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| Meet The Spartans (Rated) | 
 enlarge | Directors: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Actors: Diedrich Bader, Ken Davitian, Jim Piddock, Phil Morris, Kevin Sorbo
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 49231
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 84
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2251924D
UPC: 024543519249
EAN: 0024543519249
ASIN: B00177Y9ZW
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Former rental with center label and minimal rotations. Boxart in great shape also
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Product Description
The heroic leonidas armed with nothing by leather underwear and a cape leads a ragtag group of 13 - count em 13! - spartans to defend their homeland against the invading persians (whose ranks include ghost rider rocky balboa the transformers and a hunchbacked paris hilton.. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 06/03/2008 Starring: Sean Maguire Run time: 84 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Jason Friedberg
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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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 I killed brain cells watching this... January 4, 2009
I'm up for some ridiculous humor any time after a long day's work. I bought this believing it to get me in a light happy mood.
This movie didn't even get me to smile.
The jokes were more than predictable, in the way that I knew where the punch line was going long before they even started saying it.
Actually the movie seemed to sense my complete boredom and started throwing cheap bathroom humor and vulgar things in hopes that I would keep my attention to it.
Many scenes I felt didn't even belong and were there just for the sake of trying to keep audiences entertained.
The actors are flat in their deliverance of the jokes and the characters they make themselves to be are so completely ridiculous that it's not even funny. The various "culture" references they make are annoying and nothing new. I've seen WAY too many of these jokes in other comedy films.
If you've seen the movie trailer or commercials, and think this movie keeps that humor they show, don't be deceived. What the commercial/trailers show is about all the funny it gets. (and that didn't even get me laughing) The rest is just blah.
Overall, it's a copycat of what so many comedy movies are now. It's forgettable and a waste of money to buy or rent!
I didn't think it possible, but this COMEDY movie actually put me in an even more depressing mood.
Please buyers, spare yourselves!!
 Not bad! December 25, 2008
I'm going to have to agree with most of the previous reviewers in saying that this is indeed not the best of films compared to other spoofs out there, though by no means is it a flop.
Meet the Spartans follows in the footsteps of Epic Movie, Date Movie, Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th, and the Scary Movie series, in being a parody of several films including Shrek, Borat, and the Transformers among others as well shows like American Idol though as the title implies it does focus on the 300.
It is a humorous movie with a good casting, even though some of the dialogues could have been better.
The girls are also a great addition; Carmen Electra was HOT as Queen Gorgo and the Hooters girls were NICE as well.
Overall, far from being a masterpiece, Meet the Spartans will provide for an evening's entertainment especially if one is in a really silly mood and/or intoxicated. 3.5 Stars
 Sort of Funny the First Watch, Not the Second December 22, 2008
I saw this when it first came out. I loved Frank Miller's "300" and I love parodies of things I like. I laughed quite a bit the first time I saw this movie, mainly that Sean Maguire looked a lot like Leonidas but with braces. The homosexual overtones were extremely funny. Plus, having Cameron Electra in your movie as the 'hottie' is never a bad thing. But the movie really comes to life the second watch, when you realise the movie wasn't as funny as you thought the first time.
The plot goes along the lines of "300" pretty much. They have men with turkey baked tans weilding swords. There's a lot of slow-motion camera views, but I think it was a little overdone. This could have just been a parody to the way "300" actually was filmed. Actually, if you haven't seen "300" a few times, you probably won't even get 95% of the jokes.
Most of the parodies go along the line of MTV/reality spoofs. Aside from the main theme, they parody movies about break dancing, parody celebrities like Paris Hilton, and then American Idol. While the American Idol portion is funny, it's really, really dragged out in this movie. There's at least 5 different scenes of Idol parody that are all the same, but a different celebrity kicked into the Pit O Death each time. This happens a lot in this movie, and is probably the main reason the movie sucks the second time. When the parodies arrive, they're funny in a sense, but when they drag on for 10 minutes of the movie, it's not so funny. Especially the dancing portion of the movie. I didn't really see the humor in it. It just looked like they copied scenes from other movies and threw them in there. I'd say the best parody was directly from "300" in which a slow motion battle scene is shown, and Leonidas slaps a guy in the face with a towel. That's about it.
For being an unrated film, I didn't see anything really different from the first time I saw it. I'm almost certain there wasn't anything really different. As for the quality on Blu-ray, of course, it looks good. The sounds are great, and there's a good amount of bonus features, but seriously, who's watching the bonus features on this movie?
Boring, nothing new... December 20, 2008
Nothing good to see in this movie, I know it is supoused to be stupid but is too much... a waste of time!
It's interesting movie!!! October 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie was fun and interesting. This movie characters are funny and acts are good. The movie CGI was nice. The blu-ray disc was good.
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