07/05/2023
(7/10)
Co***ne Bear: Wow did this bear get into some bad marmalade
Director Elizabeth Banks' latest film brings back the cinematic stylings of films like Snakes on a Plane or the Piranha franchise. It's entirely over the top in every sense and frankly I'm a little surprised a company like Troma didn't pick up the idea of a bear on coke first. Essentially it's the kind of movie that fully understands what it is. It's a gruesome slasher comedy that puts a rampaging bear in the place of a serial killer complete with absurd kills and a synth heavy score. The best part... it doesn't try too hard. My worry going into this was that it would wind up being the kind of film that winks at its audience anytime it barrels through genre cliches. Thankfully it doesn't do that and rides the line just enough to be hilarious.
However, it is pretty clear that no one involved had any idea how to end the film and almost everything that happens in the last quarter feels rushed to an absurd degree (including this one flashback that feels so abrupt it almost took me out of the experience as I could only think about how strangely edited that moment was for several moments after). There's a great deal of subplots in the film, but they're all used to sell the jokes... it's when all of them finally collide together that things finally fall apart which sort of fizzles out the fun (luckily not quite enough to sour the whole film).
Overall, if you're looking for a movie about a rampaging bear that does co***ne than this is exactly that movie.
On a rampage for blow and blood. Meet ***neBear. Only in Theaters February 24th. https://www.co***nebear.movie/ Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug ...
