Film Review – Search Party

For his directorial debut, Scot Armstrong decided to keep it simple. The co-screenwriter of hits such as “Old School” and “The Hangover: Part II,” Armstrong pays tribute to his periodic partner Todd Phillips with “Search Party,” which basically replicates most of his filmography. It’s slow-pitch softball for Armstrong, who doesn’t do anything new with the picture’s working parts, preferring to play it safe with a semi-raunchy tale of panic and problematic retrieval, trying to satisfy the audience with the basics in broheim comedy. “Search Party” isn’t completely without laughs, but a toxic cloud of sameness hangs over the feature, which wheezes from incident to incident, failing to build momentum through limp shock value. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com