--- title: Honest Hunger Games Trailer: Parody of Catching Fire Movie Preview description: The funny people at Screen Junkies have spoofed another film for their Honest Trailers series canonical: https://time.com/17493/honest-trailer-hunger-games-catching-fire/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-10T11:00:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:37.299Z og:title: Honest Hunger Games Trailer: Parody of Catching Fire Movie Preview og:description: The funny people at Screen Junkies have spoofed another film for their Honest Trailers series og:url: https://time.com/17493/honest-trailer-hunger-games-catching-fire/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5128cdf4caf3091/6986849dadae441408541df2/screen-shot-2014-03-09-at-4-13-32-pm.png?branch=production&width=930&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 930 og:image:height: 523 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-03-09 at 4.13.32 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Honest Hunger Games Trailer: Parody of Catching Fire Movie Preview twitter:description: The funny people at Screen Junkies have spoofed another film for their Honest Trailers series twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5128cdf4caf3091/6986849dadae441408541df2/screen-shot-2014-03-09-at-4-13-32-pm.png?branch=production&width=930&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's a Much More Honest (And Hilarious) Trailer for _Hunger Games: Catching Fire_ > Sponsored content. 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This time, it’s _Hunger Games: Catching Fire_, the “only film about starving children with its own delicious sandwich tie-in.” (Cue Subway advertisement.) The spoof trailer for the _Hunger Games_ sequel takes us back to the fictional nation of Panem, “where it’s taken 75 years for people to get a little bit upset about the annual child murdering competition.” Really, nothing is immune to snark here: the fact that Jennifer Lawrence’s character, Katniss, has to choose between the totally hunky Gale and the totally incompetent Peeta, the fact that there are always a handle of tributes killed off before you even learn their names, the fact that the main characters ride around in a train the whole time even though flying hovercrafts exist, or America’s continued insistence that Jennifer Lawrence is just a totally down-to-Earth normal girl like the rest of us. Of course, the trailer also riffs on the fact that the _Hunger Games_ franchise is determined to drag itself out as long as possible. 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