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- 2008
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
- 2008
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
Summary 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)
Directed By: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Written By: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
- 2008
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
- 2008
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
Meet the Spartans
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4.2
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Summary 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)
Directed By: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Written By: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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9% Mixed
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91% Negative
10 Reviews
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
9
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
91% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
Less classic Mel Brooks than middling "Best Week Ever."
The musical number that runs during the closing credits funnier than anything that precedes it, which isn't saying much.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 199 User Ratings
4.2
34% Positive
67 Ratings
67 Ratings
10% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
56% Negative
112 Ratings
112 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 199 User Ratings
4.2
34% Positive
67 Ratings
67 Ratings
10% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
56% Negative
112 Ratings
112 Ratings
amazing movie if you hate it... Screw you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
A la manière d'un Scary Movie, Spartatouille ne fait pas dans la dentelle (uniquement le slip en cuir à dire vrai) et se dédie entièrement -sauf quelques incartades télévisuelles ou autres sous-célébrités- à ce film à succès particulièrement baroque, 300, propice à tous les excès et partant, à la caricature la plus féroce...
C'est donc particulièrement débile, gras, vulgaire et au ras de la moquette... et une suite quasi-ininterrompue de conneries comme on peut s'en douter... Pourtant et contre toute attente, c'est globalement sensiblement meilleur qu'un Scary Movie -ou moins lamentable- et j'ai personnellement pas mal ri à pas mal de ces infâmes conneries que les Spartacouilles nous balancent n'importe où et n'importe comment.
On rit surtout au début et au milieu (non, ce n'est pas sale -quoique....) mais beaucoup moins vers la fin où la fatigue de la débilité se fait nettement ressentir. En tout cas, la grognasse Carmen s'est jointe à la fête et remplit certainement son office de chaudasse : on la sent (enfin) dans son élément et on voit bien (c'est écrit sur sa figure) que c'est une fille vulgaire.
Absurde et faisant feu de tout bois, cette pantalonnade sans pantalon qui ose tout est tout de même une sacrée surprise en soi :n'oublions pas que c'est de l'humour américain après tout.... Je l'ai vu quand il est sorti et viens de le revoir : l'impact est resté le même, la trivialité scatologique également ! A voir avec modération.
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At the first 5 minutes I thought this could at least be entertainingly bad but all hope was lost soon after. It is just a really bad movie. The jokes are mostly not funny, the humor is too vulgar and they overdid a lot of things. The movie itself is a parody of 300 which is based on a comic series which based on a romanticized version of the historical battle of Thermopylae. They added a lot of jabs to other movies and jokes about pop culture. Like I said it gets unbearable really fast. Hollywood lost the capability to make good or even decent parody movies long ago and this could be a low point. It was nominated for 5 golden raspberries and I was surprised it did not won. I would not recommend it even to people who enjoy bad movies. I give a 2/10 because there are worse movies out there.
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