Just as in

the case of "Snakes on a plane" (or for that matter: "Women talking") the title says it all.

A bear on coke.

It can't end well.

Neither does it.

Either for the human bait or by extension the filmmakers.

Actor and director Elizabeth Banks's ("Call Jane") latest directorial effort is "inspired" by a true story from 1985 about a black bear who accidentally ingests a whole lot of cocaine thrown out of an airplane in the middle of a nature park.

In reality, however, the bear died fairly quickly as the drug ate away at its insides, but in this colorful story, the 250 kg teddy bear quickly becomes addicted and hunts through the forest for more cargo - and kills and maims a lot of people who get in her way.

Banks and

the gang make a successful attempt at reviving the old cheesy 80s action comedy genre.

You remember: that kind of film that critics called rubbish and therefore absolutely must see.



"Cocaine bear" bursts forth with a firework of clear time markers such as hockey frills, poodle coats, pastels and Pacer X cars - which makes for a really entertaining pastiche at times.

But tension and humor are as difficult a combo now as they were 40 years ago.

In nine cases out of ten, the one takes the other.

So also here.

And even if the moronic atmosphere, with the many Kling and Klang-like villains, is deliberately created, in the long run it just becomes just... moronic.


The saddest is the ending, which with its conventional form apologizes for the baroque film you have just shown.

"Run the rope out, for the bull!", I shout.

Not.

Reach.

The Norwegian

acquaintance from "Beck",

Kristoffer

Hivju, makes a short but entertaining contribution as a naive nature muppet and we also see the always hot Ray Liotta's last contribution.

He died a few weeks after the recording and actually just recently got a posthumous star on the Hollywood walk of fame.



The best is still the digital bear.

But the visual effects team also consists of over a hundred people, one of whom has the unique role of "lead fur groomer", i.e. first fur groomer.

Such did not exist in the 80s.