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Meet the Spartans
Overwhelming dislike
Based on 11 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 313 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)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Clark Collis
Less classic Mel Brooks than middling "Best Week Ever."
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The musical number that runs during the closing credits funnier than anything that precedes it, which isn't saying much.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Variety Joe Leydon
Lazy, lame and painfully unfunny, Meet the Spartans is yet another scrambled-genre parody.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 2.7 (out of 10) based on 313 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
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.
David K gave it a0:
Awfull it was about as funny as the plague. Crap actors crap actresses and crap writers. Be ashamed at this poor work. Nobody above 15 would give this anymore than a 1.
Richard A gave it a0:
I didn't watch all of it, because I actually have some remnants of a life. But what I did watch made the "THIS IS SPARTA!" joke lose all funniness, made me uncomfortable around my parents and made me want to cry as my slowly liquefying brain drooled from my ear. I'd say this is typical American humour, all gay jokes and pop culture references, even American humour has a one up on this garbage. I'm surprised these people can't take a hint.
