Moviegoers Applaud 'Cocaine Bear,' Express Disappointment In 'Fentanyl Crocodile'

HOLLYWOOD, CA—Audiences were highly disappointed and it was further reported that most had walked out of the theatre following the opening scene of Fentanyl Crocodile, in which a ravenous crocodile, after taking copious amounts of the deadly drug, fentanyl, set to go on killing spree, suddenly has a fatal overdose. 

Following the success of Universal’s Cocaine Bear, this new highly anticipated new action film, which opened this past weekend in select theaters across the country, was met with high criticism from the majority of audience members. Mainly because the filmmakers decided to have the main “bad guy,” a deadly, ravenous, crocodile, high on a relatively-new drug, die abruptly in the film’s opening scene. 

“Man, I was looking forward to that movie,” began Chad Hester, who attended the opening weekend with his friends. “Cocaine Bear was just an awesome ride, and with the upcoming movie Meth Gator, really love this new sub-genre! With this, it was a crocodile high on drugs, eating his way through Orlando during spring break!? You can’t go wrong! It’s just weird they had him take fentanyl, that stuff is so dangerous. No wonder he just suddenly died. I’m not surprised, just a little disappointed.”

Filmgoer and USC writing grad, Kim Mares, wasn’t quite as forgiving.

“I think the choice to have the drug be fentanyl was like, a bad writing decision. Don’t get me wrong, the opening scene was realistic—one of my friend's uncles died from it that way—but it just didn’t leave the film any room to go anywhere. We came to see a man-eating reptile, high out of his mind, terrorizing college students. Instead, he overdosed and blamed it on the Sackler family? I mean, it was sad, but that’s not what we signed up for.”