What a complete waste of time! I don't know quite what made me rent this inane piece of trash based on the movie "300" - in fact it was most likely a misguided sense of fandom that made me do it.
But even if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I'd still be insulted by this if I were the makers of "300".
It eventually got so tiresome that I ended up listening to the audio commentary. From the sounds of it, at least the cast had a ball making the movie, so I'm glad at least some people got to enjoy it.
There really is very little to recommend here, as even the "Casino Royale", "Spiderman 3", "American Idol" and "Happy Feet" send-ups are pathetically devoid of any intelligent input. You see every gag coming from a mile away, and it almost always involves testicles, boobs or some crack about Spartans being gay. The producers should have spent more money on quality comedy writers, instead of wasting all the funding on securing I've-almost-made-it TV actors on vacation from their real jobs. I'm particularly embarrassed for Diederich Bader, whose pedigree is much better than this.
In this Little League genre of spoofs, the Wayans brothers' "Scary Movie" franchise, "Not Another Teen Movie" and the intro sequence to probably every year's MTV Movie Awards since 2001 are the leading contenders. Against that field, "Meet the Spartans" comes off as a tired also-ran.
But even if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I'd still be insulted by this if I were the makers of "300".
It eventually got so tiresome that I ended up listening to the audio commentary. From the sounds of it, at least the cast had a ball making the movie, so I'm glad at least some people got to enjoy it.
There really is very little to recommend here, as even the "Casino Royale", "Spiderman 3", "American Idol" and "Happy Feet" send-ups are pathetically devoid of any intelligent input. You see every gag coming from a mile away, and it almost always involves testicles, boobs or some crack about Spartans being gay. The producers should have spent more money on quality comedy writers, instead of wasting all the funding on securing I've-almost-made-it TV actors on vacation from their real jobs. I'm particularly embarrassed for Diederich Bader, whose pedigree is much better than this.
In this Little League genre of spoofs, the Wayans brothers' "Scary Movie" franchise, "Not Another Teen Movie" and the intro sequence to probably every year's MTV Movie Awards since 2001 are the leading contenders. Against that field, "Meet the Spartans" comes off as a tired also-ran.