Meet the Spartans (2008)
Average Rating: 1.9/10
Reviews Counted: 48
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 47
A tired, unfunny, offensive waste of time, Meet the Spartans scrapes the bottom of the cinematic barrel.
Average Rating: 2.4/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 9
A tired, unfunny, offensive waste of time, Meet the Spartans scrapes the bottom of the cinematic barrel.
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From the creators of Scary Movie and Date Movie comes this tongue-in-cheek parody of the sword-and-sandal epics, dubbed Meet the Spartans. The 20th Century Fox production was written and directed by the filmmaking team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Sure, Leonidas may have nothing more than a cape and some leather underwear to protect him from the razor-sharp swords of his Persian enemies, but that won't stop the brave leader and his team of 13 warriors from defending their beloved
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Sean MaGuire
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Carmen Electra
Queen Margo -
Ken Davitian
Xerxes -
Kevin Sorbo
Captain -
Diedrich Bader
Traitoro -
Method Man
Persian Emissary -
Jareb Dauplaise
Dilio -
Travis Van Winkle
Sonio -
Phil Morris
Messenger -
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The result in Meet the Spartans is less classic Mel Brooks than middling Best Week Ever.
Top CriticI'm moving to Europe.
It's so bad even Carmen Electra should be embarrassed.
It's a MADtv or Saturday Night Live sketch dressed up in feature-length clothing. It's way too much of an OK thing. And the way-too-much-ness goes on and on.
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the team behind Meet the Spartans, prove that ridiculing other movies is much easier than making your own.
Lazy, lame and painfully unfunny.
Meet The Spartans? For those unlucky enough to be lured into the cinema, there's every chance you'll be wanting to meet your maker instead.
Because this movie was written for 10-year-olds, it assumes that those 10-year-olds are the stupidest 10-year-olds alive.
What does it say about a film with an hour running time that has twenty minutes of outtakes after the credits to reach theatrical length? Very little that's positive.
While still not a grand work of art, Meet the Spartans improves upon the formula established in the earlier parodies of Friedberg and Seltzer.
It's not very good at all, but I did manage to laugh at some moments of sudden pratfalls and comic violence, but the talkshow reference mentality has to go!
A bizarre, leering orgy of celebrity crotches, lowbrow horny gay buffoons in leather, moronic gladiator mayhem, and too-much-information cascading bodily fluids galore.
Besides the few chuckles I had, the movie was just dreadfully bad.
everybody should be ashamed
Obviously, it's rubbish.
This is supposed to be a spoof of '300.' But 'Meet the Spartans' isn't a satire of anything. It's just a bunch of body-function-based skits that randomly feature scenes from movies and television shows -- and not a single one of them is laugh-inducing
...couldn't get a laugh from a hyena.
Meet the Spartans can't even get its fart jokes right. How incredibly sad is that?
One of the most painfully bad comedies I've ever had to endure, and I've seen the collected works of Martin Lawrence, Tim Allen, Ice Cube AND Cedric the Entertainer
To devote an entire feature film to making fun of another film's universally acknowledged gay subtext seems to me good cause for said filmmakers to have a sit-down with their muse, because somebody's been sleeping on the job.
This was the worst movie I've ever seen, so bad that I hesitate to label it a 'movie' and thus reflect shame upon the entire medium of film.
It's rare that a movie makes me ill these days, and it's rare that I can see a movie and hate the people behind it with such abhorrence, but "Meet the Spartans" rises to the challenge...
When the comedy revolution comes, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer will be the first ones shot.
Messrs. Friedberg and Seltzer make their annual locust-like descent on theaters leaving a trail of ruthlessly murdered brain cells in their wake.
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Also the jokes are not just abstract and meaningless they do blend with the main idea and follow the story or match the sequences, these modern spoofs are just too ridiculous. As for Carmen Electra...getting old now and Maguire wasn't too bad actually, beats his 'Eastenders' shit and he does look the part amazingly!.