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Based off of the name, people would associate this film as the inspiration taken from Cocaine Bear. However of course it's not nearly as good given the story, the characters and most importantly the budget. There's nothing special in this film. It's simply about a fake puppet looking raccoon who stumbles upon a bag filled with "rare" drugs, injects it then turns into a crazed killing machine.

The story is filled with a bunch of random intersecting characters with essentially the leads being an over the top unfunny couple, a woman and a sheriff. Jessa Flux also features briefly here and she has her customary shower skin scene plus more (1:13:30, 1:17:40). The film does pick up in the second half but essentially it's just not a "so bad it's good" film and it's not a future cult classic.

It seems as if this documentary mini series should have been made years ago. From this point in time, it does not seem to be much of an audience for those who genuinely care about this story. We remember there was a brief mini series episode in 2022 of the Rich & Shameless which briefly covered this.

Some of the newer revelations is that there were underaged girls on camera during the beginning stages of the franchise. It was clear the cameramen and overall team of the crew weren't experienced or else these problems wouldn't have happened. The girls themselves should have known better as well. This mini series is rather quite bias towards the women "victims" documenting some of these women roughly twenty or so years later.

This mini series also reminds us how big the franchise was during its peak days, with many celebrities supporting them with merchandise and with Joe Francis himself being close with a few of them. The main reason as to why this entire franchise ultimately failed was because of the rise of social media, easier access to free adult sites and also them using real girls as opposed to adult star actresses (however that is of course what made their foundation stand out and feel authentic).

In the end, it may be eye opening to those completely unfamiliar with the situation but for a majority of people, it doesn't cover too much new ground. It is a memory lane/ nostalgia type series.

This is a lesser know independent Canadian film. Only briefly reading the synopsis and seeing that it only features two characters in the film. Also noticed that it is based on a play.

The positives are the acting feels authentic and a lot of the dialogue feels unscripted at times. Both actors do portray their roles decently enough to carry the film.

However the film is certainly too long. Nearly an hour thirty minutes with only two characters and setting around entirely in almost one sole location.

The film is very dialogue driven with a lot of it consisting of these siblings bickering back and forth talking about mainly the sister's past relationships, and some topics about their childhoods.

It does start off relatively intriguing where we see these two characters and are waiting for the inevitable (which one makes the move first). Besides the two characters, there are a lot of phone calls which are picked up by the sister (we don't actually hear the voice of the person on the other end).

We are continually waiting for another person (as suggested by the sister to enter the room but of course no one does). We don't necessarily know if the sister is lying regarding these "clients" coming or not as she mentions a variety of different people.

The film certainly teases a lot with these siblings with the furthest they go is as part of a role play session where they furiously make-out on a chair and as it seemed that they were going further, the phone rings interrupting them. Nearing the finale with the "tie-up" to the bed got rather dull and could have been reduced. It's very clear they both wanted one another, with the brother getting more desperate.

Although the very end we do see them both strip fully nude, lay on the bed briefly with the sister then "piggy-backing" on the brothers back as they go into the bathroom presumably in the shower. The camera then pans to another unrelated scene as it ends.

There are a lot of camera angles and split screens the film uses. In the end this film is nothing more than a bunch of nonsense casual talk with sexual teases waiting for something major to occur (with them going all the way or another character to come into the picture). Surely they could have went "all out" but opted not to.

Certainly about twenty minutes could have been edited down as the pacing got boring and scenes very repetitive.