Cocaine Bear

Last night my nephew Sean and I went to see Cocaine Bear with a large crowd at the Broadway and we had a blast with all of the chaotic humor!  When a large shipment of cocaine is inadvertently dropped into the Chattahoochee National Forest, a 500-pound black bear ingests it and becomes highly aggressive as two unfortunate backpackers (Kristofer Hivju and Hannah Hoekstra) soon discover.  Drug kingpin Syd White (Ray Liotta) sends his henchman Daveed (O'Shea Jackson, Jr.) and son Eddie (Alden Ehrenreich) to retrieve it with a local detective (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) hot on their trail.  Meanwhile, two teens named Dee Dee (Brooklynn Prince) and Henry (Christian Convery) skip school and head to the forest so she can paint a waterfall while her mother (Keri Russell) enlists the help of a park ranger (Margo Martindale) and a wildlife expert (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) to find them.  Add three juvenile delinquents (Aaron Holliday, J.B. Moore, and Leo Hanna), two paramedics (Kahyun Kim and Scott Seiss), and a police officer on the take (Ayoola Smart) and mayhem ensues!  As soon as I heard "Jane" by Jefferson Starship (all of the needle drops in this movie are fantastic) during the opening scene, I knew that it would be a wild ride and it was!  There are too many characters to keep track of and the pacing is sometimes uneven but I have to admit that it is wildly entertaining!  Sean and I laughed out loud through the whole thing with some of the funniest moments coming when the violence is at its most graphic (the ambulance scene is hilarious).  This is exactly what you would expect from a movie about a bear jacked up on coke and, if you go in knowing that, it is a lot of fun!  I recommend seeing it with the biggest crowd possible!