The best of the series - but that's not saying much.

Rating: 5/10 (26 March 2018)

Fun fact - the length of time it takes for The Hunger Games to start in this movie is 82 minutes. The length of "South Park - Bigger Longer And Uncut" (including credits) is 81 minutes. If you want to be entertained by this movie, I'd recommend playing both simultaneously and switching over to "Catching Fire" when South Park sadly ends.
Plot - This movie is very boring for most of it. All of the events up until the Hunger Games start are boring, predictable (even if you haven't read the book), nonsensical, and forgettable. The story even when the Hunger Games actually starts is still pretty stupid but at least there's some entertainment to be had in the hilarious nonsense of stupid characters, continuity errors, bad effects all contributing to the poor execution of this sequel.
Characters - Most of these characters act like total morons. None of them are very interesting. Most of the characters do the thing where they withhold information just to create some cheap conflict. I'm not a fan of watching stupid people run around on screen in idiotic situations. Some of the actors seemed to be into their roles, but most of them didn't seem to really care.
Sights and Sounds - The sound design is ok, I guess. Most of the effects are very bad. The cinematography is terrible. The previous movie made so much money you'd've thought that they made enough money to buy a tripod. Evidently not as this movie is also extremely reliant on the handheld.
The Games - The Hunger Games seem to be very improvisational even thought they're supposed to be a decades-old tradition. Everything is very random but at the same time simplistic. If you really think about any aspect of these movies they really fall apart. The story isn't very compelling or interesting or coherent. its mainly just a load of nonsense designed to entertain the target audience of 12-year-olds who liked the book.