Cocaine Bear

What have The Barden Bellas and a black bear on Class A drugs got in common you ask?

Elizabeth Banks follows the brilliant Pitch Perfect trilogy (and her Charlie's Angels reboot) with a film that, to all intents and purposes, should be a slam dunk with a trailer that got some feverish word of mouth.

An embellished (very embellished) story of a drug drop gone wrong which resulted in a bear consuming a fatal amount of cocaine, the film is an 80’s B-movie pastiche trying to capitalise on the current horror-comedy boom.

Unfortunately, it’s almost too good a pastiche ending up so close to the ‘so bad its good’ genre it tries to emulate that it’s just bad; neither that funny or scary.

It’s destined to be a cult classic, but not in the same way as something like a Hot Tub Time Machine or Wet Hot American Summer.

Some scenes hint at the greatness that could have been achieved with one involving a stand off round a pavilion particularly laugh-out-loud.

It’s a shame as a stacked cast definitely know what type of film they’re in, the 80’s filled soundtrack is a blast and it’s filmed well too.

A film you’ll want to like but that just doesn’t work despite the no-brainer premise.

Talcum powder.

2 stars **