Starring: Diedrich Bader, Ken Davitian, Jim Piddock, Phil Morris, Kevin Sorbo Directed by: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer Binding: DVD Published: 2008-06-03
History has never been so... hysterical! Prepare to fight for honor, fight for glory, and fight back tears of laughter watching this gut-busting spoof comedy that skewers pop culture's biggest icons.
In Meet the Spartans, the heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 - count'em, 13! - warriors to defend their homeland against the invading Persians, whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton.
You won't find a funnier Greek war film even if you live to see 300!
With Meet the Spartans, the creators of Date Movie lampoon penguins, Paris Hilton, American Idol, Britney Spears, Dancing with the Stars, Stomp the Yard, Brangelina, Lindsay Lohan, product placement, Sylvester Stallone, Transformers, and pretty much every other obvious target that's emerged since they made their last flick, Epic Movie. The main subject of mockery is 300, the visual-effects laden Greek warrior movie, the relentless homoeroticism of which is not-so-subtly pointed out with a mixture of scatology, phallic humor, painted-on six-pack abs, disco songs, blows to the groin, and spitting--lots and lots and lots of spitting. There's nothing remotely clever about Meet the Spartans, and even fans of pop-culture cuisinarts like Scary Movie may feel the genre is losing its oomph, but if you're looking for a shotgun blast of lowbrow gags, this is it. Along for the ride are Sean Maguire (The Class), Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), Ken Davitian (Borat), Diedrich Bader (Napoleon Dynamite), and Carmen Electra, without whom no movie of this kind would be complete. The only person who emerges with any credibility is comedienne Nicole Parker (Mad TV), who does a pretty spot-on impression of Ellen DeGeneres. --Bret Fetzer
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
I killed brain cells watching this...:
I'm up for some ridiculous humor any time after a long day's work. I bought this believing it to get me in a light happy mood. This movie didn't even get me to smile. The jokes were more than predictable, in the way that I knew where the punch line was going long before they even started saying it. Actually the movie seemed to sense my complete boredom and started throwing cheap bathroom humor and vulgar things in hopes that I would keep my attention to it. Many scenes I felt didn't even... more info
Not bad!:
I'm going to have to agree with most of the previous reviewers in saying that this is indeed not the best of films compared to other spoofs out there, though by no means is it a flop.
Meet the Spartans follows in the footsteps of Epic Movie, Date Movie, Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th, and the Scary Movie series, in being a parody of several films including Shrek, Borat, and the Transformers among others as well shows like American Idol though as the title implies it does focus on... more info
Sort of Funny the First Watch, Not the Second:
I saw this when it first came out. I loved Frank Miller's "300" and I love parodies of things I like. I laughed quite a bit the first time I saw this movie, mainly that Sean Maguire looked a lot like Leonidas but with braces. The homosexual overtones were extremely funny. Plus, having Cameron Electra in your movie as the 'hottie' is never a bad thing. But the movie really comes to life the second watch, when you realise the movie wasn't as funny as you thought the first time. The plot goes along the... more info
Boring, nothing new...:
Nothing good to see in this movie, I know it is supoused to be stupid but is too much... a waste of time!
