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 CriticYou could teach a college course on what not to do in a comedy by showing Meet the Spartans.
01/25/08
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.
02/01/08
While there's enough comedic material there for as many as three somewhat tolerable minutes of MADtv, Meet The Spartans gamely alternates between unfunny gay jokes and violent pratfalls for a good 80 minutes.
01/26/08
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.
01/28/08
It aims to be a so-called spoof of 300 but only succeeds at being a commercial for idiocy.
01/27/08
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
Clocking in around 69 minutes total, Meet the Spartans is not a movie. All involved should feel slightly ashamed.
01/28/08
Dumb, raunchy comedy is a tired spoof attempt.
01/29/08
It's so bad even Carmen Electra should be embarrassed.
01/28/08
Meet the Spartans is a downtrodden cinematic vacuum—a sickening, derivative, shallow, condescending, utterly worthless piece of ....
01/25/08
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
It is so bad that when it introduces a running gag involving blurred upskirt shots, you can almost hear the actors just out of camera range trying to get them to move the blurs up high enough to hide their faces as well
01/25/08
Obviously, it's rubbish.
03/20/08
Top CriticThe result in Meet the Spartans is less classic Mel Brooks than middling Best Week Ever.
01/30/08
When the comedy revolution comes, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer will be the first ones shot.
01/30/08
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 mind-boggling to imagine that this witless, amateurish mess came from supposedly professional writers and directors.
01/28/08
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
Meet the Spartans can't even get its fart jokes right. How incredibly sad is that?
02/04/08
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