When it comes to directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer -- the guys behind feature "gems" like Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie and Vampires Suck -- you probably already know what you're getting into with their latest flick The Starving Games. Honestly, it's a wonder these two guys are still making anything at all, let alone another spoof movie -- and yet here they are with a sendup of the 2012 blockbuster The Hunger Games.
Like Friedberg and Seltzer's previous efforts, The Starving Games is entirely made up of gross-out humor and one-note pop culture references, all strung together to make -- well, not so much a "film" as "83 minutes of terrible things happening on a screen." But for the sake of clarity, the story centers on teenager Kantmiss Evershot (Maiara Walsh), who bravely takes the place of her younger sister in a televised fight to the death called The Starving Games -- an admitted ripoff of Running Man and Battle Royale, according to Diedrich Bader's villainous President Snowballs. Joining Kantmiss is Peter Malarkey (Cody Christian), a dimwitted baker's son who also volunteers to compete, in a foolish attempt to get closer to Kantmiss. The grand prize for winning this tournament? An old ham, a coupon to Subway and... a partially eaten pickle.
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