Cocaine Bear

This is a movie that makes no apologies for trying to make you howl in laughter and disgust – at the same time.

Save yourself the price of admission and just watch the trailer if you haven’t already, or—better yet—make your own TikTok version. It’ll be funnier and will cost viewers a lot less time.

Why does the bear kill everyone it meets during its drug rampage except for the one person it decides to kidnap? Why don’t people with guns shoot the bear when they have the chance? Because the movie needs to happen, that’s why!

French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard allegedly said that all you needed for a good movie was “a girl and a gun.” If the movie is called “Cocaine Bear,” all you need is yayo and a clone of Yogi.

[It] acts like it’s above the clichés it’s stringing together.

The film is well made, efficient, clever, and some of its funny lines will have you, um, snorting. But in the end, it’s still about a bear on a coke binge.

It would benefit from being a lot more silly, a lot more of the time.

Cocaine Bear is as fun as it is scattershot. Full of great moments that shine separately, but that don't achieve a good cohesion between them. [Full review in Spanish]

Using vivid imaginations, writer Warden and director Banks send their pretend bear on a rampage...

Cocaine Bear betrays its invitation to excess and title's luster with a puritanism that, ironically, matches the biggest flaw of Banks' movie: superficiality. [Full review in Spanish]