★★★★ Extremely black and outrageous humor: a bit of respite from the fear that reigns among filmmakers when it comes to thinking, first, of not offending anyone. Elizabeth Banks, an increasingly better director, tells here how a bear accidentally consumes kilos of cocaine and unleashes a bloody, dizzying, violent and, above all, comic disaster. Through this minimal story, what we see is a paranoid society at the mercy of an unforeseen threat (sounds like something recent to you?) and Banks decides to go deep and mix blood and pieces of meat with gigantic and carefree laughter. . Which, considering the finicky state of cinema today, is already a value to be respected. There’s something of a It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World ensemble comedy in what Banks manages to pull off here, inspired—believe it or not—by a true story. A film that also offers us a healthy reflection: to think about what it is that triggers us to laugh, how the worst misfortune can be, from the right distance, a reason for comedy.
