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		<title>Meet the Spartans &#8211; Film Review</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the Spartans is simply a badly shaken cocktail of recent trivia, movies, celebrity moments and internet pop-culture – including the infamous “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!” video posted by Chris Crocker on YouTube as well as a mickey take bad mom of the year, head shaving Britney herself.

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			</div><div style="clear:both"></div><div style="padding-bottom:4px;"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">Background:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">I produce a local radio station show with some friends and we reviewed a film this is what i thought of it&#8230;</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">On Monday we saw ‘Meet The Spartans’ at Cineworld.</span></p>
<h1 style="margin: 24pt 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large; color: #365f91; font-family: Cambria;">Synopsis from website:</span></h1>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">After successfully skewering Hollywood’s scariest movie<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>(as two of the writers on “Scary Movie”), romantic comedy franchises (“Date Movie”), and Hollywood blockbusters (“Epic Movie”), writers/directors/producers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer now set their sights on “300.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 – count ‘em, 13 – Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p>
<div style="border-right: medium none; padding-right: 0cm; border-top: medium none; padding-left: 0cm; padding-bottom: 31pt; border-left: medium none; padding-top: 0cm; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-element: para-border-div; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt;">
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 31.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">That’s the synopsis from the official website, what they fail to point out that all the other films they have made, are almost identical to this one &#8211; Aiming for cheaper laughs then a comic who is claiming their pension. This film is obviously supposed to be a “parody” of the film 300. Time wise this is a short film, of just over an hour, of course the length of the film does not show how good it is, as long as its content is good. But I do not think this is the case with ‘Meet the Spartans’.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 31.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So who’s in it? The cast include: Sean <span style="color: #000000; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo, Diedrich Bader.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 31.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #000000; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Meet the Spartans is simply a badly shaken cocktail of recent trivia, movies, celebrity moments and internet pop-culture – including the infamous “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!” video posted by Chris Crocker on YouTube as well as a mickey take bad mom of the year, head shaving Britney herself.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 31.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #000000; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 31.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #000000; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This movie has MANY annoying aspects the most obvious being its target audience appears to be 10-year-olds with ADHD and a below average IQ, this is made clear by abnormally annoying narration – when Ken Davintian aka the fat guy from Borat makes his flamboyant appearance we are told that this character looks like the fat guy from Borat. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 31.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #000000; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The obvious gay jokes and poorly disguised innuendos get terribly boring after the first few scenes.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 31.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #000000; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 31.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #000000; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">While we understand that the purpose (if you can call it that) of this film is to parady trashy pop-culture, the writers blatant theft<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>of gags and cheap laughs from other sources are unimaginative and dull.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 31.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #000000; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 31.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #000000; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now after this rather critical review I’m sure some maybe more cautious before spending their few quid to see it, but if you are the type which enjoys a cheap laugh, it’s something to watch at your local cinema – but a definite must: STAY AT THE END! I know of countless people who walked out of pirates of the Caribbean who then missed that crucial minute at the end and this film is in the same.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 31.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #000000; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The ending sketches after the 5 minutes or so of credits, are arguably the best part. We stayed just to be sure we didn’t miss anything, and I’m glad we did or I fear this review may have no positives, the final jumble of sketches thrown on at the end show some trashy pop-culture including the Cruise George Bush, Tom Cruise as well as others being thrown into the pit.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 31.0pt 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #000000; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am not a fan of this form of comedy as you can tell as I think that diluted down one liners should never have the millions spent and the feature length cinema time wasted on them – Personally I’m a fan f original interesting comedy which keeps you laughing every time, I will take a good stand up any day!</span></span></span></p>
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