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There is a true story behind this chilling and funny movie. and there is a movie
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Aaron Holliday (left), O’Shea Jackson Jr., and a big cocaine bear. Photo by Universal Pictures
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A little over a decade ago, the story of Ikea his monkey, a 7-month-old Japanese macaque in Shearing’s jacket staring out the door of a Toronto furniture store, captivated the world.
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Imagine being moved by this photo and making a King Kong. This is basically the origin story of the cocaine bear.
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The film is tagged as “inspired by real events”, which I think is technically correct. In 1985, the carcass of an American black bear was found in the woods of Georgia. It is currently on display at the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington, Kentucky.
Apparently “Pablo Escovea” came across drugs dropped from a smuggling plane. I spent £80 of what was worth $2 million. Oh, I’m in trouble. It’s too rich for my blood,’ and fell to his death.
Oh, but what if it’s not? What if he cuts to the gills and looks for another hit, slaughtering the wilderness of the Chattahoochee National Forest and eating enough unfortunates to cross its path?
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Enter Cocaine, a 1977 research monograph edited by screenwriter Jimmy Warden, director Elizabeth Banks, and physicians Dr. Robert C. Petersen and Richard C. Stillman, M.D.
They found that cocaine acted as a reinforcing stimulus in tests on rats, guinea pigs, squirrels, pigeons, dogs, rhesus monkeys, and baboons. become particularly general, and negative results in specific species raise skepticism about the experimental conditions used.” roll camera!
The Cocaine Bear trailer suggests 95 minutes of non-stop scratching, chewing, stomach-cutting, and snorting. Nothing more, but enough for Cocaine Bear to pass as comedy art rather than just a fictional snuff film. Advertising 4
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So we have Margo Martindale as a park ranger who just wants to have sex with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, but her romantic plans are thwarted by the presence of Keri Russell. Henry.
O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Alden Ehrenreich also appear as two gangsters serving drug lord Sid Dentwood (Ray Liotta is one of his last screen appearances). They try to recover as much of the stranded cocaine as possible. Standing before them is a sober detective (Isiah Whitlock Jr.) and his mindless teenage criminal, played by Aaron Holliday. Oh yeah, the 300-pound black bear is pixelated to avoid cruelty to animals as well as humans. It wields terrifying pranks by decapitating, delegating, and disarming many of the film’s characters.
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I was amazed at how many of the victims even had knives and firearms, and how creatively the film avoided the use of these weapons by the bear-like protagonist. If Bear had a different slogan, “Stay in line” seems too tame, but “They’re armed. She’s dangerous.”
It’s cruel and funny. I was daunted by the violence many times, but I laughed at the quieter, funny moments in the film, such as the drawn-out 20-question game played by Jackson and Ehrenreich, or the efforts of Whitlock’s character to protect his dog. I noticed that One day, it doesn’t seem to like it. Oh, and the part where the movie almost becomes the Cocaine Kids.It was fun.
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Of course, a movie is a movie, so there will almost certainly be a sequel. With the recent drug eradication incident off the coast of New Zealand, people were calling for cocaine sharks, and the scriptwriters cheekily suggested Cocaine Bear Goes to Space. But Snakes on a Plane managed to go without a sequel, so there’s hope and a slightly revised motto. It will be irresistible.
Cocaine Bear hits theaters on his February 24th.
3.5 out of 5 stars
Chris Knight reviews Black Bear.
Also, there are no bears in No Bears. Read reviews.
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