Hunger Games Review (age 10+)

Review

           
      by Aaron Hamilton,Seán Weldon and Daragh McFadden 

This report centers on the first book/movie and gives you a summary,review and parental info.Thank you


The Hunger Games is book(later turned into a movie) written by Suzanne Collins,which centers around a girl(Katniss Everdeen,16)competing in an annual fight to
the death known as The Hunger Games in which only 1 survives.It exists as a result of a war which happened 74 years prior which was caused by a group of people from 13 towns known as districts which was ruled by a city known as the capitol which they rebelled against.Afterwards the rebels lost and the 13th district was destroyed and all districts had to give up 1 boy and 1 girl between 12 and 18 to fight in The Hunger Games once a year.After her sister(Prim Everdeen,13)was chosen for the 74th Hunger Games Katniss volunteers to take Prim's place in The Games along with a boy Peeta who was also chosen to be in The Games.

We think the book deserves a good 7/10 for how imaginative it is,how every character has a different personality and how you can clearly understand the story.While the movie may be one of the only movies that is better than it's book with an 9/10 it's almost as if it was meant to be a movie but was made into a book for some unknown reason.There is only 1 thing that stopped this movie from getting a 10,which was the point that their was very little of the story explained and some characters go unnamed for a little while.Otherwise both the book and the movie are very good with minor differences like unneeded conversations,etc.


Based on our thoughts and the thoughts on other websites the movie would be suitable for 10 years + It is quite violent but not as violent as some make it.You only see the bodies of 3 or 4 victims and the only really violent scene is that at the beginning of the games where 7 tributes are killed in 2 minutes but you don't see any of the stabbed body parts of the victims you only see their killer.Another scene is at the end of the games when one of the badder tributes is bitten to death by dogs but you don't see his body you only see the dogs surrounding him and him screaming.There is no scary scenes in the movie,just Katniss screaming a few times because somebody dies.But I think the one thing that may make the movie unsuitable for a child is how emotionally moving it is,espescially at one certain death of a character.

Once on our thoughts and the thoughts of other websites the book is recommended for ages 10+.It is more descriptive of the violence but of course it's a book so it's visible in your mind.It has pretty much the exact same scenes as the movie but it is described to be much more violent.

Anyway,thank you for reading this review.