Product Details

• Actors: Jason Friedberg
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: June 3, 2008
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (97 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00177YA06
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,926 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Meet the Spartans (Unrated 'Pit of Death' Edition)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Prepare to fight... back tears of laughter watching this ferociously funny Unrated "Pit of Death" Special Edition of Meet the Spartans - with ruder cruder footage not shown in theaters and an army of hysterical historical special features!The battle begins when the heroic Leonidas armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape leads a ragtag group of 13 - count'em 13! - warriors to defend their homeland against the invading Persians whose ranks include Ghost Rider Rocky Balboa the Transformers and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton!System Requirements:Running Time: 87 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/PARODY & SPOOF Rating: UNRATED UPC: 024543519058 Manufacturer No: 2251905

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pit of Death?, July 3, 2008

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C. Ian Alderman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meet the Spartans (Unrated 'Pit of Death' Edition) (DVD)

I'll have to admit, watching this movie the first time, there were some quick laughs, and it caught my attention. Sometimes, I feel the jokes were drawn out way too long, and that's a shame. If I were a 14 or 15 year old, I'd probably give this all 5 stars. This definitely isn't a movie in which you can watch over and over again. When you're bored, or strung out from the job, or the weekly grind is just too much and you want to let loose for a brief moment, go ahead. Otherwise, this movie is dime a dozen, in the ranks of The Comebacks, Epic Movie, etc etc etc.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Jokes were hit and miss, April 27, 2010

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M. Bell (seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meet the Spartans (Unrated 'Pit of Death' Edition) (DVD)

MTS started out great. Some of the jokes had me literally LOL, which rarely happens with movies anymore. At other times, the jokes lingered far too long. The pit of death (american idol), top model, and deal or no deal sequences seem out of place (even for a parody) and last far too long. In fact, any of the modern-day inclusions only hurt the movie. The movie was strongest when the jokes were centered around 300. I cracked up when Leonidas was sparring with his son. I guess my biggest complaint was the ongoing gay joke. That might have worked 20 years ago. It's not a complaint from a tolerance perspective, it's just that we've seen it done before... too many times. I also didn't care for the wife (the actress or the character which was nothing like the one in 300).

35 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You could buy it... but I'm sure you can find a cheaper COASTER out there somewhere., June 8, 2008

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Chris Kennison (Jefferson City, Mo United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Meet the Spartans (Unrated 'Pit of Death' Edition) (DVD)

Unbearable.

All that needs to be said. Complete trash. I'm not sure at what point, pop-culture references became funny just by themselves. I guy dressed up like Sanjaya from American Idol pops out of nowhere and they kick him into a pit. Then the 3 person American Idol panel. Britney Spears and K-fed.

There's no setup. There's no nothing. If this is what has come of hollywood spoof comedies... I'm done... and now that we've seen a long string of these comedic failures pour out into the theatres and people actually pay for them... legitimizing them... we'll probably see more. It's a sad day in Hollywood.

Thousands of scripts are written every year that should be funded and produced before trash like this. When a supposed comedy does nothing but make this viewer angry... it's awful.

Everyone should be offended that cheap, brainless, here's a pop-culture reference and here's another type movies are being produced like MEET THE SPARTANS. We deserve better from people who are making millions hand over fist and can only come up with DATE MOVIE, EPIC MOVIE, LITTLE MAN, WHITE CHICKS and MEET THE SPARTANS.