Meet the Spartans 2008

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the team behind Meet the Spartans, prove that ridiculing other movies is much easier than making your own. Read more

Steven Hyden, AV Club: While there's enough comedic material there for as many as three somewhat tolerable minutes of MADtv, Meet The Spartans gamely alternates between unfunny gay jokes and violent pratfalls for a good 80 minutes. Read more

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: It's a MADtv or Saturday Night Live sketch dressed up in feature-length clothing. It's way too much of an OK thing. And the way-too-much-ness goes on and on. Read more

Adam Graham, Detroit News: It's so bad even Carmen Electra should be embarrassed. Read more

Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly: The result in Meet the Spartans is less classic Mel Brooks than middling Best Week Ever. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: What's the point of making a parody that's dumber than the stuff it parodies? Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Speaking of YouTube, let me save you 65 minutes. Go to the website, type in United 300, and see a far funnier, far more clever 300 spoof that's only five minutes long. From last spring. Read more

Josh Levin, Slate: This was the worst movie I've ever seen, so bad that I hesitate to label it a 'movie' and thus reflect shame upon the entire medium of film. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Lazy, lame and painfully unfunny. Read more

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: I'm moving to Europe. Read more