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Meet the Spartans
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, 2008
I am getting tired of this. These parody films contain flat humor, illogical laughs, and are unreasonably terrible. Thanks to Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, we can suffer through some more unintentionally funny humor, in Meet the Spartans, one of the worst films ever made.
This lousy untalented shipwreck begins with the history of the Spartans, stealing even the plot from 300. King Leonidas (Sean Maguire) is brought up after getting abused and beaten to become a strong-held warrior. At one point in the film, he even fights a penguin after eating a Subway sandwich. Returning to Spartan territory a man, he marries the beautiful Queen Margo (Carmen Electra) who constantly cheats on him. When Persians arrive at the Spartan gates requesting power towards Xerxes (Ken Davitian), Leonidas refuses and kicks the Persian messengers down into the Pit of Death. Deciding to prevent war, Leonidas and his thirteen lousy warriors set out to take down the Persian immortals, as well as the other administrating command of Persia. Attempting to do so, ultimately puts them in a spot of danger when a hunchbacked Paris Hilton (Nicole Parker) informs the Persians of what Leonidas and his warriors are planning to do. Thus begins the legionary battle for freedom, as the thirteen stand united to fight the man-god Xerxes and his powerful armies.
No matter how many times you watch Meet the Spartans, and no matter how many times you re-consider it, this piece of trash deserves no recognition. The plot outline is a rip-off of the film 300, the characters are just jokes of the ones found in the movie as well, and it constantly insults pop culture with gag-less jokes that almost sound thought up at the moment. The performances are laughable, and the score is too. The worst thing about Meet the Spartans however, is the God-awful script. No memorable quotes necessarily exist in the film, and the ones that people do remember, are usually jokes with five words. Meet the Spartans does have some amount of positive humor but, a very limited supply of laughs.
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are ruining Hollywood as we speak. The only thing Meet the Spartans provides, is one big joke stretched into an hour and a half. Frame after frame shows somebody falling into something, poop jokes, sex jokes, or racism. That's all there is in their films, and it nearly is laughable due to the fact they will not stop. Twentieth Century Fox constantly allows them to make these horrible sketches that are understated and absolutely dumb. And yet every year, these films are number one at the box office, despite their low reviews by critics and moviegoers worldwide. Meet the Spartans currently rests at number one-hundred on IMDb's Bottom 100 feature list. The only performance that is close to notable, is Travis Van Winkle's. He recently starred in Transformers as Megan Fox's boyfriend in the park who only lasts for about twenty seconds on the screen before Fox catches a ride with Shia LaBeouf. Plus, he starred in the Friday the 13th remake which was also terrible.
Any way you look at it, Meet the Spartans is a heep of trouble. I admit the first half hour of the film was quite funny, yet after that I guess they ran out of ideas, which proves my point to which this should have been an SNL skit rather than a full-length movie. And I'm sure Jack Black would have done great, if it would have been on the show. Now, it lies at the bottom of the food chain, failing to impress anyone overall. It's not entertaining, and it's not boring, it's actually painful.
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, 2008
I am getting tired of this. These parody films contain flat humor, illogical laughs, and are unreasonably terrible. Thanks to Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, we can suffer through some more unintentionally funny humor, in Meet the Spartans, one of the worst films ever made.
This lousy untalented shipwreck begins with the history of the Spartans, stealing even the plot from 300. King Leonidas (Sean Maguire) is brought up after getting abused and beaten to become a strong-held warrior. At one point in the film, he even fights a penguin after eating a Subway sandwich. Returning to Spartan territory a man, he marries the beautiful Queen Margo (Carmen Electra) who constantly cheats on him. When Persians arrive at the Spartan gates requesting power towards Xerxes (Ken Davitian), Leonidas refuses and kicks the Persian messengers down into the Pit of Death. Deciding to prevent war, Leonidas and his thirteen lousy warriors set out to take down the Persian immortals, as well as the other administrating command of Persia. Attempting to do so, ultimately puts them in a spot of danger when a hunchbacked Paris Hilton (Nicole Parker) informs the Persians of what Leonidas and his warriors are planning to do. Thus begins the legionary battle for freedom, as the thirteen stand united to fight the man-god Xerxes and his powerful armies.
No matter how many times you watch Meet the Spartans, and no matter how many times you re-consider it, this piece of trash deserves no recognition. The plot outline is a rip-off of the film 300, the characters are just jokes of the ones found in the movie as well, and it constantly insults pop culture with gag-less jokes that almost sound thought up at the moment. The performances are laughable, and the score is too. The worst thing about Meet the Spartans however, is the God-awful script. No memorable quotes necessarily exist in the film, and the ones that people do remember, are usually jokes with five words. Meet the Spartans does have some amount of positive humor but, a very limited supply of laughs.
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are ruining Hollywood as we speak. The only thing Meet the Spartans provides, is one big joke stretched into an hour and a half. Frame after frame shows somebody falling into something, poop jokes, sex jokes, or racism. That's all there is in their films, and it nearly is laughable due to the fact they will not stop. Twentieth Century Fox constantly allows them to make these horrible sketches that are understated and absolutely dumb. And yet every year, these films are number one at the box office, despite their low reviews by critics and moviegoers worldwide. Meet the Spartans currently rests at number one-hundred on IMDb's Bottom 100 feature list. The only performance that is close to notable, is Travis Van Winkle's. He recently starred in Transformers as Megan Fox's boyfriend in the park who only lasts for about twenty seconds on the screen before Fox catches a ride with Shia LaBeouf. Plus, he starred in the Friday the 13th remake which was also terrible.
Any way you look at it, Meet the Spartans is a heep of trouble. I admit the first half hour of the film was quite funny, yet after that I guess they ran out of ideas, which proves my point to which this should have been an SNL skit rather than a full-length movie. And I'm sure Jack Black would have done great, if it would have been on the show. Now, it lies at the bottom of the food chain, failing to impress anyone overall. It's not entertaining, and it's not boring, it's actually painful.