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Scavenger Hunt
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or team, amongst his family and hired help, who wins a madcap scavenger hunt.
Release : | 1979 |
Rating : | 5.8 |
Studio : | 20th Century Fox, Melvin Simon Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Richard Benjamin James Coco Scatman Crothers Ruth Gordon Cloris Leachman |
Genre : | Comedy |
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I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
To inherit a fortune, various addressees of a will must compete in a wild scavenger hunt to collect selected items, but cannot be simply bought. Scavenger Hunt is a film that i wanted to watch for years mostly because of Arnold Schwarzenegger's cameo but damn the film is seriously retarded and it got on my nerves after a while and not even The Terminator can save such a mess. The movie is overblown with dumb sequences of Richard Mulligan getting hit by a car, Scatman Crothers who was amazing in The Shining is a basically a parody of himself and unfortunately everyone is a parody of themselves like Roddy McDowall who was also really great in Fright Night he just isn't good as this Butler that goes in search to find this treasure and then there's this young kids that go threw the streets and they find fat people for some reason cause it's funny? I didn't laugh at all except one scene where Arnie hands a ball at one of the characters and he basically goes threw the window with it and he lands on his feet but even that moment was just a small chuckle and unfortunately the movie just isn't funny or entertaining or even realistic enough to make it's viewers to laugh it's actually painful from start to finish and unfortunately a really bad film in a lot of ways. (0/10)
I love "Scavenger Hunt." I saw it on HBO when I was a kid and have remembered lines and bits from it well into my adulthood. I had not seen the film for 20 years when I remembered it and rented the videotape. I was charmed again as I watched with my wife, and we both laughed at the wonderful gags. The climax is terrific. As all fans of this film probably know, this is an underrated classic and is available only on VHS, and even that is hard to find. This film is very clever, and not at all "cheesy." I can't understand why people think 'Spaceballs' or the disgusting Austin Powers movies are funny, but a film like 'Scavenger Hunt' surpasses those kind of films by being hilarious without resorting to the desperate potty humor so prevalent in so-called recent comedies.
This movie has not been given the credit it deserves. An all star cast, well written script, and crazy situations makes this movie a classic, in my opinion.If you enjoy movies like "Rat Race", "It's A Mad Mad Mad World", and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", you'll love Scavenger Hunt. It is very dated (1970s period) but it is definately worth watching. By the way...keep an eye out for several camios including a very young Meatloaf and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Saw this in the theater at a sneak preview, and even after all these years, I recall it was one of the most awful movies I've ever seen. It's one of those films that say, "Hey, we did this gag or told this joke - so you're supposed to laugh." The only person who constantly laughed in the theater was this huge, obese lady sitting by herself eating a 10-gallon bucket of popcorn. At least someone enjoyed it.A total ripoff of Stanley Kramer's "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." Watch that instead.Take my advice: don't waste 2 hours of your life sitting through this #$@%!.