I am certainly in the minority but this movie just dumped all of the 90-2000s pop culture in to the death pit. People who have actually seen 300 can enjoy it to the fullest! Plus if they have enough knowledge of the references that has been brought in the mix with ancient Greece.It's 2018 and I have watched it again! It certainly stood out to be one of the best parodies of all times, IMO (besides scary movie series). P.S: Carmen Electra is drop dead hot!

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.

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."

This is another movie spoofing a host of movies, most notably 300, where Spartan King Leonidas, armed with only leather underwear and a cape, leads 13 misfit warriors to defend their homeland against the invading Persians, which include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Autobots, a hunchbacked Paris Hilton and a shaved-head Brittany Spears.To me, it was just a lot of forced, weird comedy consisting of crude jokes and overly-done effects. A lot of the gags and spoofs were just mentioned and quick references, not really emphasized; I would have liked to see Brad Pitt and Angelique Jolie's characters spoofed more. Kevin Zorbo was funny, though, and I liked how they portrayed the look-alikes.The overall story was pretty boring and the film lacked the direction and spirit of the better spoof films like the Zucker Brothers' Airplane!, Top Secret!, the Naked Gun movies and the Scary Movie films. Those were real, truly funny spoof films that you should really go watch, versus this one.Grade D-