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Meet the Spartans

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Meet the Spartans reviews
9
2.7 User Score:

Overwhelming dislike

Based on 11 critic reviews
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Based on 319 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy

Written by: Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer

Directed by: Aaron Seltzer
Jason Friedberg

Release Date:
Theatrical: January 25, 2008
DVD: June 3, 2008

Running Time: 84 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language and some comic violence

Starring Diedrich Bader, Kevin Sorbo, Emily Wilson, Method Man, Ken Davitian, Jim Piddock, Sean Maguire, and Greg Ellis

The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing by leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 - count 'em, 13! -- Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton). (20th Century Fox)

What The Critics Said

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58

Entertainment Weekly Clark Collis

Less classic Mel Brooks than middling "Best Week Ever."

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38

Boston Globe Mark Feeney

The best thing in Meet the Spartans is the swift kick in the bombast it delivers to the oh-no-not-us homoeroticism of "300."

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25

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The musical number that runs during the closing credits funnier than anything that precedes it, which isn't saying much.

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20

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

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.

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20

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

Overkill is what Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer do best: as the uncontested titans of the parody genre (with fingers in everything from the “Scary Movie” franchise to the more recent “Epic Movie”) they continue to prove that ridiculing other movies is much easier than making your own.

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20

LA Weekly Luke Y. Thompson

Meet the Spartans is a mild improvement over their "Epic Movie," which is like saying that a debilitating fever is more fun than appendicitis, but what’s shocking is how lazy it is, which is a shame for former UK child star/pop singer Sean Maguire, whose Gerard Butler impersonation is spot-on.

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10

Variety Joe Leydon

Lazy, lame and painfully unfunny, Meet the Spartans is yet another scrambled-genre parody.

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0

The Onion (A.V. Club) Steven Hyden

Meet The Spartans gamely alternates between unfunny gay jokes and violent pratfalls for a good 80 minutes, finding time for not one, but two musical dance numbers set to "I Will Survive."

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0

Village Voice Aaron Hillis

Witless, tasteless, formless spoof.

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0

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

Hey, guys, when you repurpose a disco hit to poke fun at gay men, not only do you look like assholes, you look like assholes who rip their jokes off of YouTube.

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0

Film Threat Felix Vasques Jr.

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.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 2.7 (out of 10) based on 319 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Rofl C. gave it a0:
An Immature, Unfunny ultimately epic fail of a movie. If you think its funny, congratulations you have the sense of humor of a 6th grader.

James K. gave it a0:
It almost brings me to tears that some people are giving this film anything more than 5/10 because it implies the movie has a degree of merit where as in reality it is one of the worst movies ever made. Some people here giving the film 9/10 and citing that people don't have a 'sense of humour', these people obviously can't grasp the concept there are higher forms of wit than fart jokes. Seriously anyone that has given this movie a good review must be mentally ill.

Movie Lover gave it a9:
It's interesting that most people gave this movie either the lowest or the highest rating. Anyway, the average so far is 2.7/10, which seems to show that keeping our sense of humour is as difficult as keeping our money these days.

Ashanti J. gave it a10:
Love this movie.... Super funny!!!! From begginning to end. Peoples that get all technical with movies--go kick rocks..!! This movie is great. It's funny. And it's a good laugh. Now don't get me wrong it can be called stupid or retarded... But in a positive way..not negative..... It's funny. Just plain retardedly funny.

Desmond L gave it a0:
I don't like this movie, unfunny, bad humor, a Persian is a Rapper, Worst movies in 21th century. 300 movies is better than this unfunny movies.

erik s gave it a10:
This is an immense film. i was laughing the whole way through. All the people who don't like it either don't have a sense of humor or are over 30. A must see for people wanting a good laugh.

Robert B gave it a1:
Absolutely excruciating to watch. The only laugable part of the movie was the man boobs joke. You must be mentally retarded to laugh at this so called comedy. They ate up pop culture and puked it back up and made a movie.

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