Search Party **
Dir: Scot Armstrong.
With: Alison Brie, T.J. Miller, Krysten Ritter, Thomas Middleditch. 93 mins.
Cert: 15
The bromance lingers
on in Hollywood thinking, like a fart in a sex dungeon. Writer-director Scot
Armstrong here revises his millennial hit Road
Trip’s general trajectory, this time with thirtysomething roomies
retrieving a naked bud from Mexico. Guilty snorts lurk between the
level-setting gay panic and the finale’s vomiting donkey, yet our dumbly
conformist travelling companions aren’t notably charming, and prove
persistently creepy around anything female. These films were always down on
women – Armstrong squanders the peerless Krysten Ritter as eye-candy – but this
slovenly runaround only exposes the low opinion they’ve harboured of their
target male demographic. We’re meant to identify with these dicks?
Search Party opens in cinemas nationwide today.
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