Meet the Spartans (2008)

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Directed by Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer.

Starring Diedrich Bader, Ken Davitian, Jim Piddock, Kevin Sorbo, Carmen Electra, Method Man, Sean Maguire.

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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 is written and directed by the filmmaking team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide

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Is parody on life support?
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"Cinematic parody as it once was is dead. And after much searching and researching, I have found the murderer of this under-appreciated sub-genre of filmmaking. It’s Waldo. Oh sure, the bespectacled, striped-ski-cap-sporting little geek likes to appear anonymous, but I am positive he is to blame for the current slate of “Movie” movies: “Epic Movie,” ”Date Movie” and, most recently, “Superhero Movie.” If he’s not guilty, ask yourself this, why is he always hiding? You see, it is my assertion that the latest generation of filmgoers was weaned on Waldo in their youths. At an early age, they were trained to snoop and search page after page for the skinny little dweeb, and they approach these films much the same way. “Hey, there’s Borat!” “Oh, that’s a reference to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.’” They do not concern themselves with narrative, character development, plot, rationalit ... " [More]

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"This has not been a good week to be at New Line Cinema.After getting enslaved by the Time-Warner media monolith last week, the company could not even trumpet its swansong. “Semi-Pro,” the Will Ferrell sports comedy, was the last film to be released while still remaining a “free agent,” tanked at the box office, squeezing out $3 million less than “Meet the Spartans” just a few weeks ago.Let that sink in.Will Ferrell, who has a string of successes and is a worldwide box office “star,” made less in a comedy than a film that’s biggest asset was a Britney Spears clone shaving her head and breakdancing gladiators.Prognosticators are scratching their heads as to how this could happen, offering theories of a tired formula (Will Ferrell + a sport + wacky non-sequiturs = funny), an unstable movie-going weekend (though “Ghost Rider” did better in its second week last year at the same time and “Madea’s Family Reunion ... " [More]

The Onion Movie Trailer
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"I had nearly forgotten about The Onion Movie. The sketch-comedy-formatted film spin-off of the brilliant newspaper satire was made about four years ago and then was abandoned by original distributor Fox Searchlight. According to Wikipedia, it performed badly with test audiences, and when it was shelved and then dropped by the studio, the filmmakers — co-directors Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire and screenwriter Robert Siegel (formerly editor of The Onion) — also walked away from the project. It spent the next few years involved in attempted rescue operations by New Regency and actor-writer Scott Aukerman (Run Ronnie Run!). Now, finally this trailer has shown up on the DVD of Fox Searchlight’s The Darjeeling Limited, implying that the studio will be dumping it to DVD sometime this year. As you can see, there was good reason for Fox to have initially distanced itself from the movie. It makes the similar-structured The Kentucky Fried Movie look like a masterpiece (I understand it’s conside ... " [More]

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"this....this movie..i dont even want to call it a movie this was so awful that I will go to my grave saying this movie was one of the worst movies ever made and im a fan for spoofs but this made me ashamed of being there you people talk about it being a waste of time and money its a waste of life People if you want to go see this movie...then kill your self trust me it'll be playing in a loop in hell. " [More]

HORRIBLE!
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"NO ONE SHOULD SEE THIS MOVIE. IT IS A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY TO SEE. THE MOVIE IS HORRIBLY MADE AND SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ALOUD TO BE IN THEATERS! IT WAS SO HORRIBLE I LEFT. I REPEAT NEVER SEE THIS MOVIE IT IS A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. IF YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE IT THEN I SUGGEST WAITING TILL DVD, THAT WAY YOU CAN SHUT IT OFF! " [More]

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"I love the spoof movie series and this made me embarassed to even admire these movies. I think that this genre could have done without this movie " [More]

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"Okay, now I am the type of person that LOVES movie spoofs, I will admit it, I loved ALL the Scary Movie movies, I like Not Another Teen Movie, I liked I know what you did last Friday the 13th, Okay and I even liked Spaceballs (yes, I am admitting it) BUT Meet the Spartans was such a waste of time. I kept saying over and over WHY IS KEVIN SORBO IN THIS MOVIE???? WHY did he agree to do it???? The comedy was really not funny, it was just STUPID. I like stupid things, but this was REALLY insipid, there were a couple of things that gave me a chuckle, and their were some very fine men to look at, I did enjoy that part...but this was the FIRST TIME I HAVE EVER walked out of a movie before it was over. Actually, I would have stayed just to see the end but my friend looked at me and said, GOD, I would rather shove forks in my eyes than watch the rest of it, soooooo, we left. Anyway, like I said, I LIKE stupid movies but this was just comedy for little kids. " [More]

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"Meet The Spartans was the bomb,i totally love it,it's better than Date Movie,Scary Movie,BASEsketball,Mafia!,Hot Shots,Spy Hard and Epic Movie,i wish the movie comes on dvd with unrated version,gag reel and deleted scenes.The next upcoming horror - comedy film called:Another Slasher Movie,is based on Not Another Teen Movie and The Comebacks,about a gang of zany,wannabe serial slashers terrorizes a group of slacker teenagers on halloween in this sendup of scariest slasher films of 80s,90s and 2000s.A hunchbacked Paris Hilton,my favorite. " [More]

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