Cocaine Bear - Movie Reviews (2024)

If you focus on how the story is crafted, each scene has a hook of dialogue or visual cue that links it to the next. There are no hanging threads. The sprawling nature of the characters is akin to Robert Altman levels of ambition.

Full Review | Jun 2, 2024

Ultimately, Cocaine Bear will only be enjoyable to people who think a movie called Cocaine Bear sounds enjoyable.

Full Review | May 15, 2024

There was an inciting incident and then people wandered around

Full Review | Apr 24, 2024

Honestly, I got more laughs watching The Whale

Full Review | Apr 24, 2024

As such, the insanity that is Cocaine Bear is only reserved for its trailer, which promises an insane ride at the movies, only for the movie to be a total whimper.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Mar 6, 2024

Cocaine Bear is a great bad idea, the kind that happens at 3am after too many edibles, and then you wake up two days later and find you've written a script in a fever dream you don't remember, and the script is Cocaine Bear, and it's not bad...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 2, 2023

Chances are if the premise of a film is its best joke, then it is not going to be a particularly great film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 25, 2023

While I can’t stress enough that this script feels messy, parts of the production make us root for the finished product despite ourselves. We knew going in this felt like a skit being stretched into a movie.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2023

Cocaine Bear delivers precisely what it promised: an absolutely insane bear wreaking bloody, gory, visually shocking havoc while committing unimaginably ridiculous actions.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 25, 2023

"Cocaine Bear" delights in its own dysfunction and unapologetically revels in it for 90 minutes straight.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

Obviously, this isn't a film for kids or people who can't handle seeing lots of blood on the screen. But for everyone else, "Cocaine Bear" is just a fun time that packs in several laughs through its absurd and welcome violence.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

Cocaine Bear is a bear doing cocaine for about 75 percent of the film & then murdering stupid people. The kills, the murder, the blood , are all fun but there’s quite a few dull moments that hold the film back. An overly long SNL skit

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

Cocaine Bear makes little attempt to be a movie; it’s more a bunch of random scenes strung together with the hope of making people laugh and guffaw.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2023

As someone who grew up in rural Appalachia during the height of the Reagan era, I can attest that bundles of drugs regularly fell from the sky.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2023

Cocaine Bear will, in time, stand as a dated artifact of the current moment's vogue for viral animal videos and epic memes.

Full Review | Jun 8, 2023

On the pantheon of movies about animals doing drugs, Cocaine Bear ranges somewhere above Bachelor Party (RIP, sex donkey) and somewhere below Fritz the Cat, take that endorsem*nt as you will.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 2, 2023

Banks is a competent director, but her humour doesn’t have the dark edge the material calls for – imagine the twisted fun a Sam Raimi or Dead Snow’s Tommy Wirkola could have with a concept like this.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 30, 2023

It should be pretty clear from the outset whether or not this is your sort of film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 30, 2023

In the end, there is a half-assed setup for a sequel, but since they never made Snakes on a Plane 2 (which I could have gotten behind), Cocaine Bear may not prove as lasting as the real bear that inspired it.

Full Review | May 29, 2023

A film that believes it is taking us right up to the edge in bad taste comedy and violence. The problem is once it believes it has gotten to that edge, it just stares off into the distance along with us wondering where the laughs and terror will arrive.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 22, 2023