Meet the Spartans

Meet the Spartans
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written by
  • Jason Friedberg
  • Aaron Seltzer
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyShawn Maurer
Edited byPeck Prior
Music byChristopher Lennertz
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • January 25, 2008 (2008-01-25)
Running time
83 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million[2]
Box office$84.6 million[3]

Meet the Spartans is a 2008 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.[4] The film is mainly a parody of the 2006/2007 film 300, although it also references many other films, TV shows, people and pop cultural events of the time, in a manner similar to previous films that Friedberg and Seltzer had been involved in such as Scary Movie, Date Movie, and Epic Movie. The film stars Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, and Kevin Sorbo.

Meet the Spartans opened at No. 1 in the United States. Despite receiving extremely negative reviews and appearing on several lists of the worst films ever made, it was a box-office success, grossing $84 million on a budget of $30 million.[3]

  1. ^ "MEET THE SPARTANS (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. January 11, 2008. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  2. ^ "Meet the Spartans (2008) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Meet the Spartans at IMDb