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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 14655
Released: June 3, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
History has never been so... hysterical! Prepare to fight for honor, fight for glory, and fight back tears of laughter watching this gut-busting spoof comedy that skewers pop culture's biggest icons.
In Meet the Spartans, the heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 - count'em, 13! - warriors to defend their homeland against the invading Persians, whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton.
You won't find a funnier Greek war film even if you live to see 300!
Description of Meet the Spartans (Unrated 'Pit of Death' Edition):
With Meet the Spartans, the creators of Date Movie lampoon penguins, Paris Hilton, American Idol, Britney Spears, Dancing with the Stars, Stomp the Yard, Brangelina, Lindsay Lohan, product placement, Sylvester Stallone, Transformers, and pretty much every other obvious target that's emerged since they made their last flick, Epic Movie. The main subject of mockery is 300, the visual-effects laden Greek warrior movie, the relentless homoeroticism of which is not-so-subtly pointed out with a mixture of scatology, phallic humor, painted-on six-pack abs, disco songs, blows to the groin, and spitting--lots and lots and lots of spitting. There's nothing remotely clever about Meet the Spartans, and even fans of pop-culture cuisinarts like Scary Movie may feel the genre is losing its oomph, but if you're looking for a shotgun blast of lowbrow gags, this is it. Along for the ride are Sean Maguire (The Class), Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), Ken Davitian (Borat), Diedrich Bader (Napoleon Dynamite), and Carmen Electra, without whom no movie of this kind would be complete. The only person who emerges with any credibility is comedienne Nicole Parker (Mad TV), who does a pretty spot-on impression of Ellen DeGeneres. --Bret Fetzer
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Meet The Spartans Movie 
2009-12-14 - Excellent service! The movie was in excellent condition and it arrived fast and efficient! Very pleased and will order again! Thank you!
DO NOT VIEW 
2009-11-27 - This film is a waste of:
your time.
your money.
your dignity.
Avoid at all costs. I did not laugh once. I was angry after watching this movie.
Meet the Spartans
2009-11-21 - Very funny spoof movie. Movie was delivered within days of ordering it from this seller.
"The 300" meets "Rocky Horror Picture Show" 
2009-11-14 - "Meet the Spartans" is terrible but, then again, it's supposed to be terrrible. This is a deliberate spoof of the incredibly stupid "The 300", a movie that well deserves to be ridiculed.
The actual story of the courageous Spartan defense of the pass of Thermopolae...The Gates of Fire...is an fabulous tale of patriotism and heroism. It didn't deserve the comic, male model treatment as depicted in "The 300". Evidentally the producers/directors of "Meet the Spartans" felt the same way and spoofed the special-effects monstrosity posing as contorted history.
The last scene, shown as the credits are being reeled off, is a dance scene..."I WILL Survive!"...by the various weird characters in front of equally weird 'American Idol' judges. The judges get into the whole thing themselves with some doing kicks and gyrations from their judges' chairs. It is highly reminiscent of one of he last scenes...also a dance scene...in "Rocky Horror Picture Show" in which the characters all get into tights and wiggle around. Even the formal and objective, Dr. Scott, as a kind of objective witness, gets sucked up into the sexuality of the whole thing, bursts into song and lifts his 'paralyzed' leg to discover, to his amazement, it is also clad in tights.
Well, the "Rocky Horror" analogy is there but this film isn't the same weird masterpiece.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico...'Skull Rack' and 'Hummingbird God.'
This movie is Hilarious
2009-10-30 - I am so sick of stupid greased up he-man movies like Troy and 300, and it is very refreshing to finally see someone making fun of how incredibly gay those movies are. I enjoy violence as much as the next guy, but 300 was like some sort of homoerotic fantasy, and it was great to see it get ripped on by the makers of this fine film.
