 Meet the Spartans is a 2008 spoof/parody produced and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Although it references many movies, TV shows, people and pop cultural events, it focuses mainly on the movie 300.
Plot
The film opens with a Spartan elder inspecting a Shrekish baby, with the narrator paraphrasing the words of Dilios in the movie 300 about the Spartan selectiveness of their citizens. The baby is rejected and punted off the hill. Baby Leonidas is then inspected, having a six-pack, biceps, and beard from birth. He is accepted as a Spartan and prepared for his kinghood by many humorous adventures, including being captured and accused as if he were James Bond, getting beaten by a Spartan elder, and fighting and killing a giant penguin (as in Happy Feet) in the wilderness.
Returning a king for his inauguration ceremony, Leonidas sees Margo dancing and asks her to marry him, to which she responds by giving him the combination to her chastity belt. The flim then fast forwards to where the story begins, opening with Leonidas training his son, beating him with various weapons and other objects. Leonidas is then informed that a Persian messenger has arrived to represent Xerxes, and Leonidas greets him the Spartan way (high-fives for the women and open mouth tongue kisses for the men). After growing angry with the messenger's direspect, Leonidas kicks him and several other people he just plain disliked, ranging from "Britney Spears" to notorious Idol contestant Sanjaya Malakar, into "The Pit of Death".
Leonidas and Margo then decide to have sex before Leonidas most likely dies (which in fact is just Leonidas bench pressing his wife numerous times). Leonidas then goes out to meet the soldiers collected for his departure, and finds that only 13 (not 300) came to the call of war. The 13 hold hands and skip behind Leonidas to Thermopylae, where they meet Paris Hilton (the movie's equivalent of Ephialtes). She is rejected and betrays them to Xerxes (who was identified as "the fat guy from Borat").
After several Stomp the Yard and Yo Momma bouts, the Spartans prepare to fight their final battle against Xerxes. Using a CGI army, Xerxes overpowers the 12 remaining Greeks. Even after being defeated, however, Xerxes still overwhelms the Spartans when he transforms his convertable into a suit of armor, playing the Chris Crocker 'Leave Britney Alone' video, before it crushed the 12 distracted Spartans under its bulk. Dilio apparently leads a force of 100 real Spartans and several thousand more CGI ones, but since he is blind goes the wrong way and leads the Spartans to Malibu, crashing into Lindsay Lohan as she was coming out of rehab, leaving her pantyless crotch exposed.
Directed by Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Produced by Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Peter Safran
Written by Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Starring Sean Maguire
Carmen Electra
Ken Davitian
Kevin Sorbo
Diedrich Bader
Method Man
Nicole Parker
Music by Christopher Lennertz
Cinematography Shawn Maurer
Editing by Peck Prior
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Regency Enterprises
Release date(s) January 25, 2008
Running time 84 min.
Country Flag of the United States
Language English
Budget $30 million
Preceded by Epic Movie |
