Meet the Spartans

2008 "The bigger the hit, the harder they fall."
2.8| 1h24m| PG-13| en
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The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton). No one is safe when the Spartans take on the biggest icons in pop culture!

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Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.
Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.
lukeshulver Ah what to write - funny from beginning to end. Perhaps its the rehashing of Kevin Sorbo tongue kissing the hottie lead, or the relentless campness and mockery of trashy celebrity and product placement segways - who knows but it sure as hell made me chuckle. The best spoof movie since Flying High.
michaelant555 After reading these reviews I am left utterly speechless at how so many human being can be so cruel, heartless, and narcissistically deranged enough to give this a bad review. This a good spoof comedy worth at least six stars. If you see a review giving it one to three stars then you have to realize these are not good people. They are uptight morons with absolutely no sense of humour and no common decency. When you go to a theater to see a pantomime like Cinderella or Jack And The Beanstalk, etc, you know you're going to get a well acted production that follows the main story but with loads of zany pop culture and comedic extras thrown in - and this is exactly like that. It's a pantomime of 300 that keeps to the main story of the Spartans but incorporates loads of campy madness and fun around it. It's not really laugh out loud funny (maybe in one or two places) but it is entertaining and it is very well done. I will say, though, that you may not want to eat your dinner while watching this.
jake-law123 I hated literally everything about this film. I've never been a big Freidberg and Seltzer fan, but Epic Movie is a nostalgic guilty pleasure. This, on the other hand, is a painful monstrosity of human torture.There's no comedy in this film, I do not consider it a comedy. It does not, in the slightest, attempt to be anything besides vulgar, stupid, and horrible. I honestly don't think they're trying to be funny, because nothing is a joke, it's just a reference extravaganza. You have movie references, youtube references, celebrity references, random butts in your face, etc. It's short, but it feels like an eternity. No scene makes sense and doesn't try to be funny.This is if you let a 12 year old direct. Nothing clever, funny, or even humanely normal. It's just a 86 minutes of random out of nowhere stupidity. I can't think of anything else to say. It's simply unwatchable. I will kill myself if I ever have to watch this again. Complete waste of time, a damnation of mankind.
Lammasuswatch What can I say? How can a film be so unbelievably bad as this one is?Like other films in this franchise, "Meet the Spartans" was supposed to be a spoof on a particular film, with references to other movies or cultural references thrown in. In this case, the spoof object was "300", a cult film for some, a tedious pop video for others. I thought, just maybe "Meet the Spartans" may be more palatable than the pretentious "300", with some humorous spoofing added to the formula. I could not have been more wrong! "300" made its antecedent "300 Spartans" look like multi Academy Award material. And "Meet the Spartans" made "300" look like high art - a feat in itself!I didn't laugh a single time. I think laughing was supposed to be the point of it, but who knows? Indeed the thought processes, maturity, film-making skill and sense of direction of whoever was ultimately responsible for this dog's breakfast of a movie are not something I would like to investigate closely.In a film in which nothing could be said to be a high point, the really lowest point was an extended rap dancing sequence. (Don't bother asking what rap dancing was doing in this film!) This was an exercise in endurance - it just kept going on - and on - and on. And this sequence probably took up a tenth of the whole hour or so of storyline running time. Or it seemed like it did. But, I hear you say, the movie goes for 86 minutes! Well, after the end of the actual film storyline, the viewer gets to see (apparently all) the out-takes for another interminable period. Were these deemed too funny to be put in the film, or too unfunny, or too irrelevant? Your guess is as good as mine. The editor must have been barkingly high or dead drunk to have got through putting this film together.All I can say in conclusion is thank God I saw this film after taping it from free-to air television so I could watch it later. It allowed me to fast-forward past bits that got just too painful, and it meant that I never had to waste actual money on it. (Although I feel like sending the distributors a bill for my time spent and electricity expended, with an extra loading for having to work with noxious materials!) Not recommended! An outstanding candidate for the worst film I have ever seen. While the earlier movies in this franchise were often quite entertaining, the franchise is now clearly dead, and should be quietly buried for public health reasons.