Meet the Spartans (2008)

Originally Written

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

I've discovered a new and more effective form of torture for the terrorist prisoners of Guantanamo, more effective than water boarding... it's called Meet the Spartans. If one needs anymore proof as to the pure disgrace of the "spoof genre" look no farther than this film, it takes the cake.

Meet the Spartans is a brainless spoof on the film 300, which relies solely on jokes surrounding gay guys and Carmen Electra's breasts. While this would seem like an obvious target to spoof on the film 300, none of the jokes are remotely innovative or humorous, but a rehash from every other spoof film that's been thrown together in last decade which included the same jokes and ironically Carmen Electra. I managed to barely make it halfway through this before turning it off in total boredom; when the only thing I laughed at was twenty year old "Your Momma's So Fat" jokes I knew the film had overstayed its welcome.

Overall, it's not saying much for a film when the only positive thing I can say is Carmen Electra made me not give it a straight zero. Ironically enough, the queen of spoof gives one of her best acting performances, and having Carmen Electra in a toga helped to offset the excessively gay themes (which got old fast). They should have made an hour film surrounding Carmen's character which at least would have been watchable. It's quite obvious I don't need to state this is a total waste of time, but the fact that Meet the Spartans actually grossed about 80 million dollars worldwide (almost half of that in the United States) is only a clear sign of the garbage people are willing see at $11 a ticket, so don't complain about $5 a gallon gas if you have enough cash to blow on this crap. Realistically the blame for the growth in spoof films lays on those of you paying to fund them, as long as you keep donating your hard earned cash to these lame excuses for comedies, they'll keep spitting them out.

1/10