GRIZZLY
It wouldn't have sounded as cool if they'd called it "Brown"
It ain't no Jaws - or even an Anaconda - but it's a fun movie with lots of cool bear-on-man action. The Edge is better in this department overall, but still, not bad.
A fifteen-foot grizzly bear (that's big for a grizzly bear, they say) finds out what the Gore-Met has known all along - that them humans is tasty! Obviously, the park rangers don't take too kindly to this and the hunt is on. Add one part drunken hunters and a dash of people getting pieces of themselves knocked off by a paw from off-screen, and you've got a recipe for fun, baby!
Sure, there's an overreliance on stock footage, the music has that cheesy, overdone 70's thing going on, and the bear, when shown, is never really given a sense of scale with which the viewer can appreciate just how abnormally large it is. It still adds up to a movie that's more enjoyable than not. Even though it's PG, it still had the good awful taste to have a scene with a little boy, a bunny rabbit, and a giant grizzly bear and leaves the bunny rabbit unharmed. (poor kid) And I loved the moment where it knocks off a horse's head, and then we see the hoofs just kind of stumbling about blindly.
The climactic showdown is about as absurd as one can hope - I don't want to give too much away, but I don't remember it being established that this person had brought this weapon along. It's not the kind of weapon that you just pull out of your pocket. Where do you even find one of these things?
Not a masterpiece of cinema by any stretch, but leagues beyond the Crocodile's and Tentacles' of the world. But what's with the cover? Who's that chick? And why didn't they hire a painter who could draw a bear's face?
The IMDb insists on the existence of a sequel with Charlie Sheen. This one's directed by William Girdler, who also did Day Of The Animals and the tender "help, there's an Indian growing out of my neck" drama The Manitou.