Cocaine Bear: The Thin White Line Between Camp, Cult, and Crap

While Cocaine Bear attempts to be both campy and a cult classic, it achieves neither, resulting in an exercise in aggressive mediocrity.

               

Cocaine Bear desperately wanted to be a campy cult movie, without all of the necessary elements needed for a campy cult movie. Directed by Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect 2, Charlie’s Angels), written by Jimmy Warden (The Babysitter: Killer Queen), Cocaine Bear seemingly had all of the hallmarks of a great movie: dumb premise, dumb title, …