This is Sparta!
Comedy."Getting Acquainted with the Spartans", a parody of the latest blockbusters and popular TV shows, was as crazy as it is generally possible to imagine - the hunchbacked Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in the Well of Death is not the strangest thing that happens here.
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Zeltser
Cast: Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo, Didrich Bader, ...
Chasing the husky voices of the unforgettable I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor, 13 (!) Spartans dancing to the Thermopylae - to battle with the army of formidable Xerxes. Behind his native Sparta is the realm of firm rules. If a green shrek baby is born here, he is thrown from the cliff. If the baby is Asian, give Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. If a woman gave birth to a suitable baby - bearded and with cubes on his stomach, he is brought up as a warrior. In front of the Spartans waiting for blood and glory, fat Xerxes, hunchbacked Paris Hilton and the most idiotic Transformer, which only endured the film.
Already at the very beginning, with the appearance of the monstrous talking penguin, with whom King Leonid must fight, everything becomes clear. If other parody movies, such as the "Naked Pistol", "Hotheads" and even "The Scary Movie", are purification procedures, ritual murder of the demeanor of the Hollywood cliches, then "Spartans" is hell, where films and media ghosts , like Paris Hilton, after death. Here they are tormented by small demons, not the last of which are the directors of the paintings Jason Friedberg and Aaron Zeltser, who have already shot "Very Epic Cinema" and "Thrill".
They do it without hatred, more likely even with love - so the surgeon can tenderly talk about the tumor that devours the patient's body. The problem (if there is a problem here at all) is that both guys are insane as canaries on ecstasy. In the well of death, where Leonid drops Persian ambassadors, fly the brazen Britney Spears, the judges and the leaders of the popular TV show, Paris Hilton appears with a crooked hump and bony hand - the consequences of imprisonment, on the back of the Spartan queen (thrash queen Carmen Electra) Borat "and fat producer-villain from the actual" Borat "Ken Davitian appears in the role of Xerxes.
But Friedberg and Zeltser are insane not because of their excessiveness - after all, like our craziness, our "Best Film" has collected very good money, and its creators can not be called insane. It's just that there is no parody - friends selflessly build their own world out of improvised garbage, like the nightmare of a projectionist, year after year forced to watch everything that goes in theaters, and in the evening, coming home - watching together with his wife a popular TV show. "There is the only woman in the world you should trust, Leonid," his wife tells the tsar. "Oprah ...", - he nods knowingly.
The film was not shown to critics in America before the premiere, fearing carpet bombing. After the premiere, the page for comments on the movie on imdb was filled literally with kilometers of messages beginning with the words "This is literally the worst film I've ever seen." Not surprisingly, there are so many of them - with a budget of 18 million, the film raised 34 million. Revenge is sweet, and revenge on producers is respectable, but no less idiotic than "Getting to know the Spartans," movies and blunt television shows - especially.
And if you go to this monstrous, insipid, importunate film that implicates the film from which this or that joke is taken, the persian cat is shitting in the sandbox of the Sandman, and the Transformer is tangled in a cord stuck into the socket, you will never laugh - nor when a penguin appears, nor when King Leonid depicts the Wookiees - it's bad. Either you did not see all these films, or you like them, or you made a mistake with the door - "Alexander" Sokurov show somewhere in the next room.