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Meet the Spartans

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Meet the Spartans

PG-13

Released Jan 25, 2008

1h 24m

Comedy

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When Xerxes (Ken Davitian), the evil god king of Persia, sends his massive army to Sparta, King Leonidas (Sean Maguire) and 13 strapping warriors rise up to defend their homeland. Leonidas, Captain (Kevin Sorbo) and the rest face down dancing Persians, bad punch-lines and celebrity look-alikes.

Critics Consensus

A tired, unfunny, offensive waste of time, Meet the Spartans scrapes the bottom of the cinematic barrel.

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Simon Braund

Empire Magazine

Obviously, it's rubbish.

Rated: 1/5

Mar 20, 2008

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Kimberley Jones

Austin Chronicle

To devote an entire feature film to making fun of another film's universally acknowledged gay subtext seems to me good cause for said filmmakers to have a sit-down with their muse, because somebody's been sleeping on the job.

Rated: 0/5

Feb 1, 2008

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Clark Collis

Entertainment Weekly

The result in Meet the Spartans is less classic Mel Brooks than middling Best Week Ever.

Rated: C+

Jan 30, 2008

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James Croot

The Post NZ

The world's worst parody movie.

Rated: 1/5

Jun 27, 2022

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

This is one occasion, however, when sticking around to the very end does not have its rewards.

Rated: .5/4.0

Sep 16, 2020

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Ben Rawson-Jones

Digital Spy

Meet The Spartans? For those unlucky enough to be lured into the cinema, there's every chance you'll be wanting to meet your maker instead.

Rated: 1/5

Jul 14, 2011

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Martha S

Parody movies are supposed to be goofy and wild. Yea it’s awful but in a good way. All the negative reviews make me enjoy this more, grow up and get that stick out of you know where.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

05/02/25

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Oscar R

Fricken amazing haha

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

04/24/25

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Mark M

A terrible comedic take on 300 and a lesson that parody films have a 99.9% chance of failing

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/25/25

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Filippos S

Top worst SO AMERICAN rubbish in cinema.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/23/25

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Audience Member

This only gets 1 star because I know people who enjoy it. Honestly, good for them man. Sometimes I forget that people can enjoy things that I don’t. I think that’s beautiful. For what I have to say about this though, I hated every second of it. I gave the movie a pity laugh by forcefully laughing at the fact Rocky shows up. That’s about it. Absolutely horrid, in fact, this whole genre deserves to be dead. I’m ashamed I was even alive when this was released onto the world. If you enjoy it though, that’s perfectly ok because at the end of the day, only you know what you like. 1/5 stars.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/15/25

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Blu B

I feel like I have nothing to offer here that isn't well know but it's so bad it's worth reitertaing stay away from this like polio. The only reason I don't give it a zero is because there is a bare bone like 20 minute short story here dragged out with 45 minutes of beynd horrific and boring gross out humor, dated 00's references, and just lame surface level sex humor you can see coming a mile away. This looks like Ed Wood level production value if he made a movie in 2008. The music is so cringe. And don't forget almost 20 minutes of pointless credits and scenes so bad they didn't make into the movie but somehow made it into the movie. And we only get literally one Meet the Parents franchise reference too. Burn it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/12/25

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Jason Friedberg

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Aaron Seltzer

Director

Sean Maguire

Leonidas

Carmen Electra

Queen Margo

Ken Davitian

Xerxes

Kevin Sorbo

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Synopsis

When Xerxes (Ken Davitian), the evil god king of Persia, sends his massive army to Sparta, King Leonidas (Sean Maguire) and 13 strapping warriors rise up to defend their homeland. Leonidas, Captain (Kevin Sorbo) and the rest face down dancing Persians, bad punch-lines and celebrity look-alikes.

Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Producer: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Peter Safran
Screenwriter: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Regency Enterprises, New Regency Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Crude and Sexual Content|Some Comic Violence)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 25, 2008, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA): $38.2M
Runtime: 1h 24m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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