"The Hungover Games" is one of those type of spoofs that mean well and tries really hard, but ultimately fail to deliver. Now, I am not saying that the movie is bad, it just really wasn't as funny as it was supposed to be. I can honestly say that I didn't laugh a single time throughout the entire movie.
For a movie of this type, then "The Hungover Games" takes on a variety of other movies, such as "Ted", "The Hunger Games" (obviously), "Pirates of the Caribean", "Avatar", "The Hangover", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "The Human Centipede", "The Lone Ranger", and so forth. It is meant well, I am sure of it, but the comedy just slipped through every crack possible.
The acting in the movie was adequate, and people were doing fair jobs with their given roles, they just didn't have too much of a script to work with.
I used to love spoofs, such as "Hot Shots", "Scary Movie" and the like. Whether it is because I outgrew the genre, or because the spoof movies today are lacking what they did back in the 1990's, I do not know.
"The Hungover Games" is good enough entertainment if you have absolutely nothing else to watch.
The Hungover Games
2014
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
The Hungover Games
2014
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Plot summary
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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Not even when hungover would this be a great movie...
I feel numb.
Like...reference humor isn't funny. At all.
The movie was bland and doing Inception as a middle finger at the end was dumb.
The Hungover Games: Offensively stupid
Plot
A spoof on The Hangover (2009), The Hunger Games (2012) and other movies, TV series etc. 4 men, with hangovers after a bachelor party, find themselves in a future, dystopian, kill or be killed game.
Cast
A combination of people who should be ashamed of themselves being involved in something like this and pitiful folks like Tara Reid & Jamie Kennedy who will take any script they're offered. Caitlyn Jenner is also present, for some reason.
Verdict
We went through a spate of these types of movies, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans etc and let's be honest the one consistent thing about them is that they were all truly unconditionally awful.
The Hungover Games is the same thing, please allow me to break it down for you. Loosely splice two current popular movies concepts, throw in lots of current pop culture references and characters (All the things currently trending), incorporate humor befitting an 8 year old and boom you have yourself 90 minutes of stupidity off the scale.
The Hungover Games also slaps us with overwhelming levels of "T&A" which returns to the 8 year old mentality.
Never mind Panto, this is where careers go to die.
Rants
Who are these films for? I genuinely don't understand it. It's not loaded with easter eggs and neat references people will appreciate, the Avatar character for example is just a naked woman painted blue who contributes nothing and is only on screen briefly. The humor is juvenile but the movie rating is too high for children, adult's will find it infantile, there is no real plot, the cast don't even try, it's just all so truly terrible! Why do films like this exist?
Breakdown
Cast phone everything in
Offensively unfunny
Stupid beyond words
Kennedy, Reid and Jenner!