Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Paul Magne Haakonsen This spoof was based mostly on "300", although there were some other references throughout the movie.There was a good amount of laughs actually to be had here, as well as some rather hilarious scenes.I will say that they actually had good props and costumes for the movie, which really helped lift up the movie to a different level of enjoyment. There are lots and lots of spoofs out there, and not all of them can pull a spoof off quite as well as "Meet the Spartans" did.And the cast were doing good jobs with their given roles. There were some nice talents to the cast list, most of which I hadn't seen before. But it was Kevin Sorbo, after all, that was the pulling point of the movie and he did carry it quite well.If you enjoy these spoof type of movies then "Meet the Spartans" is definitely one that is quite well watching.

hoseinnejad25 I'm a Persian/Iranian and I think the movie 300 was extremely racist. I'm not a historian and I'm not sure if the story behind the movie was true or not but the way it presented ancient Persia and Persians was offensive and not true. I think this movie is so hilarious and funny. I recommend this to every Iranian who was upset about the actual movie just like me. To know that not all Americans think about other countries like that. Personally this is not the type of cinema that I'm interested; but if one of the purposes of cinema is to tell people not to take life so serious, this movie done its job well.

burnadrenaline When I started watching this movie, I knew I had entered a whole new level of b-movie fandom, because my tolerance for garbage had to have leveled up a lot to deal with this one. To be fair, I haven't seen 300 but I have taken an Ancient Greek and Roman history class so I know what happened at the battle. Where do I begin? One of the early gags involves a Chihuahua licking dog food off of someone's unmentionables. We see Leonidas meet Carmen Electra's Character and an attempt at a humorous take on the childhood of Spartan Children. This part was not great, but it didn't gross me out at least. As they advance to the battle, we learn that one of the Spartans is gay. We also learn that they make fun of Paris Hilton in this movie. I don't have a problem with that per se, but the way they did it was pretty stupid. Anyway, the troops meet each other and the battle takes place with a series of gags. I didn't laugh once watching this movie, I'll just interject that here. There is a dance battle scene that takes forever, and a "Deal or No Deal" gag. I think the guy with his shirt off from Persia was supposed to be funny as well. Anyway, spoiler alert, they find the goat path. What an awful movie. The gross "hump" gag, a stupid dance battle, and it seems way longer than it is. For serious cinematic masochists, watch this to toughen up before you pop in "Disaster Movie" , for everybody else, don't let curiosity get the better of you, it is exactly what you would expect it to be.

TheMovieDoctorful After sitting through "Date Movie", "Epic Movie", "Disaster Movie" and "Vampires Suck", it has become beyond obvious that the duo of Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg deserve every criticism they have received. Their films are unfunny, unintelligent and unbelievably painful. There's nothing I can say about them that would make their work any more entertaining or any less stupid. So what do I think of their "300" spoof "Meet the Spartans?" Well..."Meet the Spartans" is Seltzer and Friedberg's best movie by FAR. Guess what? It still sucks. What saves "Meet the Spartans"...Okay, um...Maybe "saves" is the wrong word. Uh...Anyways, what makes "Meet the Spartans" better and funnier than any other Seltzer and Friedberg film is that it has an EXCELLENT comedic cast. All of the actors chosen in this film seem to be chosen because they actually fit the roles and have tons of comedic presence instead of merely being chosen for star power. Kevin Sorbo has some very funny moments, Ken Davitian of "Borat" has good comedic presence and I actually found the whole concept of Diedrich Bader's character "Traitero" (A clever and actually really funny jab at action movies which make it incredibly obvious who the villain is the moment he or she steps on screen) quite humorous. That said, Sean Maguire gives by far the best comedic performance in the movie. This guy is given a script that gives him almost NO comedic possibilities and can truly turn out some hilarious moments. There are multiple scenes in this movie that would have completely and utterly failed in any actor's hands but his own. Seeing all these actors trying so hard to make this movie work despite such an atrocious script not only makes me like all of them more, it makes me hate Seltzer and Friedberg more for not utilizing their obvious talents better.The biggest problem with Seltzer and Friedberg is that they don't view their movies as actual "films" per say as much as giant feature length comedic skits. Like all of their movies, "Meet the Spartans" suffers from this problem. Because of this, the film literally doesn't go 20 seconds without a joke. Joke after joke after joke is launched at the audience, and many of them feel rushed and without effort. It was like Seltzer and Friedberg just wrote down the first jokes that came into their minds without reading them over, fleshing them out or even double checking if they fit into context. And the toilet humor...Dear God, the toilet humor. The toilet humor here is so stunningly unfunny it could sink even an otherwise excellent comedy.And if the toilet humor doesn't hurt your intelligence, then the constant pop culture references out of left field most certainly will. Apparently, Seltzer and Friedberg are people who think that a Spartan elder inspecting a baby Shrek is funny. No context by the way, the elder just inspects a baby and it happens to be Shrek, complete with a Scottish accent. If the film is extra cruel, it will combine its toilet humor and reference humor into some of the most unfunny scenes in the movie (I cringed HARD when a cat took a crap on Traitero's face after he randomly turned into Sandman)Like I implied earlier, there ARE funny scenes in this movie, saved by strong comedic performances rather than an even remotely intelligent script. The "Deal or No Deal" parody, Leonidas speaking to the Prophets about his unintentionally homo-erotic battle strategy and Xerces revealing his blue screen as a secret weapon to create more soldiers are all legitimately funny scenes. Easily the funniest scenes I've ever watched in a Seltzer and Friedberg movie, but that's really not saying anything at all.So yeah, "Meet the Spartans" is a terrible comedy. For most directors, this would easily be the worst thing they ever created. But for Seltzer and Friedberg, this is pretty much their magnum opus, and almost certainly the best you're ever gonna get from these two morons. At the very least it only made me cringe a few times, whereas I cringed pretty much every 30 seconds at "Date Movie" or "Disaster Movie."