While fans were hitting the theaters in large enough numbers to put the latest “Hunger Games” atop the box office for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the folks at YouTube channel Bad Lip Reading were releasing their own unique take on the previous installment of the franchise.
The Bad Lip Reading take on “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” featured even more singing than “Mockingjay – Part 1,” but Jennifer Lawrence and the rest of the cast sounded even worse.
The channel was born in 2011 as a way to spoof music videos, but quickly expanded to include media, television and movie clips. Clips are redubbed with new voices and new words that are simply chosen to match the movement of the lips, usually leading to complete and total nonsense.
The first “Hunger Games” Bad Lip Reading video was so well-received, the stars of the popular film franchise even count among its fans. Elizabeth Banks wrote on her blog, “Bad Lip Reading is awesome. I was introduced to it by none other than Jennifer Lawrence. Yup — she saw this, people. And she laughed. And so did I. A lot.”
Bad Lip Reading videos cannot be described, they simply must be experienced.
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1” is in theaters now.