Review of The Hungover Games (2014) by Gal E — 27 May 2016

This movie is the worst kind of parody. It is messy, poorly planned, badly written, and like most parodies, it is missing crucial parts of the plot.

So why would you watch it? Because it fits into a unique category - it's so bad that it's good. This movie mocks the Hunger games and the Hangover series. It seems that this is the only reason why this movie was written, directed, produced and shot. And it serves well the purpose it was created for.

The cast is sub-par, though I would say Russel and Volk (Margarita Volkovinskaya if you insist) save the day, sort of. Volk, in the role of the forbidden fruit, joint with the fact she acts far better than the more experienced Jennifer Lawrence, and portrays a bizarre, yet more believable Katniss (or Katnip in this case) is an excellent casting choice. She maintains the concept of jail-bate in a dystopia, and she does it well. Russel plays a sort of mad hatter, which I personally enjoyed.

The plot is poorly structured from the start, and the story is a silly combination of two other movie series. As far as The Hunger Games go, this parody is just a fun way to laugh at the production. As far as the Hangover trilogy goes, I would rather have this as the third movie. Which in fact is terrible.

The combination of ridiculous characters fighting senselessly, irrational nudity, poorly delivered violence, and quite a few good looking women, is perhaps not worthy of an Oscar. But it is a fun way to spend hour and a half. Better than quite a few movies I'd like to forget.

The fact of the matter is, I actually watched twice a movie that got some of the lowest rankings ever, and was destroyed in the box office. So I think a B+ is a fair grade for this fun parody.