I don't mind a little bit of gross out humor in a movie. But when you use it too much in a parody movie or comedy, it makes it not really funny but disgusting.
Friedberg and Seltzer's latest film features a 60000 calorie burger, a black guy with pink facial hair, Taylor Swift killing someone with music, and Psy getting shot by a arrow.
This is The Starving Games. But the movie should have been called Audience Reactions: The Movie. Because thats basically what this movie is. Nearly half of this movie is an audience being grossed out, hungry, or just laughing.
The movie starts out with what I think is a really funny joke where she shoots Oz with a bow and arrow. This joke is really funny but we get very few of these laughs throughout the movie. Its basically Kat- I mean Kantmiss Evershot trying to survive The Starving Games with Peeta or whatever.
This movie's plot is rushed and it should have been longer because they should have more time to parody The Capital instead of The Main Arena. The movie is also very low budget. The effects look very cheap even for the gross out scenes. Characters are not very likable ranging to stock characters from the used section that include cowards, tough guys, jealous guys, tough girls and more stock characters.
I think Friedberg and Seltzer have no clue what to do with the parodies or comedy scenes so they just decide to put in some audience reactions, deaths, gross out scenes and more. Its not really much of a parody then a depressing attempt to make The Hunger Games more funny. Even the bloopers aren't funny even though they do have fun making the film as they go along.
I like Friedberg and Seltzer as I am in that minority of people who like low brow comedy. But Starving Games is very unfunny due to the fact they have nothing to do. I love you guys. But this movie is a fail.
52/100 C
Friedberg and Seltzer's latest film features a 60000 calorie burger, a black guy with pink facial hair, Taylor Swift killing someone with music, and Psy getting shot by a arrow.
This is The Starving Games. But the movie should have been called Audience Reactions: The Movie. Because thats basically what this movie is. Nearly half of this movie is an audience being grossed out, hungry, or just laughing.
The movie starts out with what I think is a really funny joke where she shoots Oz with a bow and arrow. This joke is really funny but we get very few of these laughs throughout the movie. Its basically Kat- I mean Kantmiss Evershot trying to survive The Starving Games with Peeta or whatever.
This movie's plot is rushed and it should have been longer because they should have more time to parody The Capital instead of The Main Arena. The movie is also very low budget. The effects look very cheap even for the gross out scenes. Characters are not very likable ranging to stock characters from the used section that include cowards, tough guys, jealous guys, tough girls and more stock characters.
I think Friedberg and Seltzer have no clue what to do with the parodies or comedy scenes so they just decide to put in some audience reactions, deaths, gross out scenes and more. Its not really much of a parody then a depressing attempt to make The Hunger Games more funny. Even the bloopers aren't funny even though they do have fun making the film as they go along.
I like Friedberg and Seltzer as I am in that minority of people who like low brow comedy. But Starving Games is very unfunny due to the fact they have nothing to do. I love you guys. But this movie is a fail.
52/100 C