What’s It About
An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
The title says it all – Cocaine Bear. It sounds like a title a kid would make. Actually, the entire movie seems like something kids would make. Surprisingly, this is a very entertaining movie. It is what it says it is and nothing else. The trailers tell the plot. A black bear found cocaine a dealer dropped from a plane before it crashed. The rest of the movie is so crazy no words could explain the absolute comedic horror of watching a bear with a drug problem rip campers to pieces looking for its next brick of the white stuff. And like a true addict, the bear’s mood was just as unpredictable. He was friendly, crazy, cuddly, lazy, and sometimes showed signs of schizophrenia depending on how fast the bear’s perspective changed. As for the people, they were there to move the story along and give it more of a purpose. Plus, the bear needed a few victims, and some people deserved what they got. Cocaine Bear is one of those gruesome films that makes getting mauled laugh-out-loud funny. Movies like this are usually direct-to-video, but maybe with the success of Cocaine Bear, B-movies can start getting the blockbuster treatment again they used to get back in the days of drive-ins.
OUR RATING – A CRACK FILLED 7.5
MEDIA
- Genre – Comedy
- Street date
- Digital – March 14th, 2023
- DVD/Blu-Ray – April 18th, 2023
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English (DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 for Bonus Content), French Canadian (DTS Digital Surround 5.1), and Latin American Spanish (DTS-HD High Resolution Audio 7.1)
- Subtitles – English, English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras
- Audio Commentary – Elizabeth Banks and producer Max Handelman talk about the movie, bringing it to life, the origins, casting, comedy, and gore. It’s a decent track worthy of a listen.
- Alternate Ending (HD, 1 Min.) – Less than one-minute alternate ending that brings the fate of one character back for more. The theatrical ending is far better.
- Gag Reel (HD, 2 Mins.) – A montage of flubbed lines, missed cues, dancing, and laughter on set.
- Deleted Scenes (HD, 5 Mins.) – A few scenes that were left on the cutting room floor, most of which are just extended sequences.
- All Roads Lead To Cokey (HD, 10 Mins.) – A brief EPK type of feature that includes cast and crew interviews, the true story that inspired the film, the performances, characters, and the bear itself. It’s too short to get into the fun of it all.
- Unbearable Bloodbath (HD, 8 Mins.) – A longer look at some of the more gruesome sequences and how they were made, which was a lot of fun.
- Doing Lines (HD, 4 Mins.) – The cast reads some of the funnier lines from the movie with amplification.