10 Worst Movies Ever Released In January
2. Meet The Spartans
Release Date: 25 January 2008
Why It’s Bad: It’s another “hilarious” comedy from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the dire duo that also perpetrated Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Date Movie and Vampires Suck. Their films aren’t really spoofs – they just reference movies and TV shows while throwing in excrement jokes and phallocentric humor.
Meet The Spartans is their take on 300 and it’s a stain on the souls of the corporate suits at Fox who threw thirty million dollars at a movie whose idea of humor is having an army of Persian invaders whose number includes Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Along with Disaster Movie, this is a mainstay of IMDB’s Bottom 100 Movies.
What The Critics Said: “It’s rare that a movie makes me ill these days, and it’s rare that I can see a movie and hate the people behind it with such abhorrence, but Meet The Spartans rises to the challenge.” (Film Threat)