The Hunger Games Revisited: Part 2– “Catching Fire”
In what has to be the biggest blockbuster franchise since Twilight and Harry Potter, in this sequel to the first Hunger Games film (see my April 8, 2012 review–“The Hunger Games”–Our “Harry Potter”), the post-apocalyptic Panem is still a hell on earth. Former victors are forced to participate in a Quarter Quell, marking the 75th anniversary of the Hunger Games.
Survival through fake social relationships which the victors all know will end in death is still the tense spine of the narrative. In “Catching Fire” the means to survival grows darker...