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
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02/04/08
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.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Feb 28, 2008 Wide
US 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)... [More]
Starring: Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Reviews for Meet the Spartans
Top CriticDon't expect anything of depth and you won't be disappointed by this predigested pabulum.
01/26/08
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.
01/30/08
What's the point of making a parody that's dumber than the stuff it parodies?
01/25/08
I'm moving to Europe.
01/29/08
It's so bad even Carmen Electra should be embarrassed.
01/28/08
Obviously, it's rubbish.
03/20/08
Top CriticYou only have to wait 5 seconds into the movie to get the first vomit joke, and if that doesn't drive you out of the theater and on your way to see Cloverfield again, nothing will.
01/25/08
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.
01/25/08
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!
07/22/08
Meet the Spartans can't even get its fart jokes right. How incredibly sad is that?
02/04/08
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.
01/25/08
The result in Meet the Spartans is less classic Mel Brooks than middling Best Week Ever.
01/30/08
Meet the Spartans is a downtrodden cinematic vacuum—a sickening, derivative, shallow, condescending, utterly worthless piece of ....
01/25/08
When the comedy revolution comes, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer will be the first ones shot.
01/30/08
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...
01/30/08
It's mind-boggling to imagine that this witless, amateurish mess came from supposedly professional writers and directors.
01/28/08
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.
01/25/08
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.
01/25/08
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the team behind Meet the Spartans, prove that ridiculing other movies is much easier than making your own.
01/25/08
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