Meet the Spartan Review

31st of January I watched "Meet the Spartan", actually it's not a highly anticipated movie that i desire to watch, just one of my friend saw the ads on the newspaper, with words . Then i'm being dragged into this "Replica of Scary Movie premier night".

Actually from the movie poster, you can clearly know that this movie is the typical type of comedy movie, which the director Jason Friedberg choose to put in lots of entertainment factor that happened around the Hollywood. Describing the movie poster, you can see a Transformer-model standing at a very obvious position. There's Ghost Rider at the right hand side, baby shrek, "Spiderwoman", "Rocky", and even some of the popular singers are included in this movie. By only this movie poster you could have know what will happened in the story later, i bet.

Now we can get into the story in brief. Basically, for your information, this "Meet the Spartan" story is based on the story line of the movie "300", which describes the greediness, power-hunger, glory, and war between the two most ancient empires of Greeks. Even though this movie is based on another movie "300", but it has mixed with variety of elements from other popular movies or incidents happened on some artists. And all the laughing factors come straight from all that elements. However, i'm stunned by the way of presenting these laughing factors..

In the story, baby shrek is the first character introduced by the director Jason. If you know what a baby shrek will do, then you are right about the baby shrek is doing the same job he done on the King of the Far Far Away Kingdom, Shrek in the latest episode. Ya, he spewed, or vomited to the nearby person. Then there comes the King Leonidas (Sean Maguire) being trained to fight FEARLESSLY with his granny, and been through brutal torture which is James Bond-style we seen in Casino Royal, and playing survivor eating burger and fighting a Happy Feet. While you getting deeper into the story, the movie introduce you their "Funny" Killing machine, "The Pit of Death", where at this scene, a lot of funny characters kept popping up one by one. Briney-look-alike, S.Malakar from the American Idol, and all three judges from American Idol. Introduction of all these characters is actually for the King Leonidas to kick them down to the Pit of Death to be cleaned up. But there King Leonidas has kicked the Persian's embassador together down to the Pit of Death and declare war with the Persian.

Skipping some of the scene, King Leonidas finally gather 13 soldiers (not 300 soldier???) and gone to the war against the Persian (The king of Persian Xerxes makes the movie more enjoyable..). Skipping the fact that they had met with Paris Hilton, the important scene is the way that the King Leonidas and the Persian crashed in the war. They are actually doing street dance and this scene if not mistaken, is the story taken from the movie "Stomp the Yard". They dance all the way to compete against each other rather than fight using their sword and knife (But eventually they do so). At the fighting climax this movie included some elements of the game "Grand Thief Auto" and making the effects of the movie sounds more interesting than you have expected (King Leonidas actually holding a machine gun shooting around and running like a jammed robot).

Real climax reach when the king of Persian, Xerxes accidently picked up the transformer cube, and transformed himself along with a car, and becomes the "Xerxestron"......... But finally the "Xerxestron" has been defeated! by himself because the power cable which connects the "Xerxestron" to the plug (I dunno why there are plug came out of nowhere for "Xerxestron"...) disconnected. Disconnected of the power cable means the "Xerxestron" is not provided with power, it means will fall and destroyed, which means the victorious for the King Leonidas! But the matter is, when the "Xerxestron" falls, it falls right on the King Leonidas and his army's body.. Conclusion is, both king dies, no victory, no winner. And one last thing is, King Leonidas dies in a funny position... Watch out for that scene ok? :-)


You're lucky IF you're suitable for any kind of movies and still enjoy them. For this movie, actually it is not my cup of tea, especially when it involve with lots of artists' scandals.. But for those fellows who likes comedy and "Scary Movie" style of story, this movie is just made for their taste.

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