The Hungover Games (2014)
Each year, drunk people are selected to participate in torturous games the morning after a big night out. There's no sunglasses, no water, and no headache medicine. "The Hungover Games," a film that manages to merge the premises of both "The Hunger Games" and "The Hangover" and throw in references to "Ted," "Django Unchained," "The Lord of the Rings," "Carrie," "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and whatever else crossed the writers' fevered brains during the probably very drunken "development process."
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Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Good concept, poorly executed.
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
It's weird that the cast of the movie look a lot like the original cast of The Hangover. Uuuuggghh... why though?
I love this spoof of The Hangover movies, Hunger Games, Thor etc...so frigging funny. I can see, however, that this is not everyone's cup of tea. Very creative writing with dialogue and bits that made me laugh. Its cheesy but hey life isn't always Grade A movies. I also like the actors the actors are portraying. The mannerisms and attitudes are spot on especially the hangover guys. And using the real names of the actors that the actors are spoofing is fun.If you are not looking for something to change the world and just want to have fun why not. Of course if you don't enjoy spoofs don't bother watching. Those of you that do will have a blast. Have I used my 10 lines yet?
A spoof movie doesn't have to do much to get it right so the fact it failed in every way is kind of an accomplishment. Scary Movie 2 and 3 and Epic Movie had me in fits so I don't think you can argue that I just don't like spoof movies but this one... It was lame. A spoof film doesn't have to be tasteful or clever. It doesn't need good acting. It doesn't even have to make sense, it just has to be funny. But this is just boring. It felt like everything that COULD have been funny just ended up being stupid in- your-face nudity. Relying on dildos, curse words, pee, poo and breasts to make a scene funny just seems lazy. A lot of people are going "But dude, it has BOOBS in it!" Guys...if you think boobs make a movie good, you need to find a way around your parents' Safe Search.I'd rather go watch Sex in the City. And I HATE Sex in the City.
The Hungover Games is the latest sluggish addition to the "Let's parody anything that might be remotely funny" category of film, lampooning The Hunger Games (duh), Ted, The Hangover series, Carrie, Django Unchained and others.This film steals so much from its peers, while at the same time lacking so many of its own original ideas that our main characters are actually taken directly from The Hangover. And for the most part, the storyline, or at least the first fifthteen minutes is also exactly the same as the 2009 Vegas Comedy. Just like in those movies, the fourth friend of the group is misplaced, leaving the first three to try and remember all the terrible things that they did the night before, in an attempt to rediscover him. I know this is a parody, but really? Word-for-word lines from The Hangover have been pilfered as their own. It's astonishing the true lack of any creativity that The Hungover Games possesses, whereas other awful spoof movies such as, say, Scary/Epic Movie seem to have some (very few) of their own ideas, here, "writers" Kyle Barnett Anderson et al, make it feel like they've photocopied Todd Philips' screenplay badly and then taken it for themselves. But it turns out our three buddies have been transported to Hunger Games Land where they have to fight to the death with all the other favourable movies of the last seven years or so. This takes all those films you may have possibly enjoyed over the past few years and throws them in to one terrible mush: watch as the Ted bear has a penis, Katniss Everdeen has had her name changed to "Katnip" (HA!), and Willy Wonka is a homosexual. Add to that pops at race, some Human Centipede "jokes", underage sex gags and just a little bit of necrophilia and you experience an hour and a half of pure film diabolica. And for the people who defend the jokes for being jokes, perhaps if they were funny, fine, but otherwise it just comes off as offensive and downright lazy. The brow for this movie is so low that it's scraping along the ground.I'll end on the only two positives: The people who play the Hangover team are very convincing, and the film itself is shot quite nicely. Otherwise, please, do not go and see this movie. I would rather have been dispatched by a Hunger Games arrow to the face then to have seen this film. Run – sprint, even – away if someone suggests watching this piece of garbage. @JonnyJonJon1