Wow, what a bad movie. Even worse than Epic Movie. I’m a sucker for parody movies–I generally like even the worst of them, and love the mediocre ones. This one is pointless, and there is almost no redeeming value in it. You see, parody movies generally don’t make sense if they aren’t parodying movies within the same genre. If you watch Airplane!, it makes fun of airline/airport crisis movies. It doesn’t throw in James Bond movies, or slasher movies simply because some easy laughs could be derived from doing so. The Scary Movie series parodies slasher and supernatural flicks, and is judicious in what else it brings in from outside those genres. Meet the Spartans shows no such restraint, aspiring to nothing but cheap laughs. Sure, I chuckled a few times, but why is Britney Spears referenced in it? (and no, it is not cleverly inserted). Why is American Idol referenced in it? (that too, is not cleverly inserted). The movie succeeds when making fun of the ultra-violent and homosexual undercurrents of 300 and Hercules-type movies. Xena and Hercules pretty much parodied these themes in every conceivable way, so you would think the writers of Meet the Spartans could simply rip off the best ideas of those series (and no, simply having Kevin Sorbo in it does not add anything to the mix). Alas, they failed to do so, and Meet the Spartans is not even a worthy guilty pleasure. Don’t pay to see it, but if you can sneak in after Cloverfield, I guess its worth 75 minutes of your time if you have absolutely nothing else to do.