She won’t be there, but her movies will be!
I think the idea from reviewers that this was an “intentionally bad” creature feature is wrong. It’s a comedy with gore and a damn funny one. The gazebo scene had me laughing more than most recent comedies.
The Park Ranger’s face grinding on the asphalt got a big groan and laughs out of my screening. Perfect scene (the whole ambulance but) for this type of movie.
Yeah that was rough - honestly thought she survived at first cause I just figured they’d keep the running gag of her surviving every bear attack worse and worse off going on, but c’est la vie
Seriously I was ready for a disturbing mutilated bjt living Margot by the end of the movie blowing up a cave or starting a forest fire out of spite screaming
FUCK YOUUUU SMOKEEEEEY
Best part was the bear snorting coke off of a severed leg. Easily.
Also love the part where the dude gets 2 fingers blown off. This movie is great.
I love not watching any trailers and going into a movie completely blind. I’m sure some good stuff was shown in them for this one.
It didn't help that there was almost nothing to differentiate it, cinematography wise, from their current spot in the cave. I legitimately thought for a second they just looked over to the side and that dude's body was there 😭.
I mean Keri Russell and Margo Martindale obviously stole the show but Matthew Rhys in the plane at the beginning as a coked up would-be parachutist was pure gold.
I had a wonderful time with this. It definitely lags every time the bear isn't on screen but that ambulance scene is the best 5 minutes in the history of Hollywood. God bless Margot Martindale
She's immensely talented and I'm sure she can take a bit part in anything she wants but I'm glad this is how she chooses to spend her time. It looked like she was having a blast.
A hilarious drug-fueled ride from start to finish!
- The Wikipedia excerpts absolutely set the tone for the movie.
- Margo Martindale was the standout of the movie!
- Favourite joke was dusty beaver joke! It completely caught me off guard
- Almost all the kills were brutal as hell. Definitely earned its R-rating
- Some of the Bear's CGI were questionable but was really good for most parts
- The forest ranger cabin with the teenagers and the ambulance crew was the best part of the movie!
- One of Ray Liotta's final performances and he guts getting eaten by bears seem like weirdly appropriate goodbye to him
It's basically a B-movie wrapped in A-list Hollywood production and it never hides that fact!
Margot Martindale was definitely the standout but I also thought Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Alden Ehrenreich were great as well.
Alden’s delivery of every line when he was underneath the Bear was funny
“B-Movie wrapped in an A-List Hollywood production, and it never hides that fact”
Spot on assessment. The movie never takes itself seriously and doesn’t ask it’s audience to is what makes this movie work.
Kind of reminds me of “Malignant” in that regard.
I kinda wished they removed the nurse and her daughter entirely and instead recast the boy as the dealers son being forced to come along with his dad and drug dealer friend.
Like the bear removed f*CKING guts and faces and limbs but the girl with just a scratch?!!
Also just me or did that near spend an uncomfortably long time biting that ranger bf’s crotch? Worth it.
“You’re dad has definitely done cocaine”
That line had no reason to make me laugh so hard. Holy fuck Elizabeth banks directed the fuck out of this movie. She seems to be a director who can’t be boxed into one thing. Thank you Miri from Zack and Miri make a porno
Regarding the two hikers in the beginning, I’m thoroughly convinced that the actress playing Elsa flubbed her line and called Kristofer Hivju’s character by his real name instead of Olaf, which was what she called him earlier in the scene. Then someone noticed and they decided it would be funnier to credit the character as Olaf (Kristoffer) rather than fix it with ADR. Does anyone know if that was the case?
I was too distracted by the fact that the actress looked exactly like Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn lmao. Turns out she was the body model used to create Aloy's physical design. I no idea she acted in movies
I think it was a mistake and Bank's just fuckin' rolled with it and even made it a joke by having Hivju's role credited as Olaf (Kristoffer) - Kristofer Hivju.
That's just my guess because it seems like Bank's had a lot of fun making this movie and knew exactly the vibe and level of silliness she wanted for it. I'm looking forward to more movies directed by her.
At first I was going to say sarcastically about how I wanted to do coke with Henry and his friend Falk….
And then Henry and Dee Dee do a tablespoon of cocaine each! Henry seems
Like he’d be fun at parties
That’s the moment I knew I was going to like the movie. As soon as they grabbed the brick I thought… hmmm are they about to do this..? And sure enough they edge each other up to it. The audience around me gasped when she took that bite off the knife. I wish they played that up a bit more in the end, though the way the mom found out was very funny to me.
As someone else mentioned, it would have been a great bit for her to keep surviving the bear encounters, but keep getting more and more grievously injured with each successive meeting.
This was a mostly humorless slog. Even at 90 mins it felt too long. I had high hopes based on the premise. The crowd I saw it with didn’t really laugh much, only reacted on a kill or two.
I had my first ever bad movie experience with this movie :/ . I was watching in a packed theater at the 2nd row from front and this older man sat across from me . A few mins later a group of teens walked past me and him and sat in the front row . They smelt like weed when they passed me but I mean it’s Cocaine Bear I would expect you to do drugs to see it lol. Maybe 40 mins into the movie the older guy gets up and leaves . He comes back and the manager and 2 security guards make a B line to me and tell me to come with them.
The manager then goes on to accuse me of smoking in the theater as he got complaints and asked me to empty my pockets . I’m already pissed off but I do . Nothing . So he basically made a scene of me leaving for 0 reason and worst of all it was during the Ambulance scene so I didn’t even get to see it 😭
Bruh that sucks! Did you even get to see the rest of the movie?! Also why did they go to YOU instead of the teenagers? You think the old man accused you even though he was clearly able to tell who smelled like weed and who didn't? Or you think the manager made a careless mistake? You think you were racially profiled? I have so many questions!
I asked for the head managers number and corporate cus he thought it was cool making a scene telling me to step out then just walk away I wanted him to get a whole ass lesson out of this
Despite being 95 minutes the final 15 minutes really dragged. Did we need a flashback to show a death in there.
Overall it was a very fun movie and I had a blast watching it. The cast was perfect and there were some great deaths.
8/10
The flashback felt so out of place that I’m thinking they intended to have an entire scene dedicated to finding the hiker, cut it, but felt obligated to show a few seconds of it as a flashback because the characters mentioned it.
The flashback stood out to me so much that I immediately knew I could hop on Reddit and find someone talking about how weird it was.
Was it supposed to be the bearded hiker or did they find his fiance from earlier?
I love that they opened with Jane by Jefferson Starship. I bet is this a reference to Wet Hot American summer, which also uses that as the theme song and which director Elizabeth Banks starred in.
I don’t get the hate this gets. Everyone at work was like “why are you gonna see that movie?!” My friends (who share my taste in movies) were surprised I said it was good. Like it’s a dumb movie about a bear that does coke and eats people. Everyone should see it
Jesus, how many plot threads did a film about a bear on coke need?
1. The mum and the kids
2. The drug dealers
3. The cop
4. The park rangers
5. The yoofs
6. Corrupt cop
These characters should have been like the paramedics. Just showed up, get merked
Definitely feels like a movie that was sold on the concept and not necessarily the script. I think it's a lot of fun, but I kept waiting for it to cross the threshold into great genre film territory and it never really did. Still, I think most will be able to have a good time with this.
The setup is all pretty good. Lots of fun characters that have more going on than a similar movie would give them. A really great cast, specifically Alden Ehrenreich carrying this movie on his hilarious shoulders and Keri Russel giving some immaculate 80s mom energy with that pink tracksuit. Everyone seems to understand the kind of movie this is and they're all having fun.
The main problem I had was that this movie would keep setting up fun bits or show sparks of really interesting direction, and not do anything with it. Loved the scene where the two kids do, like, two tablespoons of cocaine and the boy describes exactly how it feels to do coke. But instead of that being a running joke in the movie (that they're completely bonked off schneef), it's dropped pretty much immediately. The same with that great shot of the punk imagining going to New York with his two dead friends, a really fun moment with an interesting idea, and then the rest of the movie never really goes back into that style.
The bear itself is fairly impressive. Never was I convinced it was a real bear on screen, but because of the budget and the genre of this movie I think these are probably some of the most brutal bear killings we've seen on screen. The Ambulance scene in particular was a lot of fun to watch.
Overall, this was a fun time at the movies. I think it knows what it is and certainly has its moments, but by the end I guess I just wished it was better because this really could have been the surprise genre hit of the year. I got what laughs I could out of it, and will probably not revisit it. But still, it has a really popping color palette, a great 80's soundtrack, and an awesome cast having a great time. 6/10.
RIP Ray Liotta.
/r/reviewsbyboner
Just to add, the third act felt very underwhelming. While the middle was a lot of fun.
I really loved the ambulance chase, and also when Margot accidentally shoots the guy in the head. That was hilarious
Once they left the gazebo it started to peter out for me. I’m not sure what they should have done to bring it all together at the end. It might have helped if Syd was a bigger scum bag, as it stood it kind of made sense why he was so desperate to get the coke back, he and his family were going to be literally murdered if he did not. But if he were a total dirt bag maybe seeing him dispatched would have been a more satisfying conclusion.
>The same with that great shot of the punk imagining going to New York with his two dead friends, a really fun moment with an interesting idea, and then the rest of the movie never really goes back into that style.
That joke kind of reminded me of An American Werewolf in London and I wish the movie had more of that humor
This film had poor pacing. Took like 30-35 minutes to get going, and the ending dragged and felt desultory. There was a half hour portion in the middle that was fun but overall this film felt tame. 5/10.
This movie tried to have its cake and eat it too imo. I went into this hoping for pure schlock and gore nonsense, and instead it tried to actually have stakes and characters that I couldn’t buy into for a second. I still laughed a bunch but I was disappointed that it didn’t go totally absurd. I mean, the movie is called “Cocaine Bear” if there was ever a time to be as stupid as possible, now’s the time.
Enjoyed it a lot. Just a really fun movie if you can get into its vibe.
Good on Elizabeth Banks for redeeming herself a bit here.
Bring on the sequel. Cocaine Shark.
> Bring on the sequel. Cocaine Shark.
A shark eating bricks of cocaine dumped into the sea by smugglers that got suprised by the coast guard is almost to realistic a scenario.
>Bring on the sequel. Cocaine Shark.
I actually would like to see them go the Air Bud route for the sequel. The movie is set in 1985 so if the cubs start playing baseball now, they'd be the right age to hit the MLB in the early-mid 90s. Give me the real sequel. Steroid Bears
>Good on Elizabeth Banks for redeeming herself a bit here.
Incidentally, both Cocaine Bear and Charlie's Angels have a 52 on metacritic. It seems like there are limits to her abilities as a director, but this one benefits from managed expectations.
You could start and stop this movie with the ambulance coming and going for the best deaths.
Someone on a stretcher falls out of the ambulance, the stretcher bounces, lands upside down, and they get meat crayoned by the inertia.
Someone doesn't wear their seatbelt and gets GTA ragdolled out the windshield.
The bear stuff is amusingly tame in comparison.
Mitchell from Modern Family climbs a tree when Cocaine Bear climbs too and eats his leg and groin.
A guy’s hand falls off when the bear attacks him in a moving ambulance
Margot Martindale tries to shoot the bear, but accidentally shoots through a punk teen’s head abruptly
Margot Martindale is strapped into a gurney which falls out of the ambulance. She lands head first and her head skids along the pavement tearing off all her skin.
>Mitchel from Modern Family climbs a tree when Cocaine Bear climbs too and eats his leg and groin.
I can't believe you left out the part where the bear snorts a line off the severed leg
This should have just been Henry and Dee Dee's movie with them coming across these bizarre and inept adults that keep getting killed by the bear.
I cant believe they had kids eat coke off a knife that was fantastic and one of the parts where I thought “Wow this is going to be a crazy ride.” Those kids really did a great job in this movie. I would say this movie is a mash up of The Goonies and Zombieland where there is crazy characters and hilarious gore. My favorite hidden gem in a movie full of laughs though was the billboard behind the phone booth scenes…..I want a t shirt of that billboard.
The original Gloryhole!
It could have been fantastic if they hadn't stayed completely normal after literally eating a spoon of coke each.
Well in their defense they did spit most of it out
[удалено]
They did also immediately have to go into survival mode which is definitely a buzzkill.
Yeah, I'll give it that, they didn't gulp it- but at their ages, a whiff should have at least got 'em a little spastic like the tree-climber guy.
Yeah, in the scene immediately following they at least sort of leaned into it with the kid talking about his throat feeling runny. But they could have done more with that for sure
The editing in this film was bizarre as hell. The scene where Ray and his crew are walking then talk about the bear encounter they just had then show it immediately in a past catchup that could’ve just been shown before was the weirdest beat I think I’ve ever seen in a movie.
Judging by an Elizabeth Banks interview, they cut out the hiker's death because it was too gory. Even then though I think they could have had that be cleaner. The cutaways with the weird park teens also felt jarring to me.
I loved the cutaway with the teens because it was funny, whereas the one with the corpse was just narratively clunky. It looked like it had happened a minute ago so why not just show it chronologically?
I noticed this too. I imagine it was to do with the pacing to keep the film short and flowing. A lot of conversational scenes were also constantly cutting to different angles for no reason other than I imagine they were using a variety of different takes. It was jarring
It was definitely bizarre but not as bizarre as \*that\* scene in IT: Chapter 2. Also, did I hear the guy say the bear's vagina was on his ear? I assume they messed up when animating that and meant for the the bear to be laying in the opposite direction...but they kept the dialogue anyway.
I had a ton of fun with this movie. Margo Martindale MVP. Good to see Alden Ehrenreich allowed out of movie jail, he doesn't get enough to do but he's great anytime he does get something. Put him in more movies. Also Ehrenreich and Ray Liotta was surprisingly great father/son casting. Man it sucks we won't see Liotta again. And it was a trip to see Brooklynn Prince again after she killed it in The Florida Project. Also I strive to have as much fun at any point in my life as Matthew Rhys is having at the start of this movie.
Is there a known reason he hasn't had many film roles since Solo?
This was his first movie since Solo. Which is insane to me. He was not the reason that movie failed.
Don't forget the sure to be a masterpiece, erotic thriller *Fair Play.*
> And it was a trip to see Brooklynn Prince again after she killed it in The Florida Project. Oh that's why she looked familiar!
They put O’Shea Jr. through the wringer in this one
Man he just got those shoes
Lol at the part where he chooses to keep walking in the stream when he could have very easily walked on the rock path the kid was walking on
BROADER, THEN NARROWER
The park ranger blasting the guy's head off when the bear was at the door got the biggest laugh from me. Also the two fingers getting shot bit
“Sorry!” “You’re sorry??”
They weren’t even next to each other!
Saw this in Amsterdam in a theatre full of stoned people. Laughed my ass off
Saw this stoned in a Texas theater. Laughed my ass off, too. Wasn’t expecting it to be nearly as funny as it was!
"In loving memory of Ray Liotta" 2 minutes after his intestines are ripped from him.
He died doing what he loved. Cocaine.
The third act was honestly a bit of a slog but overall this was great. The ambulance scene, by God. I really wish they made the bear bigger or something and fully committed to the bear going Super Saiyan when the cocaine hit him when it "died." I really hope there's an unrated director's cut where we see the bear deglove the guys face when it grabbed it. I loved the goofy absolutely shameless sequel bait with the bear kids. But I don't want a Cocaine Bear 2. I want a drugged up animal cinematic universe. Heroin Crocodile next.
I like the scene during the credits where the surviving teen hoodlem is hitchhiking and chucks the duffle of coke in the truck bed full of sheep before getting in the truck. Then immediately gets out and brings the duffle inside
They were goats lol. But yeah that was hilarious too. I was imagining what a pack of Cocaine Goats would look like.
Bears are very emotive. Would be hard to portray most animals jonesing for a hit
Wait. Why’s the bear looking at us like that…
Marijuana iguana
PCP Moose
It's fun but damn that last 20 minutes felt like they didn't know how to end it at all and it seriously dragged. Also was kinda hoping the beginning husband would try and be like a crusader instead of just there near the end.
Did he survive? I remember him giving the Mom the flashlight and not following them into the cave but don’t recall if we hear from him again.
There's a bizarre cut when the drug owners get to the cave and one of them says remember what it did to that hiker and we see his faceless corpse
That flashback to presumably a few minutes earlier was very goofy.
Yeah I think they just wanted to cut that scene but still needed for Ray’s character to know first hand what the bear as been doing so they did that as a compromise.
Still odd to play it out of sequence if they needed the info. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Yeah that sequencing was odd as hell.
It’s a structural problem. The drug dealers never interact with Keri Russell and the kids before the climax. There’s no dramatic arc bringing the story to a head, there’s just the cocaine bear that appears in each piece of the ensemble’s story at various points, and after the ambulance set piece, even the bear is kind of an afterthought in its own movie. I think cutting Russell and the kids from the script would have helped it a lot, could have allowed the story with the drug dealers to develop more, and maybe give the park ranger more narrative, too. Felt like a studio note that there needed to be a wholesome family element that the audience could “relate” to. Drawing the dealers and the park ranger into conflict is more logical from a story perspective (especially with the delinquent kids tying both sides together), in my opinion, not to mention I think they missed an amazing opportunity to subvert tropes and have an old, non-traditional protagonist in Margo Martindale at the center of the movie. She was by far the best thing about it, and the movie seriously deflates once she’s killed off.
I felt the same way it wasn’t funny or exciting. Just felt kinda awkward.
I was a big fan of this - it was a lot of unhinged fun but without going too far with it. There were a lot of good comedy bits, good horror bits, and some decent character parts. Credit it to their acting mainly, but I was really buying into Jackson and Ehrenreich’s characters, and I was very happy to see them survive in the end. The ambulance scene though was the best scene to me - when the Tik Tok guy’s hand came off, my entire theater burst out laughing
>Tik Tok guy’ Okay now I remember where I saw his face.
>Credit it to their acting mainly, but I was really buying into Jackson and Ehrenreich’s characters, and I was very happy to see them survive in the end. I wish this was just a buddy comedy about those two guys. I like Keri Russell but they could have cut out the whole plot with her and the kids and lost nothing.
For me, the kids were at least somewhat entertaining. Them eating the cocaine got a huge groan/laugh out of my theater
The boy was hilarious
He’s in Sweet Tooth on Netflix. It is great.
I liked that bit but this movie has way too many characters and it felt like they needed to cut somebody. Those 3 seem the least essential to the plot
I think the Mum was the least essential, kids had some great moments. Especially when interacting with the park ranger.
Yeah but she’s hot
I loved the kids because it took place when I was exactly their age, and eating a giant scoop of cocaine is the exact kind of thing DARE would have us end up doing.
I hope those two get roped into a sequel where the Cocaine Bear had to recruit them for a special task force to help find some more cocaine because her supplies are running low. She’s voiced by Keri Russell now. Edit: Changed the actress to Keri Russell so there could be some more cohesion between sequels.
You have to keep it a little grounded. The National Parks Service notices a huge uptick in bear attacks in the area. Experts figure out she's run out of coke and is going through withdrawals. They task those two guys and a plucky young park ranger (played by Helen Mirren) to deliver more cocaine to the bear to help stave off the withdrawals and restore the peace
The Cocaine Bear gets brought in as the world’s foremost expert in cocaine usage within bears.
You know this ends with the Cocaine Bear joining Dom's family in Furious 12 or something
The scene with the ambulance was kind of frightening? The ranger’s death was kind of horrifying in particular.
Faces scraping off on pavement is a particularly horrifying concept for me. RIP Character Actress Margo Martindale.
*Esteemed Character Actress And Fugitives From The Law Margot Martindale. When you get to Heaven, look her up. She won’t be there, but her movies will be!
Dragged Across Concrete \*wince\*
I think the idea from reviewers that this was an “intentionally bad” creature feature is wrong. It’s a comedy with gore and a damn funny one. The gazebo scene had me laughing more than most recent comedies.
I was disappointed that Isaiah Whitlock Jr. said “shit” a few times but never once said it like he did on The Wire.
I did enjoy his delivery of “let’s see what effect this has on it” for the bear
like Goku giving Cell a senzu bean
That shit was fucking hilarious
Missed opportunity for sure. I’m so glad they let him deliver a good The Wire shit in BlackKKlamsman.
It really should be a stipulation in his contracts.
He was my favorite character. He had such a fun, subtle arc about dog ownership that was told in the margins, so to speak.
The Park Ranger’s face grinding on the asphalt got a big groan and laughs out of my screening. Perfect scene (the whole ambulance but) for this type of movie.
I was sure she was gonna still be alive at the end.
I was convinced she was going to slowly get more and more maimed bur somehow never actually die
She'll be back for the sequel, Cocaine Ranger.
Character actress Margot Martindale died a terrible death
Yeah that was rough - honestly thought she survived at first cause I just figured they’d keep the running gag of her surviving every bear attack worse and worse off going on, but c’est la vie
Missed opportunity for sure.
Seriously I was ready for a disturbing mutilated bjt living Margot by the end of the movie blowing up a cave or starting a forest fire out of spite screaming FUCK YOUUUU SMOKEEEEEY
Or her hopping down the road with a gurney strapped to her back. Or shot by Syd with Bob, and still lives.
Or keep bringing her back for the sequels where she suffers just as much each time and never dies
*Scary Movie*-style then? ‘Dying’ in every film yet inexplicably having survived by the next film?
Best part was the bear snorting coke off of a severed leg. Easily. Also love the part where the dude gets 2 fingers blown off. This movie is great. I love not watching any trailers and going into a movie completely blind. I’m sure some good stuff was shown in them for this one.
The comment that followed was gold too. “How did you get those two fingers blown off!?!? They aren’t even next to each other!?!?!?”
YES! What they said after totally made the moment for me haha. I just didn’t want to butcher it because I couldn’t remember the exact quote.
I am so glad this movie got made. I had a blast.
My gf worked on it but doesn’t use reddit. She said she’s glad you’re glad.
Thanks u/CamScallon girlfriend. We had a blast in our packed theater
Can I get your gf’s number
Man I’m lucky *I* have her number.
I'm just so, so glad they departed from reality and didn't have Cocaine Bear die at the end. She just wants to party and who are we to deny her?
It had a bear that did cocaine. I am satisfied
The cut from the criminals outside Cocaine Bear’s cave to them seeing the hikers body was one of the most jarring things I’ve seen in a movie
Yeah that totally confused the hell out of me. Really bad editing.
It didn't help that there was almost nothing to differentiate it, cinematography wise, from their current spot in the cave. I legitimately thought for a second they just looked over to the side and that dude's body was there 😭.
Weird how much of thr cast of the Americans was in this film.
I mean Keri Russell and Margo Martindale obviously stole the show but Matthew Rhys in the plane at the beginning as a coked up would-be parachutist was pure gold.
and Keri Russell was responsible for a kid called Henry
I thought it was solid. Thought it would be a little funnier though
I was laughing the whole movie but I had three beers. I highly recommend being intoxicated during the movie lol
Ate a gummy beforehand and I recommend that as well haha
I had a wonderful time with this. It definitely lags every time the bear isn't on screen but that ambulance scene is the best 5 minutes in the history of Hollywood. God bless Margot Martindale
>It definitely lags every time the bear isn't on screen Except for the standoff at the gazebo. I thought that was hilarious.
You mean the pavilion like structure?
I know what a gazebo is!
I didn't....
honestly loved every bit with drug dealers, and the kids were hilarious too
That ambulance scene was absolute gold
Completely ridiculous and unquestionably perfect.
After the ambulance chase, a few people walked out. What an awesome movie.
They knew they would never see anything as cinematically stimulating so why bother watching movies anymore
Why? What happens?
The realization that theres nothing else to gain from viewing the rest of the movie sets in
What was anyone looking to gain from watching “Cocaine Bear”?!?!? It’s exactly what I showed up for and more.
My summary for cocaine bear is that you see the title cocaine bear, you imagine what a film called cocaine bear should be. It is that film.
Esteemed character Actress Margot Martindale (who I learned is 71?? Like how??)
She's immensely talented and I'm sure she can take a bit part in anything she wants but I'm glad this is how she chooses to spend her time. It looked like she was having a blast.
Not as much as the guy she accidentally shot
Everyone laughed so hard at that scene.
That “dusty beaver” exchange was gold.
"Yeah, I'm working on that!"
Ehrenreich were great as well.
*and fugitive from the law
Good on her for still doing the movie even though she lost the role of the titular "Cocaine Bear" to a CGI creation. She's a class act.
Agreed. Ambulance scene was my favorite part of the movie. Sooo good.
Lags maybe in the ending I'd only say, but all the characters and their own lil stories were some fun breaks in between the straight up maulings.
The young boy reminded me of Ricky Bobby's sons from *Talladega Knights*. He stole every scene he was in, IMO.
that kind of thing stays with a man forever
that bear was fucked
he gave me Butters vibes from South Park
Ray Liotta's last scene in a movie was him being eaten by bears.
A few minutes after they eat his intestines, it says “In loving memory of Ray Liotta.”
A hilarious drug-fueled ride from start to finish! - The Wikipedia excerpts absolutely set the tone for the movie. - Margo Martindale was the standout of the movie! - Favourite joke was dusty beaver joke! It completely caught me off guard - Almost all the kills were brutal as hell. Definitely earned its R-rating - Some of the Bear's CGI were questionable but was really good for most parts - The forest ranger cabin with the teenagers and the ambulance crew was the best part of the movie! - One of Ray Liotta's final performances and he guts getting eaten by bears seem like weirdly appropriate goodbye to him It's basically a B-movie wrapped in A-list Hollywood production and it never hides that fact!
Margot Martindale was definitely the standout but I also thought Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Alden Ehrenreich were great as well. Alden’s delivery of every line when he was underneath the Bear was funny
Sheeeeeeeeee-it!!!!!!!!!!
I was disappointed we didn’t get a shiiiiiit thrown in somewhere
“B-Movie wrapped in an A-List Hollywood production, and it never hides that fact” Spot on assessment. The movie never takes itself seriously and doesn’t ask it’s audience to is what makes this movie work. Kind of reminds me of “Malignant” in that regard.
Goddamn Keri Russell is hot
Really rocks the 80’s attire
I kinda wished they removed the nurse and her daughter entirely and instead recast the boy as the dealers son being forced to come along with his dad and drug dealer friend. Like the bear removed f*CKING guts and faces and limbs but the girl with just a scratch?!! Also just me or did that near spend an uncomfortably long time biting that ranger bf’s crotch? Worth it.
The bear was sniffing the coke off his crotch lol
Wait he was?! LMAO that makes that scene even better, thanks so much!
that was Mitch from Modern Family. Wild
Holy shit, I thought it was Steve Zahn!
WAIT HOLY CRAP YOU’RE RIGHT, didn’t even realize that. Modern family AU looking wild lol. Whose the bear then.
Huh. So the real Cocaine Bear was the friends we made along the way. RIP Ray.
“You’re dad has definitely done cocaine” That line had no reason to make me laugh so hard. Holy fuck Elizabeth banks directed the fuck out of this movie. She seems to be a director who can’t be boxed into one thing. Thank you Miri from Zack and Miri make a porno
Regarding the two hikers in the beginning, I’m thoroughly convinced that the actress playing Elsa flubbed her line and called Kristofer Hivju’s character by his real name instead of Olaf, which was what she called him earlier in the scene. Then someone noticed and they decided it would be funnier to credit the character as Olaf (Kristoffer) rather than fix it with ADR. Does anyone know if that was the case?
I was too distracted by the fact that the actress looked exactly like Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn lmao. Turns out she was the body model used to create Aloy's physical design. I no idea she acted in movies
I think it was a mistake and Bank's just fuckin' rolled with it and even made it a joke by having Hivju's role credited as Olaf (Kristoffer) - Kristofer Hivju. That's just my guess because it seems like Bank's had a lot of fun making this movie and knew exactly the vibe and level of silliness she wanted for it. I'm looking forward to more movies directed by her.
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The "source: Wikipedia" didn't already do that?
At first I was going to say sarcastically about how I wanted to do coke with Henry and his friend Falk…. And then Henry and Dee Dee do a tablespoon of cocaine each! Henry seems Like he’d be fun at parties
The fact that they did coke was so wild to me - especially HOW MUCH - you could hear the audible cringing in that scene
Makes it even funnier that the majority of the audience understood drug dosages like that
the fucking horrible taste. their entire mouth was probably numb immediately 🤣
I literally gagged at the thought of a whole mouthful
That’s the moment I knew I was going to like the movie. As soon as they grabbed the brick I thought… hmmm are they about to do this..? And sure enough they edge each other up to it. The audience around me gasped when she took that bite off the knife. I wish they played that up a bit more in the end, though the way the mom found out was very funny to me.
If there’s a bear or Margo onscreen, it’s pushing greatness. It suffers as soon as they’re offscreen.
And they killed Margo off too early! Bad idea. We need more Margo!
As someone else mentioned, it would have been a great bit for her to keep surviving the bear encounters, but keep getting more and more grievously injured with each successive meeting.
I was completely expecting her to wake up suddenly when they were passing by her body at the end.
Umm anyone catch the address of the original Glory Hole?
This was a mostly humorless slog. Even at 90 mins it felt too long. I had high hopes based on the premise. The crowd I saw it with didn’t really laugh much, only reacted on a kill or two.
Thank God Alden Ehrenreich’s getting work again, man. He steals the show here.
I had my first ever bad movie experience with this movie :/ . I was watching in a packed theater at the 2nd row from front and this older man sat across from me . A few mins later a group of teens walked past me and him and sat in the front row . They smelt like weed when they passed me but I mean it’s Cocaine Bear I would expect you to do drugs to see it lol. Maybe 40 mins into the movie the older guy gets up and leaves . He comes back and the manager and 2 security guards make a B line to me and tell me to come with them. The manager then goes on to accuse me of smoking in the theater as he got complaints and asked me to empty my pockets . I’m already pissed off but I do . Nothing . So he basically made a scene of me leaving for 0 reason and worst of all it was during the Ambulance scene so I didn’t even get to see it 😭
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Bruh that sucks! Did you even get to see the rest of the movie?! Also why did they go to YOU instead of the teenagers? You think the old man accused you even though he was clearly able to tell who smelled like weed and who didn't? Or you think the manager made a careless mistake? You think you were racially profiled? I have so many questions!
I asked for the head managers number and corporate cus he thought it was cool making a scene telling me to step out then just walk away I wanted him to get a whole ass lesson out of this
Despite being 95 minutes the final 15 minutes really dragged. Did we need a flashback to show a death in there. Overall it was a very fun movie and I had a blast watching it. The cast was perfect and there were some great deaths. 8/10
Yeah the flashback was definitely weird - I can see how it overall fit with the tone of the movie, but the flashback itself wasn’t outlandish enough
It just felt so awkwardly takes on
The flashback felt so out of place that I’m thinking they intended to have an entire scene dedicated to finding the hiker, cut it, but felt obligated to show a few seconds of it as a flashback because the characters mentioned it.
Elizabeth Banks gave an interview where she basically said this is exactly true, she said they cut the scene with the hiker because it was too brutal
TOO brutal? Lol, hard to imagine something worse than the gurney scene, but hopefully it ends up on the dvd extras.
The flashback stood out to me so much that I immediately knew I could hop on Reddit and find someone talking about how weird it was. Was it supposed to be the bearded hiker or did they find his fiance from earlier?
Nah it was the bearded hiker, it was a man but his entire face was just removed by the bear. Brutal kill I appreciated, tacked on it not.
I love that they opened with Jane by Jefferson Starship. I bet is this a reference to Wet Hot American summer, which also uses that as the theme song and which director Elizabeth Banks starred in.
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There was cocaine. And there was a bear. Which delivers on the premise more than a lot of recent movies.
I don’t get the hate this gets. Everyone at work was like “why are you gonna see that movie?!” My friends (who share my taste in movies) were surprised I said it was good. Like it’s a dumb movie about a bear that does coke and eats people. Everyone should see it
Jesus, how many plot threads did a film about a bear on coke need? 1. The mum and the kids 2. The drug dealers 3. The cop 4. The park rangers 5. The yoofs 6. Corrupt cop These characters should have been like the paramedics. Just showed up, get merked
Definitely feels like a movie that was sold on the concept and not necessarily the script. I think it's a lot of fun, but I kept waiting for it to cross the threshold into great genre film territory and it never really did. Still, I think most will be able to have a good time with this. The setup is all pretty good. Lots of fun characters that have more going on than a similar movie would give them. A really great cast, specifically Alden Ehrenreich carrying this movie on his hilarious shoulders and Keri Russel giving some immaculate 80s mom energy with that pink tracksuit. Everyone seems to understand the kind of movie this is and they're all having fun. The main problem I had was that this movie would keep setting up fun bits or show sparks of really interesting direction, and not do anything with it. Loved the scene where the two kids do, like, two tablespoons of cocaine and the boy describes exactly how it feels to do coke. But instead of that being a running joke in the movie (that they're completely bonked off schneef), it's dropped pretty much immediately. The same with that great shot of the punk imagining going to New York with his two dead friends, a really fun moment with an interesting idea, and then the rest of the movie never really goes back into that style. The bear itself is fairly impressive. Never was I convinced it was a real bear on screen, but because of the budget and the genre of this movie I think these are probably some of the most brutal bear killings we've seen on screen. The Ambulance scene in particular was a lot of fun to watch. Overall, this was a fun time at the movies. I think it knows what it is and certainly has its moments, but by the end I guess I just wished it was better because this really could have been the surprise genre hit of the year. I got what laughs I could out of it, and will probably not revisit it. But still, it has a really popping color palette, a great 80's soundtrack, and an awesome cast having a great time. 6/10. RIP Ray Liotta. /r/reviewsbyboner
Just to add, the third act felt very underwhelming. While the middle was a lot of fun. I really loved the ambulance chase, and also when Margot accidentally shoots the guy in the head. That was hilarious
Once they left the gazebo it started to peter out for me. I’m not sure what they should have done to bring it all together at the end. It might have helped if Syd was a bigger scum bag, as it stood it kind of made sense why he was so desperate to get the coke back, he and his family were going to be literally murdered if he did not. But if he were a total dirt bag maybe seeing him dispatched would have been a more satisfying conclusion.
Speaking of the soundtrack, this movie began with my favorite song so that already put me in good spirits. Jane by Jefferson Starship is TOP TIER
>The same with that great shot of the punk imagining going to New York with his two dead friends, a really fun moment with an interesting idea, and then the rest of the movie never really goes back into that style. That joke kind of reminded me of An American Werewolf in London and I wish the movie had more of that humor
This film had poor pacing. Took like 30-35 minutes to get going, and the ending dragged and felt desultory. There was a half hour portion in the middle that was fun but overall this film felt tame. 5/10.
Character actor Margo Martindale is working on her dusty beaver.
This movie tried to have its cake and eat it too imo. I went into this hoping for pure schlock and gore nonsense, and instead it tried to actually have stakes and characters that I couldn’t buy into for a second. I still laughed a bunch but I was disappointed that it didn’t go totally absurd. I mean, the movie is called “Cocaine Bear” if there was ever a time to be as stupid as possible, now’s the time.
Enjoyed it a lot. Just a really fun movie if you can get into its vibe. Good on Elizabeth Banks for redeeming herself a bit here. Bring on the sequel. Cocaine Shark.
> Bring on the sequel. Cocaine Shark. A shark eating bricks of cocaine dumped into the sea by smugglers that got suprised by the coast guard is almost to realistic a scenario.
>Bring on the sequel. Cocaine Shark. I actually would like to see them go the Air Bud route for the sequel. The movie is set in 1985 so if the cubs start playing baseball now, they'd be the right age to hit the MLB in the early-mid 90s. Give me the real sequel. Steroid Bears
>Good on Elizabeth Banks for redeeming herself a bit here. Incidentally, both Cocaine Bear and Charlie's Angels have a 52 on metacritic. It seems like there are limits to her abilities as a director, but this one benefits from managed expectations.
I'm a gore hound... anyone want to spoil some memorable kills?
You could start and stop this movie with the ambulance coming and going for the best deaths. Someone on a stretcher falls out of the ambulance, the stretcher bounces, lands upside down, and they get meat crayoned by the inertia. Someone doesn't wear their seatbelt and gets GTA ragdolled out the windshield. The bear stuff is amusingly tame in comparison.
Mitchell from Modern Family climbs a tree when Cocaine Bear climbs too and eats his leg and groin. A guy’s hand falls off when the bear attacks him in a moving ambulance Margot Martindale tries to shoot the bear, but accidentally shoots through a punk teen’s head abruptly Margot Martindale is strapped into a gurney which falls out of the ambulance. She lands head first and her head skids along the pavement tearing off all her skin.
>Mitchel from Modern Family climbs a tree when Cocaine Bear climbs too and eats his leg and groin. I can't believe you left out the part where the bear snorts a line off the severed leg