Synopsis
The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton). No one is safe when the Spartans take on the biggest icons in pop culture!
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Cast
- Sean MaguireLeonidas
- Carmen ElectraQueen Margo
- Ken DavitianXerxes
- Kevin SorboHauptmann
- Diedrich BaderTraitoro
- Method ManPersian Emissary
- Ike BarinholtzDane Cook Look-a-Like / Bond Villain / Prophet
- Lauren WalshPretty Girl
- Tiffany HaddishUrban Girl
- Travis Van WinkleSonio
Recommendations
- 58
Entertainment Weekly
Less classic Mel Brooks than middling "Best Week Ever." - 38
Boston Globe
The best thing in Meet the Spartans is the swift kick in the bombast it delivers to the oh-no-not-us homoeroticism of "300." - 25
TV Guide Magazine
The musical number that runs during the closing credits funnier than anything that precedes it, which isn't saying much. - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
Writer-directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer basically reprise the tired formula from their earlier efforts, which is to throw in as many pop culture references as possible to cover up the lack of any real wit. - 20
The New York Times
Overkill is what Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer do best: as the uncontested titans of the parody genre (with fingers in everything from the “Scary Movie” franchise to the more recent “Epic Movie”) they continue to prove that ridiculing other movies is much easier than making your own. - 20
L.A. Weekly
Meet the Spartans is a mild improvement over their "Epic Movie," which is like saying that a debilitating fever is more fun than appendicitis, but what’s shocking is how lazy it is, which is a shame for former UK child star/pop singer Sean Maguire, whose Gerard Butler impersonation is spot-on. - 10
Variety
Lazy, lame and painfully unfunny, Meet the Spartans is yet another scrambled-genre parody. - 0
The A.V. Club
Meet The Spartans gamely alternates between unfunny gay jokes and violent pratfalls for a good 80 minutes, finding time for not one, but two musical dance numbers set to "I Will Survive."
