Meet the Spartans (2008)

Today I’ll be telling about the film Meet the Spartan, which is a spoof of 300. Beware though, this review is not spoiler-free.

Anyway, the film’s comedy started from the first point the film begins. Instead of having a normal baby, there was a Shrek-like baby, a Vietnamese (which was adopted by Brangelina), and finally, the six-packed bearded Spartan baby. The joke continues even in the harsh tempering of Leonidas in the cold, in which he found a Subway sandwich and fighting a penguin. Later he married Margo and have a son. Upon the arrival of Persian emissary, they agreed to talk near the pit of death. Then after some chit-chat (which was quite similar to the original movie), Leonidas kicked the Persian emissary to the pit of death. Followed by the Persian archers, and…there came Britney. After kicking her (and K-Fed also), there’s a parody of American Idol, with Sanjaya Malakar look-a-like, complete with the crying girl, and the jury. After kicking each of them, then Leonidas went to consult the oracle, which was Ugly Betty. But despite what the oracle said, Leonidas still prepares for war with 300 Spartan men…or less.

Arriving at the Hot Gates, they met with Paris Hilton (please, not another one) with a hump in her back. Then after rejecting her, they face the Persian army, led by Method Man (complete with a rapper-like style hat and chains), which later concludes into a battle of break dance. Having lost, the Persian army was pushed into the ocean, and then God-King Xerxes came (who was very similar to the ugly guy in Borat). After refusing the deal (in a Deal or No Deal manner) and challenging Xerxes, he brought out his army, and went into battle like in the MTV show Yo Momma. After losing to Leonidas, then Xerxes went away to prepare his troops.

As you might have guessed, the humpback Paris betrayed the Spartans and went to help Xerxes. In the next battle, Leonidas sent home one of his soldiers and ready to face battle with just several soldiers. Xerxes came and brought more than 10.000 troops…in a blue screen. Anyway, after a brief fighting and the Captain’s son had been killed (by Rocky Balboa), and also the Captain, Leonidas went to a GTA-like style. Finally Xerxes couldn’t stand it anymore and brought the cube (from Transformers) to transform into a Megatron-like creature. It then fell on top of the Spartans and the movie come to an end with an American Idol stage and everybody singing happily (which I felt it was too much already, because it was so damn long end credits).

Well, that’s about the movie Meet the Spartan. Overall, the joke is already repeatedly used in the similar spoof movies, but it’s still quite funny (just a little bit, to tell you the truth). The worse thing is, it had too many ads, such as American Idol, Hooters (deleted scene), and even The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaves went in there. I’d prefer Superhero Movie rather than this one, actually. I’d give 5/10 on overall rating, probably even less because of the running time just about an hour (which is a major drawback compared to Epic Movie).

Well, aside from that, do you notice the new theme in my blogs? In Live Spaces, I use the Luminous theme (actually, I wanted to have the Silverlight theme, but it’s not available), while in the WordPress, I use a simple black theme (I forgot the name). Oh yeah, sorry about the other posts that has been published with green font, it’s quite hard to read them, so just stick with the new posts, ok?

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