Quartile rating: 4/10 · 1 rating
Each year, drunk people are selected to participate in torturous games the morning after a big night out. There's no sunglasses, no water, and no headache medicine. "The Hungover Games," a film that manages to merge the premises of both "The Hunger Games" and "The Hangover" and throw in references to "Ted," "Django Unchained," "The Lord of the Rings," "Carrie," "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and whatever else crossed the writers' fevered brains during the probably very drunken "development process."
A lazy mash-up parody that blends The Hunger Games and The Hangover with a scattershot heap of pop-culture references, The Hungover Games offers little beyond its gimmick premise. The plot is essentially nonexistent — a thin scaffolding for cheap gags — and the ending resolves nothing with any satisfaction. Acting is serviceable at best, the kind of broad mugging typical of low-budget parody fare. Cinematography is functional but uninspired. Novelty scores marginally for the specific mashup angle, but the execution is so formulaic and derivative of the Scary Movie school of parody that it can't earn much credit. Overall a bottom-tier entry even within the parody genre.