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Meet the Spartans (2008)

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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.

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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

PG-13, 1 hr. 23 min.

Comedy

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Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

Jun 3, 2008

$38.0M

20th Century Fox

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All Critics (48) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (49) | DVD (5)

The result in Meet the Spartans is less classic Mel Brooks than middling Best Week Ever.

January 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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I'm moving to Europe.

January 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comments (3)
Village Voice
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It's so bad even Carmen Electra should be embarrassed.

January 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comments (2)
Detroit News
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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.

January 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
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Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the team behind Meet the Spartans, prove that ridiculing other movies is much easier than making your own.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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Lazy, lame and painfully unfunny.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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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.

July 14, 2011 Full Review Source: Digital Spy | Comment
Digital Spy

Because this movie was written for 10-year-olds, it assumes that those 10-year-olds are the stupidest 10-year-olds alive.

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com | Comment
Movies.com

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.

February 10, 2009 Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com | Comments (2)
MovieCrypt.com

While still not a grand work of art, Meet the Spartans improves upon the formula established in the earlier parodies of Friedberg and Seltzer.

September 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | Comment
Oscar Guy

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!

July 22, 2008 Full Review | Comment
Sin Magazine

This tired spoof of 300 is ostensibly a movie parody but almost all the references are ripped from TV reality shows, television commercials and celebrity scandals.

June 16, 2008 Full Review Source: MSN.com | Comment
MSN.com

Don't expect anything of depth and you won't be disappointed by this predigested pabulum. Mental bubblegum for the brain whose cinematic taste lasts only about as long as the viewing.

May 30, 2008 Full Review Source: EURWeb | Comment (1)
EURWeb

A bizarre, leering orgy of celebrity crotches, lowbrow horny gay buffoons in leather, moronic gladiator mayhem, and too-much-information cascading bodily fluids galore.

May 29, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

A bizarre, leering orgy of celebrity crotches, lowbrow horny gay buffoons in leather, moronic gladiator mayhem, and too-much-information cascading bodily fluids galore.

May 29, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

Besides the few chuckles I had, the movie was just dreadfully bad.

May 24, 2008 Full Review Source: WJFK-FM (CBS Radio) | Comment
WJFK-FM (CBS Radio)

everybody should be ashamed

April 9, 2008 Comment

Obviously, it's rubbish.

March 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment (1)
Empire Magazine

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

February 24, 2008 Full Review | Comment
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

...couldn't get a laugh from a hyena.

February 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

Meet the Spartans can't even get its fart jokes right. How incredibly sad is that?

February 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

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

February 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | Comment
Dark Horizons

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.

February 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

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.

January 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Slate | Comments (6)
Slate

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...

January 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Meet the Spartans

The piece of cinematic diarrhoea that is "Meet the Spartans" was not worth the effort it took to make this review. This is quite possibly the only movie i've seen where i've turned it off before I even got half way into the film. Looking back on the experience I wish I had never even started. I remember

November 30, 2011
Michael M.
Michael Miller

Super Reviewer

I'd like to give the directors for this a hard, facial bitchslap. Why? MEET THE SPARTANS wasn't just any old terrible movie. It was an unbelievably failed attempt to mash SCARY MOVIE with the Battle of Thermopylae. I have not even seen 300, the film which this parodies, but even an idiot can tell that this was a

September 8, 2011
spielberg00
Alexander Diminiano

Super Reviewer

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