THE STARVING GAMES – (2013) – Movie Review ★★

Cast – Maiara Walsh, Brant Daugherty, Lauren Bowles and Diedrich Bader – from the team that wrote the Scary Movie‘s and directed such movie spoofs as Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans and Vampires Suck comes the latest film mock titled The Starving Games and yep you guessed it it’s a parody of The Hunger Games and pretty much everything else that writing & directing team Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer can squeeze into 80mins – VERDICT the first thing to say about The Starving Games is at least it’s consistent with the below average garbage that Friedberg & Seltzer are churning out these days, like many I enjoyed 1996’s Spy Hard (directed by Jason Friedberg’s dad Rick) and possibly the first two Scary Movie films but since 2006’s Date Movie it’s been a down hill slide into the abyss of unfunny, messy parodies that rely on the actors slightly resembling the movie characters they mock or having a name that’s been twisted to sound like it’s original – overall The Starving Games is a movie full of badly written gags and way too much gross out-humor – the only positive in the film is Desperate Housewives actress Maiara Walsh who embraced the silliness and delivered a half decent performance – my advice to anybody young or old who are smitten with this style of humor is to check out the master Mel Brooks and his films such as Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein & Spaceballs it’s something I hope Friedberg & Seltzer do before undertaking on their spoof of the “Fast and Furious” racing movies titled Superfast they might even learn something….