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Recalls old school all-star scavenger hunt type movies such as 1979 Scavenger Hunt itself & more properly the original 1963 It’s A Mad Mad Mad World. Midnight Madness is Michael J Fox’s 1st film. Treasure Hunt is from 2003, but Million Dollar Mystery is from 1987 by Richard Fleischer, son of famed Betty Boop animator Max Fleischer - and is the film that famed stuntman Dar Robinson died making.

Of course all the Indy movies, Pirates Of The Caribbean, National Treasure, DaVinci Code & Jumanji stuff are scavenger hunts, but are less wacky & packed with celebs as they are more fantasy adventures centered around a single star with others orbiting around them.

Then there are movies that are a different kind of scavenger hunt such as Simon Pegg’s Fantastic Fear Of Everything where he goes everywhere through everything looking for himself. Aubrey Plaza’s To Do List is a scavenger hunt of experiences she has to dig up however she may in order to check off.

Another check off list movie would be 100 Girls. A lot of flicks like this tend to be more serious, even existential though. Most hero tales are serious scavenger hunts, such as Odysseus or Star Wars & the ultimate - The Lord Of The Rings.

To stretch this more, Lay The Favorite is somewhat in that vein where it’s a search for the deal in a mentor-mentee sort of way, but that’s just a flavor & not within the genre. 1994s Greedy is bit more back on track. Steve Martin goes on a hunt with Eddie Murphy in Bowfinger for shots to make a movie.

The entire Hangover series is really just a scavenger hunt but this time with an ensemble more or less cooperating rather than competing. Road Trip & later Sex Tape also use ensemble or duo comedy to find their goal. Mel Brooks 1976 Silent Movie is a buddy movie in search of a successful deal & follows scavenger hunt tropes applied toward its goal. Zombieland is a type of hunt in the vein of Harold & Kumar.

The scavenger hunt genre itself is comedy though, pretty madcap & slapstick, full of a large cast of celebs that work well as co-stars without being leads themselves, everyone against everyone & not really an ensemble since the genre requires that the journey toward the goal brings out the worst in everyone since it’s competition & not cooperation. You know - like western capitalist dogma.

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