Bears on a Ship, Yogi and Boo-Boo on The Love Boat

Okay, I don't want to hear any hate about this film. Sure, it only received a 2.8/10 rating on IMDB but it is a better movie than "The Color Purple," and the creature f/x are infinitely better than the ones in "The Devil Wears Prada 2." Also, this is the first bear film filmed on a cruise liner that has sunk. Really.  Filmed on the MV Aurora after it was sunk, the poor liner was docked in beautiful Stockton, CA undergoing repair when the water gushed in.  Finally it was towed away and scrapped...so sad.  But, not before genius filmmakers filmed 2025's "Bears on a Ship," directed by Eduardo Castrillo. I may say, the creepy setting of a dead ocean liner, with a storied history dating back to 1955, makes this film so worthwhile.

A Russian gangster pays Joe Bear (Christopher Wilson) a lot of dinero to go to Mexico and capture two grizzlies. Two of his hunters are shredded in the capture and now he brings the bears onto the Aurora for sail to the U.S.. Uh oh...an airline strike grounds all airlines and assorted airplane passengers pay Captain Carlos (Raymond Ruiz) for passage back to the States on the Aurora. Among the passengers are Missy (Erin Nolan) and her hubby Dave (Derek Crowe). They are rich and the rest of the passengers are not. Yep...a stoner, looking for a good time unlocks the cages and is eaten. Now the bears prowl the ship shredding everyone they meet. 

Highlights include the New Age bear whisperer woman who attempts to make friends with the beasts...she is clawed to death. The bears seem unstoppable. Okay, stop...no making fun of this movie on this blog!  You have to admit the creature f/x are better than the ones in the Talia Shire scare-a-thon "Prophecy." The bears look like...well, never mind. The passengers that are not shredded ban together, arm themselves, and now hunt the killers.

Enough of this plot which is gritty reality put to film.  Will Yogi and Boo-Boo make it to land in the U.S.?  Will Missy and Dave buy their ways to safety, or will the proletariat on the ship rebel and feed them to the bears?  Is this film a metaphor for Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the milquetoast response by NATO?  This is a good one and I stress, filming aboard a sunken cruise ship is such an appropriate touch for a killer bear film.  See "Bears on a Ship," and remove the need you have to see "The Devil Wears Prada 2."