invisibleunicornninja
More effort was put into this movie than the movie that its parodying. True, the overall look of this movie is cheap and a lot of the humor is a bit crude, but it all works in the movie's favor. This masterpiece is a parody of the mess that is the Hunger Games and as a result there is a fantastic movie. I don't want to say a lot about this movie in the review. Its well worth just watching.
elshikh4
With a career of all horrible comedies, how come that Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are still in business to this day ?! It could be the most confusing mystery in the modern history ! While The Starving Games (2013) is a parody of a weak movie named The Hunger Games (2012), it's weaker than it. Rather, it hit the bottom of "weakness", whether as a comedy, or as a movie !Saying that it has laughs is like saying that there are birds in space. There is no fun to be seen. It's like a horror of weird stuff, shown successively, with the least talents. Actually there is something creepy about poor movie that enjoys mixing blood, farts, bad jokes, terrible bore, and cinematic primitiveness ! While making a comedy needs vitality and sharpness, this one is ruled by laziness and dullness. For little example, look how the heroine runs haphazardly into The Expendables, The Avengers, and The Lord of The Ring's leads. It's a pathetic way to mock at these movies, especially when the result is always dry micro-sketches that have no smart line, no stars as cameos, and no criticism for any ironic fault in these very movies !At one moment, the heroine's colleague has a deep wound in his back, which the movie oddly focuses on its sticky repulsive sight. And at another no less repulsive moment, the heroine spits heavy blood. Then, the movie loves the 2 moments to the extent of showing them AGAIN in the blooper reel. Let alone that there is more than one scene for human and animalistic excretion. Well, in my book, when a movie succeeds in making you nauseated; then it's not a comedy at all ! And while it pocks fun of an action, how come that it's more violent than it ?! Seriously, the original movie doesn't have half of this parody's violence where many killings, by arrows or spears, are shown shockingly and bluntly. You can argue that this is a black comedy. But according to the movie's lQ; it's color blind !It even ends abruptly, like it's a sudden death !But still one matter that kills me. Why repeating the shots ?? I mean, the catatonic mother, the sequence of beating the competitors by different weapons, the copious unchangeable cadres of President Snowballs, his assistants, and the stage's wealthy viewers while they're watching the games… Why to repeat all of this FOR ALL THE TIME ??!! It's an agony before being another source of stupidity !Trying to be objective here, and find any positive points to talk about, needs superpower, but I'll try : Maiara Walsh and Diedrich Bader have charisma, and delivered something close to good performance. The first scene of President Snowballs, with the goofy introduction and speech, was the only time where I smelled "effort". Bringing up matters like the degeneration of some reality TV shows, and begging sequels by simply adding a lesbian love story in other shows, was into the point satire. Else that, and with all the superpowers in the world, you won't find an extra iota of positiveness in this ! The Starving Games is ugly and sanguinary comedy that has no comedy in the first place. So how come that Friedberg & Seltzer are paid money for making comedies with nothing funny like that, while – notice well – others have to pay for watching that itself ?!! As for my title's question, the answer is : "It's my fate". And as for the rest of my questions concerning Friedberg & Seltzer.. I have no answer whatsoever !
Charles Stauffer
In the style of "Airplane" The starving games is a broad parody which throws every joke they can at the screen and hopes that at least a few of them work.....and for the most part they do. This is a laugh a minute movie which actually stays fairly honest to it's original source material. It is not for everybody, but if you enjoy goofy parodies of movies then this one is worth seeing. The cast is strong, the dialog while a bit crude at times fits the scenes, and it is paced well and builds to a worthwhile , ( and expected,), conclusion.You could make a movie far worse than " The Starving Games", but it would take some real effort to make a low budget flick better than this little gem. Forget the negative reviews and add this flick to your weekly rental list...you will be surprised and glad that you did.
print um
This spoof of The Hunger Games is a good laugh if you have nothing better to do. I did not watch the original movie but did skim through the book on which it is based. Do not watch this unless you are willing to be disappointed at some parts. Not having watched the Avengers, Avatar and some of the parodied movies I could not understand some of the references, yet the movie can stand on its own. Overall it is watchable but sometimes the jokes fall flat. This is one of those movies people will watch in order "to find out if it is as bad as people say it is". Should one rent it to watch? The answer is NO. Watch if free. In short, it is watchable but just barely.
