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2% Tomatometer 49 Reviews 25% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings When Xerxes (Ken Davitian), the evil god king of Persia, sends his massive army to Sparta, King Leonidas (Sean Maguire) and 13 strapping warriors rise up to defend their homeland. Leonidas, Captain (Kevin Sorbo) and the rest face down dancing Persians, bad punch-lines and celebrity look-alikes. Read More Read Less

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A tired, unfunny, offensive waste of time, Meet the Spartans scrapes the bottom of the cinematic barrel.

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Meet the Spartans | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Simon Braund Empire Magazine Obviously, it's rubbish. Rated: 1/5 Mar 20, 2008 Full Review Meet the Spartans | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle To devote an entire feature film to making fun of another film's universally acknowledged gay subtext seems to me good cause for said filmmakers to have a sit-down with their muse, because somebody's been sleeping on the job. Rated: 0/5 Feb 1, 2008 Full Review Meet the Spartans | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Clark Collis Entertainment Weekly The result in Meet the Spartans is less classic Mel Brooks than middling Best Week Ever. Rated: C+ Jan 30, 2008 Full Review Meet the Spartans | Rotten Tomatoes (4) James Croot Stuff.co.nz The world's worst parody movie. Rated: 1/5 Jun 27, 2022 Full Review Meet the Spartans | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com This is one occasion, however, when sticking around to the very end does not have its rewards. Rated: .5/4.0 Sep 16, 2020 Full Review Meet the Spartans | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Ben Rawson-Jones Digital Spy Meet The Spartans? For those unlucky enough to be lured into the cinema, there's every chance you'll be wanting to meet your maker instead. Rated: 1/5 Jul 14, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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Davide C Demential nonsense trash movie, the only instance someone would watch it is with friends who know the og movie and want to laugh at the dumbest nonsense.And that's what we did. Perfect for such evenings. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/03/24 Full Review Timur, Chi, T, Samilia, Tangram and Samil M It's definitely rubbish. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 05/16/24 Full Review Test T I watched this on DVD recently. Some might say it needs work, while others think it's complete nonsense. I approached it with an open mind, hoping to find some positives. It's not easy with a film like this, but occasionally the satire underpinning the rediculousness can be mildly amusing. Unfortunately, this rapidly wears thin and after about 30 minutes I was increasingly tempted to turn it off. I can't recommend it. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/12/24 Full Review SNDN Other people might not like the crude humor but I enjoyed it. It's a blast from the past and is a movie that would probably be canceled in today's age. 10/10 Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/07/24 Full Review Scat S I'm honestly shocked by the Low score on this. I thought the move was hilarious, funny and clever. Perhaps the folks who low rated it, are a bit tender in their sensibilities and are hurt and offended by comedy. If you like old school cheeseball comedy spoofs (from the 70's and 80's), you'll love this…..don't be scared to laugh!!! Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/10/24 Full Review DayBro Bad Comedy. It is so dull movie, somebody says: because it is a comedy, but no, it is simply dull film, with out any sense.Conclusion: I waste my time, don't do my mistake. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jason Friedberg Director Aaron Seltzer Director Sean Maguire Leonidas Carmen Electra Queen Margo Ken Davitian Xerxes Kevin Sorbo Captain
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Synopsis When Xerxes (Ken Davitian), the evil god king of Persia, sends his massive army to Sparta, King Leonidas (Sean Maguire) and 13 strapping warriors rise up to defend their homeland. Leonidas, Captain (Kevin Sorbo) and the rest face down dancing Persians, bad punch-lines and celebrity look-alikes.

Director
Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

Producer
Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Peter Safran

Screenwriter
Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer

Distributor
20th Century Fox

Production Co
New Regency Pictures, Regency Enterprises

Rating
PG-13 (Language|Crude and Sexual Content|Some Comic Violence)

Genre
Comedy

Original Language
Tagalog

Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 25, 2008, Wide

Box Office (Gross USA)
$38.2M

Runtime
1h 24m

Sound Mix
Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS

Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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