Spartatouille

A painful rape of a classic parody, from which the viewer takes the worst of the blows in terms of good taste. To build humor on dysfunctional pop culture references and mutual slapping seems to me like a waste of the audience’s money and time. I’m tempted to give Carmen Electra's sexy curves one full star, but in the end, even Kevin "Hercules" Sorbo's funny self-parody doesn't help because the result really is that tragic and inexcusable. (04/04/2008)

Disgusting as any such comedy, the gunk splatters, the grossness runs down your face, but since I watched it with friends, it was pretty funny, too – laughter is contagious :-) A typical parody, if I had to compare it to Scary Movie 3, this is worse, but if I had to compare it to Scary Movie, this is an order of magnitude better. 2+ (16/04/2010)

Meet the Spartans is one of the (relatively) more accomplished parodies of recent years, once again taking aim at a number of well-known films and personalities. Some of the scenes were very foul indeed, but given the directorial duo, it's no wonder, actually, Friedberg and Seltzer have done much worse. In short, within its genre, this is an average affair, and I actually laughed a few times. (10/07/2011)

I wanted to give at least one honorary star for the closing credits, which start running after (not until?) an hour into the film, but then Kevin Sorbo started singing, and even shouting "Boo!" is not quite good enough. P.S.: And I hope part two is about Slavia. Why should only Sparta be portrayed in such a laughable way (even if using the word “laughable" with regard to this "movie" is really pushing it)? (30/01/2009)

Another entry in a series of modern, wannabe funny parodies whose stupid humour often surpasses even the worst and craziest expectations. I didn't like Snyder's 300 at all, This is Sparta! at least has a sexy Carmen Electra, a few more or less funny references and a truly evil Xerxes. Otherwise, horror, misery and stupidity in every way... (04/10/2012)