Grade: F
The “2 of the 6 writers of the ‘Scary Movie’ franchise” need to be stopped. In their third straight year of producing a spoof “comedy” movie they somewhat take on the movie ‘300’ with ‘Meet the Spartans’ a homo-erotic twist on the 2007 hit. The writers don’t appear to have even tried with things like how the Spartans greet each other: high-fives to the women and open mouth kisses for the men when greeting each other.
The only laughs to be had within the movie are when the Spartans literally skip to the Hot Gates and during the only fight scene to protect their land from the invading Persians. All other fight scenes make fun of other movies such as ‘Step Up’ and ‘Bring It On’ in which the Spartans and the Persian “soldiers” have dance-offs and “Yo-Momma” fights.
Unlike its predecessors ‘Meet the Spartans’ has absolutely no originality within the story. With the tag line “no movie is safe” they attempt to make fun of other movies like ‘Spider-man,’ ‘Shrek,’ the infamous (and completely unnecessary) “leave Britney alone” YouTube video and ‘Transformers.’ Whereas in previous movies the writers stuck to specific movie genres where, they take pop-culture parodies to new almost unbearable lows within the torment of this movie.
In what should be an abomination to the movie industry ‘Meet the Spartans’ debuted at number one in the box-office for the weekend of Jan. 25. For a movie that runs 94 minutes-- too long-- there is little to take away from this movie other than a lighter wallet/purse. Recommendation: use the $20 you would spend to see this movie on something more productive like filling your gas tank; you’ll get more laughs out of that experience than you will with ‘Meet the Spartans.’
3 comments:
Unlike its predecessors ‘Meet the Spartans’ has absolutely no originality within the story.
Er...which predecessors? Date Movie? Epic Movie? The Comebacks? Because I'm having a hard time imagining any sense of originally contained in any of those, either.
I'm a little perplexed as to why you might've viewed this movie to begin with, considering there are films at the theater that are far more deserving of your money.
-M
Date Movie, Epic Movie were all movies within a contract between the writers and the studio and this movie is part of that contract so I do consider it part of a series.
And what I meant by "originality" is that the other movies at least stuck to one premise and made up it's own dialog. Whereas Meet the Spartans was just one long string of jokes that have been said on Conan O'Brien and countless internet jokes.
I dunno if that clears anything up or makes any more sense. But that's the best I can do at this moment.
Date Movie, Epic Movie were all movies within a contract between the writers and the studio and this movie is part of that contract so I do consider it part of a series.
Well, I never tried to insinuate that they weren't part of a 'series,' because they obviously have similar premises; rather, I was balking at your suggestion that ANY of them have had any originality to their credit.
I only saw it the one time, but I recall Date Movie being little more than a string of re-tooled scenes from...well, date movies with lame jokes thrown in, with a couple of pop culture references (Napoleon Dynamite, Paris Hilton's burger commercial) thrown in to break up the monotony. Basically, there wasn't an honest to goodness joke to be had within the entire 83-minute running time. I avoided Epic Movie on that basis alone, but I imagine it was more of the same.
-M
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