This movie is what I’d call “stupid funny”. It’s a little predictable but what we’re you coming for Shakespeare? It’s a fun time at the movies and I had a fun time. Don’t we need more things like this in theaters? Yes we do. Worth a watch.

This movie has a bit too much human scenes for a movie about a cocaine addicted bear.

Cocaine Bear has a peculiar jostling quality, as the various characters shuffle onto center stage and then get elbowed aside to make way for the next contender.

Cocaine Bear is imperfect. By traditional cinematic standards, it’s probably not very good. But it is fun and won’t disappoint many who are titillated by the title.

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

It has an ambling, gory insouciance that might have been more off-putting in a movie not called Cocaine Bear.

Bilge Ebiri

New York Magazine (Vulture)