'Hunger Games' Parody Trailer Goes Viral (Video)

8:14 PM PDT 8/21/2012 by Aaron Couch

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Peeta's cake decorating skills, Katniss' obsession with trees and Gale's hotness are skewered.

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A video from Honest Trailers, which purports to advertise films as they really are, takes issue with Katniss’ (Jennifer Lawrence) ability to outwit other tributes by hanging out in trees and Peeta’s (Josh Hutcherson) ridiculously detailed cake decorating skills, and asks why the "much hotter" Gale (Liam Hemsworth) is not Katniss’ first choice.

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Amassing more than a quarter of a million plays, the parody trailer mercilessly raises a slew of additional questions moviegoers may have been asking themselves, including plot points from Suzanne Collins' novel that didn't make it to the big screen. (Where's the avox?)

Watch the video below.