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"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.

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!

I saw this for free on IMDb's Freedrive and it was "meh". I did laugh at a few scenes, but that was it. While this film was still a letdown, I will say this; It wasn't insultingly unfunny like, say Epic Movie or Disaster Movie. There was a least some attempts at humor and they actually tried to make an actual parody film that wasn't full of irrelevant pop culture references that weren't funny (well, sorta), but compared to anything Setlzerberg has made, I give this an E for effort. It doesn't help that like Epic Movie, this film also features cameos from Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp version) and Captain Jack Sparrow and those were even still dated, back when Epic Movie was in theaters, back in early 2007. If want to watch this on Freedrive, I'd say go ahead, just don't expect anything like Airplane or Scary Movie.

Not a strong parody movie. Some of the jokes are just awful and it's a little sad to see some name/recognisable actors in this.

Zach (Alan) was reasonably funny and I saw flashes of Ed (Stu) and Bradley (Phil) but there was barely enough in here to elicit a chuckle.

Bonus points for Katnip's breasts.

I've been watching movies of all genres since the 1940's. So what is so wrong with this movie that it warrants such a low rating and so many negative comments? In my humble opinion absolutely nothing's 'wrong' with it, in fact I thoroughly enjoyed viewing it. The plot doesn't offend (it is what it has to be as a parody - KISS simple), the scriptwriting is excellent, the camera work/lighting is professionally done and the actors all do their part well. There was a synergism between the principal actors and they worked together really well.

I can understand that the movie will not be to everyone's taste: the humor certainly is a little raspy-raw toilet humor at times but that certainly did not define the humorous content of the movie as a whole and there's an unashamed borrowing of ideas and more from other movies: but it works and works amazingly well! After reading other reviewers comments I didn't expect much from this movie but kept an open mind and I'm glad I did otherwise I'd have missed out on a very enjoyable movie experience.

If I had to pick the most notable actor in this movie it would have to be the guy with the beard for his extraordinary portrayal of 'the other' guy with the beard in 'the other' movie. I also have to admit that I'm a fan of the beautifully sexy Rita Volk and she didn't disappoint. In summary then, nicely controlled tongue in cheek performances from the entire cast make for a very good laugh out loud piece of film entertainment. I rate it 6.5.