i thought this review was an interesting read. I saw the first film but not the second.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/12/will-hunger-games-spark-revolution-20131211135426971134.html
"I want Hunger Games to stir up a revolution," said Donald Sutherland, who played the despotic president Coriolanus Snow in the first two films of the saga…Sure, we root for the oppressed, while sipping soft drinks and eating popcorn in the comfort of our movie theatres. But will the movie really make revolutionaries of us all?…"