Pun Salad

What was I thinking? Watching Strange Wilderness a couple days ago, and now Meet the Spartans. Maybe I should just give up watching movies. Now, Meet the Spartans is slightly funnier than Strange Wilderness. But that's like saying Britney Spears seems to have her life a little more together than does Lindsay Lohan.

Oh, yeah: since this is "one of those" spoof movies, both Lohan and Spears are targets. And American Idol. And Ellen Degeneres. And Sylvester Stallone. And the penguins in Happy Feet. And … well, the general idea seemed to be: throw in enough pop culture references to pad the movie out to 90 minutes or so, never mind if they are actually funny or not. And they're nearly all not.

It's essentially a spoof of a good movie, 300. It was written and directed by a couple of guys who also wrote and directed some of the Scary Movie series. Those weren't great, but they weren't this bad, either. I like tacky spoofs. This is just mostly stupid. I'm sorry.