![]() There’s very little about this movie that’s genuinely transgressive, but I was surprised and amused that it’s the kids who find the coke, and that Henry (in a classic little kid lie) claims that he has done coke before, which leads to them “doing” some of it by trying to eat it. The first people to encounter the bear besides some doomed Norwegian hikers (Kristofer Hivju and Hannah Hoekstra) are two little kids, Dee Dee (Brooklynn Prince, THE FLORIDA PROJECT) and Henry (Christian Convery, Sweet Tooth), who are playing hooky to paint a waterfall (?). They don’t know that a cop named Bob (Isiah Whitlock Jr., DA 5 BLOODS) has very accurately guessed where the dead parachutist they found would’ve dumped the rest of his drugs, and is headed in the same direction. Syd gets Daveed (O’Shea Jackson Jr., INGRID GOES WEST) to push Eddie into it, so the embark on a wacky, violent mismatched buddy road trip. He wants his son Eddie (Alden Ehrenreich, SOLO) to take care of it, even though he quit the drug business and is mourning the recent death of his wife. Ray Liotta in his final completed role (though IMDb lists three more on the way) plays Syd, a drug lord desperate to reclaim the lost shipment before the Colombians come down on him. The movie keeps the year, maybe so they don’t have to deal with cell phones, or as an excuse to put Depeche Mode’s “Just Can’t Get Enough” on the soundtrack, or perhaps just for mustache purposes. So this is really more Based On Events That Would’ve Been Funny than on True Events. Yes, a bear really did eat this man’s cocaine, but then it didn’t do jack shit to anybody. It’s pretty funny how much Banks pushes the disingenuous idea that it’s a true story by showing a real news report about Andrew C.Thornton II, a drug smuggler whose parachute failed when he abandoned his plane and he landed in a Knoxville, Tennessee driveway on September 11, 1985. And she’ll do anything to get more of that stuff. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s just a silly goof with a simple nature-gone-amuck premise: a drug smuggling plane dumps its payload in the Chattahoochee National Forest, a black bear finds and eats some of the cocaine, now she’s angrily rampaging around eating tourists and the people searching for the other bags. I kind of enjoyed it and I’m certainly on board for this type of movie – pretty gory, not serious about anything, spending $35 million of Universal Pictures’ money to get very good bear animation FX in what is otherwise kind of on the level of a PIRANHA or ALLIGATOR sequel. COCAINE BEAR is a kind of funny new horror comedy written by Jimmy Warden ( THE BABYSITTER: KILLER QUEEN) and directed by Elizabeth Banks (Rita Repulsa in the POWER RANGERS movie). ![]()
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