Python Hyena Meet the Spartans (2008): Dir: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer / Cast: Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo, Diedrich Bader: A brand new appeal for those barbaric Spartans dudes whose lives are bent around combat. Sean Maguire plays the new Spartan King but the Persians are closing in. The course of action is war. Setup is best written following 300 but after the initial premise, the film becomes episodic and rides into overkill. Too many references to game and reality programs drain much humour. It is as if the filmmakers needed to fill space so they referenced every stupid reality show within reach. Directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are backed with production that mocks its targets. They previously made Date Movie and the pathetic Epic Movie. Maguire is suited for the role of Spartan King but after his introduction where he kicks several people, including pop star Britney Spears into a pit, the film settles for mindless violent idiocy. Carmen Electra as the Queen has her moments but the role is too standard. Ken Davitian is featured as the Persian ruler. Kevin Sorbo plays the Spartan captain of the guard. Diedrich Bader is present just as he usually is but never as good as he was in Office Space. Spartans are met with tremendous attack on pop society that might have sounded good on paper but the results are a mixed. Score: 6 / 10

Rickting A word to the Olympics: If you ever run out of clay pigeons to use in the shooting events, use copies of this monstrosity instead. Another dreadful spoof from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, this parodies 300 and other blockbuster movies. Friedberg and Seltzer are an enigma in movies. How do they find work? No-one likes them. Some like Michael Bay or Twilight, but no-one likes these horrendous spoofs. Meet the Spartans is no different. The next time Jack Bauer wants to torture someone, he should just show them scenes from this movie. A film so ludicrously bad that you chuckle throughout, partially out of disbelief at how bad it is and partially because you just feel sorry for Friedberg and Seltzer because of how bad they are, MTS may not be quite as awful as Disaster Movie thanks to a grand total of 2 decent jokes, but it is undeniably an atrocious cinematic work. The film is so thin that it's only 65 minutes long. To get this to feature length, the end credits are really long and extended with deleted scenes. It's bad. I'm running out of ways to emphasize that now.The jokes are appalling. They're overdone, desperate, often sexist, weird, juvenile and just not funny. If you do laugh, you laugh at it not with it. The direction is also painfully awful, and this is as artistic as a muddy rainwater puddle thanks to the directors' total lack of effort. The acting is expectedly terrible, and the film suffers in general from its lack of wit, intelligence, structure and anything to make it feel like an actual movie, rather than some cruel form of cinematic torture. It's difficult to pick out the worst joke, although the tedious, face palm inducing sequence of celebrities getting kicked into the pit of death, a silly slow motion battle scene and a GTA scene which just doesn't make any sense stick in the memory. The ending is not remotely satisfying and this is not just a terrible film, it's one with a sexist, obnoxious personality and something which seems to be out to ridicule the films we like in an offensive manner. It's a pathetic spoof with no value whatsoever. It somehow made $84.6 million worldwide. Depressing.1/10

jake-law123 I hated literally everything about this film. I've never been a big Freidberg and Seltzer fan, but Epic Movie is a nostalgic guilty pleasure. This, on the other hand, is a painful monstrosity of human torture.There's no comedy in this film, I do not consider it a comedy. It does not, in the slightest, attempt to be anything besides vulgar, stupid, and horrible. I honestly don't think they're trying to be funny, because nothing is a joke, it's just a reference extravaganza. You have movie references, youtube references, celebrity references, random butts in your face, etc. It's short, but it feels like an eternity. No scene makes sense and doesn't try to be funny.This is if you let a 12 year old direct. Nothing clever, funny, or even humanely normal. It's just a 86 minutes of random out of nowhere stupidity. I can't think of anything else to say. It's simply unwatchable. I will kill myself if I ever have to watch this again. Complete waste of time, a damnation of mankind.

OllieSuave-007 This is another movie spoofing a host of movies, most notably 300, where Spartan King Leonidas, armed with only leather underwear and a cape, leads 13 misfit warriors to defend their homeland against the invading Persians, which include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Autobots, a hunchbacked Paris Hilton and a shaved-head Brittany Spears.To me, it was just a lot of forced, weird comedy consisting of crude jokes and overly-done effects. A lot of the gags and spoofs were just mentioned and quick references, not really emphasized; I would have liked to see Brad Pitt and Angelique Jolie's characters spoofed more. Kevin Zorbo was funny, though, and I liked how they portrayed the look-alikes.The overall story was pretty boring and the film lacked the direction and spirit of the better spoof films like the Zucker Brothers' Airplane!, Top Secret!, the Naked Gun movies and the Scary Movie films. Those were real, truly funny spoof films that you should really go watch, versus this one.Grade D-