Meet the Spartans

From the creators of Scary Movie and Date Movie comes this tongue-in-cheek parody of the sword-and-sandal epics, dubbed Meet the Spartans. The 20th Century Fox production was written and directed by the filmmaking team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Sure, Leonidas may have nothing more than a ...more

Most spoofs string together scenes and plots from a variety of smash movies, both serious and silly. One needn’t look any further than the uber-successful Scary Movie franchise for evidence of imitation used to bring about a plethora of laughs. Sadly, humor is in short supply with Meet the Spartans, a send up of the serious, green screen graphic novel adaptation of 300. The film certainly tries its damnedest, revisiting and recycling the latent homoerotic subtext of an army of men who run ...more