Movie Review – Meet The Spartans

Director – Jason Friedberg.
Cast – Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitan, Kevin Sorbo, Diedrich Bader, Method Man and Nicole Parker.

Meet The Spartans is a parody of 300. There you go. At this point you might expect me to say that if you liked Epic Movie, Date Movie or the Scary Movie’s you will like this. But I can’t and I won’t. Nobody could possibly like Meet The Spartans. Even if you are obsessed with Epic Movie, have Date Movie posters for wallpaper and can recite every word of the Scary Movie’s you could not possibly like Meet The Spartans. There should be sponsored Meet The Spartans-a-thons and even then I can’t imagine the charities making much money. This is a BAD movie, maybe the worst movie.

Meet The Spartans stars such Z listers as Carmen Electra, Kevin Sorbo and Method Man and quite surprisingly our hero Leonidas is played by Sean Maguire. If that name sounds familiar you might remember him from Eastenders in the mid nineties. How he has ended up here is a mystery but one thing is for sure, his agent must absolutely hate him. The plot, which of course is the same as 300, is actually incidental to the main purpose of the movie which is to shoe horn into the running time as many contemporary and pop culture references as possible. It seems that the purpose of these references is not to be at all comedic but merely to be identifiable.

The cheap attempts at humour are blood boilingly grating and each “joke” is rehashed throughout the movie many times. The whole thing is tired, old, stunningly lazy and horribly unfunny. Passion Of The Christ is a laugh riot compared to this. My favourite genre is comedy and I find that even in the poorest of comedies there are still some laugh-out-loud moments but not here. Even Run, Fat Boy Run seems Oscar Wilde-esque compared to this.

I couldn’t laugh once. I couldn’t even laugh at it. Famine is funnier than Meet The Spartans and the best thing about is it’s running time of 74 minutes.