Oct 19 2007'Meet the Spartans' Trailer Meets Laughlessness
The forcefully humorless parody comedy has come a long way since the Wayans boys and Scary Movie tried to reinvigorate the style. With recent innovations in the lowering of standards, gone is the necessity to parody an entire genre to reach an hour-and-a-half of anti-comedy. As this trailer to Meet the Spartans shows, we've now reached a point where you can simply reenact a single film, and as long as you make enough clumsy references to other movies and pop culture, it just might be mistaken for a legitimate comedy.
Remember that movie Stomp the Yard? Wouldn't it be funny if Spartans from 300 danced like that? Britney Spears shaved her head, so wouldn't it be funny to see a poor imitation of Britney Spears doing the same thing, then being murdered? Isn't any reference to the title of a Ben Stiller movie kind of funny?
Meet the Spartans answers all of these questions, and the answer is always 'no.'
Imagine a movie so bad that you feel apologetic that Kevin Sorbo had to take a role in it, even after however many seasons of Hercules. It seems mythological but here it is, under the cut.
Reader Comments
1. sam - October 19, 2007 12:17 PM
You're just angry you can't masturbate to hot young men like you could when watching 300.
2. pat - October 19, 2007 12:39 PM
oh my god.
3. Markus - October 19, 2007 12:42 PM
Could be funny though.
4. Vince Lombardi - October 19, 2007 12:50 PM
I actually laughed when he kicked Brit down the well.
5. Matt - October 19, 2007 1:19 PM
I didn't laugh at all. That looks terrible on every level possible.
6. Bas - October 19, 2007 1:48 PM
I laughed at the 'stomp the yard' thing....am i going to die? :/
7. Kitty Tibet - October 19, 2007 1:53 PM
It'll looks good enough to TIVO fast forward through when it comes to Spike TV in two years.
8. nominus - October 19, 2007 2:19 PM
If ever there was a movie that was destined to be timeless, this is it!!!
9. VegasHustler - October 19, 2007 2:50 PM
I thought we had seen enough 300 paradies with the 10,000 homemade version on Youtube??
10. JC - October 19, 2007 3:23 PM
Red text on a white background? Consider me SOLD.
11. Grace - October 19, 2007 4:14 PM
You had me at Kevin Sorbo...
... what?
12. nominus - October 19, 2007 6:59 PM
VH. Representing for the CKT.
13. Mac - October 19, 2007 11:08 PM
The spoof movie needs to die. It's not funny anymore.
14. Kate - October 20, 2007 12:01 AM
I don't know if I really want to see Kevin Sorbo in this movie. I have been a fan of his for many years but I just don't like it when he does slapstick. I am not so fond of these spoof movies either. I did like the airplane ones but that's it.
15. Martin - October 20, 2007 3:27 AM
Jeebus, what crap!
Who gives these people money to produce these abominations?!
16. Beastman - October 20, 2007 4:17 AM
This looks even worse than Epic Movie. Watching Epic Movie was like being raped in the eyeballs by killer whales
17. TetterkeT - October 20, 2007 7:57 AM
If I ever meet anyone who pays to see this in the theater I'm going to follow them home and take a shit on their porch.
18. I'm Going To Watch This Movie - October 20, 2007 12:58 PM
And I'll be waiting to shove a fire extinguisher up your ass hole!
19. sam - October 20, 2007 2:19 PM
the last great spoof movie was Hot Shots. Oh and Hot Shots Part Deux was good, too.
20. Connor - October 20, 2007 9:30 PM
I guess the producers of these horrible parody films have realized that naming your film "[adjective] Movie" isn't good anymore, as seen here and with "The Comebacks".
Whatever happen to good spoofs that could actually hold a gun and not have to rely on shooting so many films that you can't realize the ones it shot it barely wounded.
21. spoodie - October 23, 2007 8:49 AM
:'(
22. Zee Brat - October 23, 2007 3:41 PM
I'm gonna go see it, because Kevin Sorbo was in it. That's what sold it for me... which is kind of sad.
23. LulWut - January 8, 2008 6:18 PM
Your just a fag who has no sense of humor and cant learn to laugh, Become An Hero
24. patrick - January 28, 2008 11:47 AM
how astoundingly unoriginal