Updated 08:00 PM EDT, Wed, Apr 24, 2024

'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part 2' Trailer, Release Date & Review: Final Film Too Dark for Young Audiences?

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The conclusion of "The Hunger Games" franchise is finally coming and critics believe it would be might be a bit 'too dark' for young audiences.

Based on Suzanne Collins' best-selling dystopian trilogy "The Hunger Games," the fourth and final movie starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen is expected to portray the last battle between the Districts and the Capitol.

In bookstores, the post-apocalyptic world that Collins created has been categorized under the "Young Adults/Teens" section but critics believe that the final movie adapting it may not be advisable for the youth.

According to a review of the movie conducted by Entertainment Weekly, parents may want to reconsider having their teenaged children watch the final film in the franchise considering the amount of blood and gore involved.

Based on the review, the film follows Katniss and a propaganda unit in a quest to film footages in the outskirts of the Capitol to raise the spirits of the rebels to pursue their endeavor in bringing down President Snow and his city of spoiled citizens.

Being only a symbol of the revolution as their 'Mockingjay,' Katniss and her crew armed with cameras and a script soon find themselves in booby trapped buildings where they encounter mutated creatures called "mutts."

Katniss and her team are suddenly attached by mutts described by EW as "a slithering mass of mutants with boiled-frog skin and barracuda teeth."

"It's a good question, and one parents will have to answer at their own discretion," the review pondered, wondering how the youth would be able to handle such terrifying scenes.

It further analyzed that while Collins' books did indeed tackle issues that are not for young adults, it remained "inside a balanced moral universe" by presenting a female protagonist who is both smart and complicated.

The review moved on to appraising the first two movies which have surprisingly presented the violence in the books in a manner that their young audience could still handle.

The two-part installment "Mockingjay," however, may have went too far considering the amount of political power struggles and deaths it presented, making it "less like teen entertainment."

Variety, on the other hand, believes that the final movie in the franchise followed the right course when it "stayed true to its source" as the franchise dips deeper into a darker world in the hopes of recovering from the 20 percent slide in the domestic box office incurred by "Mockingjay-Part 1."

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