Don't expect anything of depth and you won't be disappointed by this predigested pabulum.
Meet the Spartans (2008)
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Reviews Counted:46
Fresh:1
Rotten:45
Average Rating:1.9/10
Consensus: A tired, unfunny, offensive waste of time, Meet the Spartans scrapes the bottom of the cinematic barrel.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual content throughout, language and some comic violence.
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jan 25, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $38,011,770
Synopsis: Writers/producers/directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (DATE MOVIE, EPIC MOVIE) use the film 300 as the basis for their latest spoof. Born to be the perfect Spartan, Leonidas (Sean Magiure)... Writers/producers/directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (DATE MOVIE, EPIC MOVIE) use the film 300 as the basis for their latest spoof. Born to be the perfect Spartan, Leonidas (Sean Magiure) faces numerous trials en route to becoming a man, including a face-off with the penguin from HAPPY FEET. Once he has proven himself, Leonidas not only becomes king, but also marries superhot (and slightly slutty) Margot (Carmen Electra). When Leonidas learns that Persia's King Xerxes (Ken Davitian, BORAT) plans to make Sparta his own, he has his captain (Kevin Sorbo, HERCULES) recruit Sparta's finest and prepare them for battle against invading Persian forces. Unfortunately, that amounts to only 13 half-naked men with painted-on abs who literally prance to their destination. To make matters worse, Spartan councilman Traitoro (Diedrich Bader) is, well, a traitor. Still, Leonidas and his men face their enemy in battle, riffing on STOMP THE YARD, GHOST RIDER, TRANSFORMERS, and numerous other films along the way, as well as the video game GRAND THEFT AUTO. Freidberg and Seltzer poke fun at virtually every recent cultural phenomenon and pop culture personality, including Britney Spears, Kevin Federline, Paris Hilton, DANCING WITH THE STARS, AMERICAN IDOL, and DEAL OR NO DEAL. Even UGLY BETTY makes an appearance. Be prepared for an abundance of gross-out humor, spurts of bodily fluids, some sexual innuendo, and multiple jokes about homosexuality. Stick around after the musical finale as the credits start to roll: the deleted scenes prove to be some of the most amusing in the film. [More]
Starring: Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo
Starring: Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo, Diedrich Bader, Method Man
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Screenwriter: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Producer: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Peter Safran
Composer: Christopher Lennertz
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Release:
Jun 16, 2009
DVD Features:
- NTSC
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
- Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
- Disc 1: Side A: MEET THE SPARTANS - Full Frame - 1.33
Additional Release Material:
Trailers:
- 1. Forced Trailers
- 2. Digital Copy Trailer
- 3. The Onion Movie
- 4. Burn Notice - Season 1
- 5. The Beast with a Billion Backs
- 6. Meet The Spartans
- Disc 1: Side B: MEET THE SPARTANS - Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Additional Release Material:
Trailers:
- 1. Forced Trailers
- 2. Digital Copy Trailer
- 3. The Onion Movie
- 4. Burn Notice - Season 1
- 5. The Beast with a Billion Backs
- 6. Meet The Spartans
Reviews for Meet the Spartans
Until the mainstream produces some films undeserving of idiot violation, the idiot violation represented by Meet the Spartans -- a Xerox of absolute zero -- will be par for the course.
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!
Meet the Spartans can't even get its fart jokes right. How incredibly sad is that?
OK, I get it now: Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg are agents of Satan himself, and their recruitment video is Meet the Spartans...a new low even for these diseased buffoons.
The result in Meet the Spartans is less classic Mel Brooks than middling Best Week Ever.
Meet the Spartans is a downtrodden cinematic vacuuma sickening, derivative, shallow, condescending, utterly worthless piece of ....
When the comedy revolution comes, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer will be the first ones shot.
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...
It's mind-boggling to imagine that this witless, amateurish mess came from supposedly professional writers and directors.
Writer-directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer basically reprise the tired formula from their earlier efforts, which is to throw in as many pop culture references as possible to cover up the lack of any real wit.
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
What's the point of making a parody that's dumber than the stuff it parodies?
It’s only about an hour and a quarter long, although a closing dance number stretches it out another few minutes. Brevity, it turns out, is also the soul of stupidity.
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the team behind Meet the Spartans, prove that ridiculing other movies is much easier than making your own.
Frequently pauses to shower someone with vomit, pus, urine or excrement. It should be called Meet the Bodily Fluids.
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