Review of The Starving Games (2013) by Jen M — 04 Dec 2013

This spoof or parody written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, creators of other similar "works of art" can easily fulfil the criteria for the "Worst films of the year". Not many things in this movie were funny, and some of them will make you cry - how low can they go! In this film I could recognize The Hunger Games, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows, The Avengers, Avatar, The Great and Powerful Oz, The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey and The Expendables... but I wish I didn't. This was a movie made on a lowest possible budget: it was around $4.5 million dollars, and the shooting lasted only one month!

It kind of goes without saying that the writing and direction here is abysmal, with the only bit of coherency coming from the viewer's prior knowledge of The Hunger Games... If you like to lower your IQ, and to be annoyed by bits in the movie that aren't satirizing the source material, instead merely pointing at it and saying, "Hey, remember this?" - watch it! I already wasted too many words on this... enough.