12 of the most joyously ridiculous, coke-fueled things about Cocaine Bear

polygon.com:

For a film with little to no subtext, Cocaine Bear has a lot going on. It’s a creature feature where the monster is a bear that’s high on cocaine. It’s a nostalgic trip back to the ’80s — the era of tight perms, Members Only jackets, and synthesizers. It’s a winking internet in-joke, with a cast that includes memeable celebrities like The Wire’s Isiah Whitlock Jr. (yes, he does say “sheeeeit”), TikTok star Scott Seiss, and Kristofer Hivju, a.k.a. Tormund Giantsbane from Game of Thrones. But most of all, it’s 95 minutes of drug humor.

Directed by Elizabeth Banks (Charlie’s Angels, Pitch Perfect 2) and loosely inspired by a true story popularized on an episode of My Favorite Murder, Cocaine Bear has a frenzied energy to match its, let’s say, stimulating subject matter. The film opens with a scene of a man laughing maniacally while throwing duffel bags full of coke out of a plane, as Jefferson Starship — a cocaine band if there ever was one — blares in the background. Soon after, that same man smacks his head on the jamb of the open plane hatch and tumbles to his death in the national park below. Alas, the wrapped kilos of ski powder that land with him do not break his fall. Enter the bear, who comes for the fresh blood and stays for the white clouds of pep.

The rest of the film plays out in a series of interwoven storylines, anchored by the characters Daveed (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), a middle-management type in a drug trafficking organization, and Eddie (Alden Ehrenreich), son of bossman Syd (the late Ray Liotta), who’s in mourning for his wife and really isn’t up for a road trip to north Georgia to recover millions of dollars worth of lost drugs. (Daveed makes him come along anyway.) Then we meet Sari (Keri Russell), a single