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Meet the Spartans
20th Century Fox

Meet the Spartans reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 9 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
2.6 out of 10
based on 11 reviews
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MPAA 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)


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
 
DIRECTED BY: Aaron Seltzer
Jason Friedberg
 
RELEASE DATE: DVD: June 3, 2008 
Theatrical: January 25, 2008 
RUNNING TIME: 84 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

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

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 2.6 (out of 10) based on 306 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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.

Redwolf 2k gave it a0:
I had promised myself after seeing the trailers that i would not watch this movie...ever. Well, one rainy boring afternoon I caved and decided to download it and let me say I am glad no one got my money for this movie. When people go and see movies like Meet the Spartans and Date Movie etc. they are telling hollywood that they approve of it's bottom barrel swill being poured out every 4-5 months when they need to make a quick buck. The pop-culture references are well overdone, almost all the jokes drag on and all of them are unfunny. The fact that this has received reviews of 10 by people who honestly believe this is how a good parody movie is made, just shows me how MTV has dumb down this generation.

Ashley R. gave it an8:
Some very funny parts, some sketches do drag though.

Diego L. gave it a0:
Terrible. It's not funny, rude and disgusting. Watch "300", the original, and enjoy it. This is ofensive.

Roger P gave it a0:
I haven't seen this movie yet. you've all spoiled it for me. the rating of 0 is for all you spoil sports. can't you at least wait for everyone to see the movie before you start trashing it? I'm very disappointed and i don't mind telling you.

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