The Starving Games

2013

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi

31
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 25%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 25% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 3.3/10 10 23905 23.9K

parody satirical

Plot summary

In this Hunger Games spoof, Kantmiss Evershot must fight for her life in the 75th annual Starving Games, where she could also win an old ham, a coupon for a foot-long sub, and a partially eaten pickle.

Director

Jason Friedberg Photo
Jason Friedberg

Top cast

Barbara Harris Photo
Barbara Harris as Additional Voices
Cynthia Kaye McWilliams Photo
Cynthia Kaye McWilliams as Additional Voices
Danny Cosmo Photo
Danny Cosmo as Camera Man
Ian Casselberry Photo
Ian Casselberry as Skyblu Look-a-like
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
694.25 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 4
1.23 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 25

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by duraznoboi

Why

I have absolutely NO IDEA why my parents let me watch this as a kid.
Reviewed by GTeixeira 2 / 10

Better than their previous attempts, but still far from good

Yet another 'modern spoof' by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, 'The Starving Games' has as its main focus of parody the 'Hunger Games' film. Alongside it, multiple references/spoofs of other hit films like 'The Avengers' or 'Expendables', or popular culture in general.Friedberg and Seltzer have for very long tried to copy the parody style of David Zucker, with varying degrees of success: 'Scary Movie' was very good (though I believe that was more due to the other screenwriters involved, like the Wayans' brothers), as was 'Wrongfully Accused' to a lesser degree (though that was more due to Nielsen than their writing), but the rest of their works tend to range from regular to terrible; in fact, their more aimless, messy spoofs ('Epic Movie', 'Disaster Movie') are amongst the worst films I've ever seen.'Starving Games' falls in the second category, with some genuinely funny moments (like the aforementioned 'Avengers' and 'Expendables' spoofs) but with a lot of bad ones (including, for example, the rather tasteless sex scene). Friedberg/Seltzer try so much to cram as many 'hip' references as possible, that by the end the final product is an unfunny, idiotic-looking mess. The fact no actor here managed to give a good comedic vibe, which could save some scenes (something Leslie Nielsen was very good at), makes this worse than it could have been; the actors don't even seem to try at all, and no one has any charisma (especially the main actress).Unfortunately, while this is a slightly better attempt, It doesn't give me hope for their future career. The fact their comedies seem to keep having a degree of audience success means they will keep with this formula. Guess I will just have to learn to stop bothering with their films.
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