Hugely Popular, Not Well Done

Rating: 3/10 (23 March 2012)

Trite and contrived, this movie took a superior book and milled out a collection of frames without any clear answer to the question, "Why?"
An example is the movie's failure to explain why it became necessary for a society to kill its children. It went like this: there was a war, there was suffering so, we decided to start killing our kids.
After giving the kids more to eat than they could dream of, the killing begins. Why? We don't know. As the heroes arise, a rebellion takes shape. Why? Who knows?
Then, there's the over-the-top performance of Stanley Tucci, a truly talented actor who was directed to make his role as "Caesar Flickerman" as a blue-haired goof ball.
Mad Magazine would have a great time with this weirdo flick.