shit SINema: meet the spartans

As if Robot Chicken hadn’t worn out the now-famous “THIS IS SPARTA!” line by devoting ten segments to it, Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg have cooked up another steaming batch of shit soup for moviegoers to devour.

Who keeps signing off on all these lame-ass Seltzer-Friedberg projects anyway? Yes, we all know that Paris Hilton popularized the phrase “that’s hot”. And we’ve all put it behind us. There’s no reason to pluck it from obscurity to score a cheap laugh that will most likely not make it past the inaudible chuckle phase anyway.

Meet the Spartans offers all of the quality Seltzer-Friedberg humor that we’ve grown to love: fat jokes, midget jokes, gay jokes… there’s even a crack at Paula Abdul!

The only thing that would have been more predictable is if they titled the movie “Meet the Fartans”.

I’m not begging for the Mariana Trench, but I like my movies to have a bit more depth than a visual gag where Donald Trump’s hair is pulled off by Spiderman’s web.

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