Catching Fire, directed by Francis Lawrence (taking the reins from Gary Ross), picks up exactly where the first movie left off. Jennifer Lawrence's earthy enchantress, Katniss Everdeen, is just figuring that out in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second entry in the film franchise based on Collins's bodaciously successful novels. Both Stephenie Meyer's Twilight and Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games sagas invert Jan and Dean's Surf City ideal: two boys for every girl! That ought to double the fun, but really it only multiplies the headaches. No longer do the genre's bright young women sit around waiting for one Mr. It says something that two of the biggest sensations in young-adult literature over the past ten years have featured heroines who keep more than one guy on the line at a time.
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