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{{Infobox Film
| name = Meet the Spartans
| playername = Christian Panucci
| image =
| image = Meet the Spartans poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| fullname = Christian Panucci
| director = [[Jason Friedberg]]<br>[[Aaron Seltzer]]
| height = {{height|m=1.84}}
| producer = [[Jason Friedberg]]<br>[[Aaron Seltzer]]<br>[[Peter Safran]]
| nickname =
| writer = [[Jason Friedberg]]<br>[[Aaron Seltzer]]
| dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1973|4|12}}
| starring = [[Sean Maguire]]<br>[[Carmen Electra]]<br>[[Ken Davitian]]<br>[[Kevin Sorbo]]<br>[[Diedrich Bader]]<br>[[Method Man]]<br>[[Nicole Parker]]
| cityofbirth = [[Savona]]
| countryofbirth = [[Italy]]
| music = [[Christopher Lennertz]]
| distributor = [[20th Century Fox]]<br>[[Regency Enterprises]]
| currentclub = [[A.S. Roma|Roma]]
| released = January 25, 2008
| clubnumber = 2
| runtime = '''Theatrical cut'''<br>83 min.<br>'''Extended cut'''<br>86 min.
| position = [[Defender (football)|Right back]], [[Defender (football)|Centre back]]
| country = United States
| youthyears =
| youthclubs = [[Genoa C.F.C.|Genoa]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| preceded_by = [[Epic Movie]]
| years = 1992&ndash;1993<br/>1993&ndash;1996<br />1996&ndash;1999<br />1999&ndash;2000<br />2000&ndash;2001<br/>2001<br/>2001&ndash;
| followed_by = [[Disaster Movie]]
| clubs = [[Genoa C.F.C.|Genoa]]<br/> [[A.C. Milan|Milan]]<br /> [[Real Madrid]]<br/> [[F.C. Internazionale Milano|Internazionale]]<br/> → [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] (loan)<br/> → [[AS Monaco FC|Monaco]] (loan)<br /> [[A.S. Roma|Roma]]
| budget = $30,000,000
| caps(goals) = {{0}}31 {{0}}(3)<br/>{{0}}89 {{0}}(9)<br/>{{0}}73 {{0}}(3)<br/>{{0}}26 {{0}}(1)<br/>{{0}}{{0}}8 {{0}}(0)<br/>{{0}}14 {{0}}(3)<br/>207 (17)
| gross = $84,172,546
| nationalyears = 1992&ndash;1996<br/>1993<br/>1994-2008
| website = http://www.meetthespartans.com/
| nationalteam = [[Italy national under-21 football team|Italy U-21]]<br/> Italy U-23<br />[[Italy national football team|Italy]]
| amg_id = 1:422457
| nationalcaps(goals) = {{0}}19 {{0}}(4)<br />{{0}}{{0}}3 {{0}}(0)<br />{{0}}57 {{0}}(4)
| imdb_id = 1073498
| pcupdate = [[May 18]] [[2008]]
| ntupdate = [[June 22]] [[2008]]
}}
}}


'''''Meet the Spartans''''' is a 2008 [[parody film]] directed by [[Jason Friedberg]] and [[Aaron Seltzer]]. Similar to past movies, such as ''[[Scary Movie]]'', ''[[Epic Movie]]'' and ''[[Date Movie]]'', it pokes fun at various movies. Although it references many movies, TV shows, people and pop cultural events, it focuses mainly on the 2007 "historical" war film ''[[300 (film)|300]]''. The film is rated PG-13 in the US and 12 in the UK for [[crude humor|crude]] and [[sexual content|sexual humor]] throughout, [[profanity|language]], and some [[cartoon violence|comic violence]].
'''Christian Panucci''' (born [[April 12]] [[1973]] in [[Savona]]) is an [[Italy|Italian]] [[association football|football]] player who currently plays for [[A.S. Roma|AS Roma]] of Italian [[Serie A]], as well as with the [[Italy national football team|Italian national team]]. Panucci is a free scoring [[defender (football)|defender]] who usually plays on the right-hand side, but he can also play on the left or in the centre of defence.
==Plot==
{{Plot|date=September 2008}}
The film opens with a [[Spartan]] elder inspecting a baby which resembles [[Shrek the Third|Shrek]]. The baby vomits on the inspector and is then rejected and punted off the hill. With the next baby in hand, the narrator says as it is [[Vietnamese]], [[Brangelina]] gets first dibs. Baby [[Leonidas]] is then inspected, having a [[rectus abdominis muscle|six-pack]], biceps, and beard from birth. He is accepted as a Spartan and prepared for kinghood through his childhood training, from fighting his grandmother to enduring [[Casino Royale (2006 film)|James Bond-style torture]] at the hands of [[Le Chiffre]]. Leonidas ([[Sean Maguire]]) is then cast out into the wild, and survives the harsh winter while killing a giant dancing [[penguin]]. Returning a king for his inauguration ceremony, Leonidas sees [[Gorgo, Queen of Sparta|Margo]] ([[Carmen Electra]]) dancing and asks her to marry him, to which she responds by giving him the combination to her [[chastity belt]].


The film then fast forwards to where the story begins, opening with Leonidas [[Child abuse|training]] his son, until Captain ([[Kevin Sorbo]]) informs him that a Persian messenger (bling and all) has arrived. The messenger has come to present [[Xerxes I|Xerxes]]' demands for Sparta's submission. Leonidas arrives to greet the messenger in the Spartan way (high-fives for the women and open mouth tongue kisses for the men). After growing angry with the messenger's disrespect, Leonidas kicks him, the messenger's bodyguards, and then several other people he simply disliked, ranging from [[Britney Spears]] ([[Nicole Parker]]) and [[Kevin Federline]] ([[Nick Steele]]) to [[Sanjaya Malakar]] ([[Tony Yalda]]) and the ''[[American Idol]]'' [[judges]]. As Leonidas walks off he turns to a column, that has a switch that reads "[[Garbage Disposal]]", and flips the switch causing the celebrities to spiral to their "death".
== Career ==
Fag


Resolving to face the [[Persians]], Leonidas visits the [[Oracle]], proposing an "erotic-sounding" strategy to repel the numerically superior enemy after offering the priests various skin-care lotions for guidance. The Oracle, [[Ugly Betty]] ([[Crista Flanagan]]), reveals that Leonidas will die should he go to war. That night, Leonidas and Margo then decide to "pump some iron" before Leonidas leaves for Thermopylae, which in fact is just Leonidas [[bench pressing]] his wife one hundred times. Leonidas then goes out to meet the soldiers assembled for his departure, and finds that only 13 (not 300) were accepted in the army, since there were stringent specifications to be accepted (one of which is having a Mediterranean tan). Three among them include Captain, his son, Sonio, and a slightly unfit Spartan named Dilio. Once at the Hot Gates, they encounter [[Paris Hilton]] (also played by Parker), who Leonidas rejected from joining their army due to her mild deformities.
=== International career ===
Panucci made his debut in September 1994 (against [[Slovenia national football team|Slovenia]] in a Euro 96 qualifier. However, he missed out on the final squad following a dispute with Italian national coach [[Arrigo Sacchi]] and was not a regular in the [[Italy national football team|Italian national team]] until the 2002 World Cup. He has 48 caps and two goals, as of the end of 2004. He played for his country at the [[2002 FIFA World Cup|2002 World Cup]] and [[UEFA Euro 2004|Euro 2004]].


Leonidas and his platoon soon face off with Xerxes' messenger and his Immortals, beating them in a [[Stop the Yard|dance contest]] before driving them off a cliff. [[Xerxes I|Xerxes]] ([[Ken Davitian]]), impressed, personally approaches Leonidas and attempts to bribe him in a ''[[Deal or No Deal]]'' fashion. Despite the soldiers' encouragements, the Spartan king declines, saying that he will instead make the "God King" fall. The Spartans then face the Xerxes army in a "[[Yo Momma]]" fight, ending with a victory, in spite of Dilio having his eyes scratched out. Though victory seemed to be in the Spartans' grasp, Paris Hilton betrays the Spartans and reveals the location of the goat path to Xerxes, having been promised her hump removed among her various demands. Using a [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] army, Xerxes meets the 12 remaining Spartans and the war is on.
In the 2002 World Cup, Panucci was widely blamed{{Fact|date=April 2008}} for failing to clear a pass that led to the equalising goal by [[Seol Ki-Hyun]] in the dying minutes of the round of 16 match.


Meanwhile, back in Sparta, Queen Margo sexually submits to Traitoro in order to persuade him to send more troops to assist Leonidas. He states that he will finally lose his virginity while using his cell phone to take pictures. However, he reveals publicly that she has not been chaste. The anger at this revelation provokes a [[Venom (comics)|symbiote suit]] to envelop her, mirroring the parasitic symbiote Spider-Man suit in ''[[Spider-Man 3]]''. She fights with Traitoro, who, in line with the parody, becomes the ''Spider-Man 3'' villain the [[Sandman (Marvel Comics)|Sandman]]. Margo wins the battle with a vacuum cleaner - and Traitoro's treachery is revealed, whereupon Sparta agrees to send more troops. However, the Spartan decision to send troops comes too late, as Xerxes and the Persian army fight the Spartans, who refuse to retreat. The battle initially starts well for the Spartans, but the tide turns as the Persians introduce their secret weapons: [[Ghost Rider]], who is quickly defeated, and [[Rocky Balboa]], who decapitates Sonio with one right hook but getting killed by a vengeful Captain, who plunges a Botox-laced syringe into his head. Captain then gets killed by a spear, thrown through his torso by Xerxes.
Panucci had not played for Italy for over three years after [[UEFA Euro 2004|Euro 2004]] in [[Portugal]], having been ignored by [[Marcello Lippi]] with whom he had fallen out with in his days at Inter, for the period of the 2006 World Cup. However, the 34 year-old was given a second chance by coach [[Roberto Donadoni]], who called him up for the [[Euro 2008|European Championship]] qualifiers against [[Georgia national football team|Georgia]], [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] and the [[Faroe Islands national football team|Faroe Islands]].


Captain's death enrages Leonidas, and the battle sequence switches to a [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|Grand Theft Auto]]-esque format as he runs through the Persian Army and corners Xerxes. While running away, Xerxes finds the [[Allspark|"Transformer Cube"]] and harnesses its power to combine with a convertible and turn into [[Megatron|"Xerxestron"]], playing [[Chris Crocker (internet celebrity)|"Leave Britney Alone"]] videos to prove his "godly power". But Xerxestron ends up delivering on Leonidas's promise to "fall", as his power cord disconnects and he falls forward, crushing the surviving Spartans under his bulk. Thus the narrator concludes, "Leonidas was true to his word: a god-king did fall ... but unfortunately, right on them!" The blind Dilio, who left prior to the final battle, eventually returns to Sparta to tell of Leonidas' final moments. A year later, Dilio leads a force a hundred real Spartans and several thousand CGI-ones to defeat the Persians, but the blind warrior ends up going the wrong way and leads the Spartans to Malibu. They end up crashing into [[Lindsay Lohan]] as she once more leaves [[drug rehab]], causing her to expose her [[upskirt|bare groin]] and fly off screen.
Panucci then expressed his delight at earning his 50th Italy cap in the stadium where he began his career for the Azzurri in the 2-0 win over Georgia in their [[UEFA Euro 2008|Euro 2008]] qualifying tie in [[Genoa]]. Panucci came through the port club's youth ranks before joining [[AC Milan]] in [[1993]].
<blockquote>"It was really emotional for me to play in an arena where I grew up. It may have seemed a little scripted but I'll never forget the standing ovation I received."</blockquote>


The film ends with a musical number set to [[Gloria Gaynor|Gloria Gaynor's]] "[[I Will Survive]]" performed on ''[[American Idol]]'' by all of the characters in the film. It also spoofs Britney Spears' [[MTV Video Music Awards|VMA's]] comeback performance.
Panucci has currently 55 caps for the Azzurri, with 4 goals. He managed to score his first international goal for the Azzuri since April 2002, when he headed a crucial [[Stoppage time|injury-time]] winning goal against [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] on [[November 17]] [[2007]] in their [[UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying Group B|Euro 2008 qualifying Group B]] match. [[Italy national football team|Italy]] then managed to clinch their place at the [[UEFA Euro 2008|European Championship finals]].


==== Euro 2008 ====
==Cast==
* [[Sean Maguire]] as [[Leonidas I|King Leonidas]]
On [[June 13]], he scored Italy's first goal against [[Romania national football team|Romania]] in [[UEFA Euro 2008|Euro 2008]] <ref>[http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/tournament/matches/match=300695/index.html Italy vs Romania match report]</ref> and became the oldest player to score in outfield play in the competition.
* [[Carmen Electra]] as [[Gorgo, Queen of Sparta|Queen Margo]]
* [[Ken Davitian]] as Emperor [[Xerxes]]
* [[Kevin Sorbo]] as Captain
* [[Jareb Dauplaise]] as Dilio
* [[Travis Van Winkle]] as Sonio
* [[Diedrich Bader]] as Councilman Traitoro
* Hunter Clary as [[Leo Jr]].
* [[Phil Morris]] as Messenger
* [[Method Man]] as Persian Emissary
* [[Nicole Parker]] as [[Paris Hilton]], [[Britney Spears]], [[Ellen DeGeneres]] and [[Paula Abdul]] - ''[[Extra (film)|Extra]]'', ''[[MADtv]]'', ''[[The Ellen DeGeneres Show]]'' and ''[[American Idol]]''
* Ryan Fraley as [[Jack Black]]
* [[Zachary Dylan Smith]] as [[Leonidas I|Little Leonidas]]
* Tiffany Claus as [[Angelina Jolie]]
* [[Nick Steele (actor)|Nick Steele]] as [[Kevin Federline]]
* [[Ike Barinholtz]] as Bond Villain, Prophet, [[Dane Cook]] (in [[deleted scenes|extended version]])
* [[Tony Yalda]] as [[Sanjaya Malakar]] - ''American Idol''
* Christopher Lett as [[Randy Jackson]] - ''American Idol''
* [[Crista Flanagan]] as [[Oracle (Matrix)|Oracle]]/[[Ugly Betty]]
* Jesse Lewis IV as Ms. Jay Alexander
* Jenny Costa as [[Tyra Banks]]
* Belinda Waymouth as [[Twiggy]]
* [[Dean Cochran]] as [[Rocky Balboa]]
* Emily Wilson as [[Lindsay Lohan]]
* John Di Domenico as [[Jack Thompson (actor)|Jack Thompson]]
* Jon Cruz (ABDC) [[cameo appearance]]
* Rufino Puno (ABDC)[[cameo appearance]]


Four of the actors in ''Meet the Spartans'' also appeared in ''[[Epic Movie]]''. Carmen Electra played [[Mystique (comics)|Mystique]], [[Jim Piddock]] played [[Magneto (comics)|Magneto]], [[Jareb Dauplaise]] played [[Nacho Libre]], and [[Crista Flanagan]] played [[Hermione Granger]].
== Personal life ==
In 1996, Panucci narrowly avoided death due to a change of flight plans. He was part of the Italy squad at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], but had to leave the team due to injury. Panucci was scheduled to leave the United States on [[TWA Flight 800]] that crashed into the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. But a last-minute change of flight plans saved his life.


== Parodies ==
Panucci was married to a Spanish woman and their child, Juan was born in March 2001. However, they have divorced and he is currently dating [[Rosaria Cannavò]]. Panucci even has a tattoo of his son's name on his arm, proving how close he is to his son.
*''300'': Main Parody
*''[[Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan]]'': When Rocky Balboa knocks off the head of one of the spartans.
*''[[Heroes]]'': Queen Margo says, "Save the cheerleader, save the world."
*''[[Meet The Parents]]'': The title parodies a number of "Meet the " titles
*''[[Spider Man 3]]'': Queen Margo puts up a black [[Spider Man]] outfit and starts attacking Traitiro that suddenly became the [[Sandman]]
*''[[Transformers]]'': Xerxes suddenly finds the allspark, turning himself into "Xerxestron"
*''[[You Got Served]]'': The dancing scene between the Spartans against the Immortals
*''[[Casino Royale]]'': The torture scene in the start of the film
*''[[Happy Feet]]'': The giant dancing penguin
*"[[Subway (restaurant)]]": Just before the scene with the dancing penguin
*''[[American Idol]]'': At the beginning when Leonidas kicked the messengers and when everyone is singing at the end.
*''[[Ghost Rider]]'': During the last battle
*''[[Rocky Balboa]]'': After ghost rider.
*''[[Shrek The Third]]'': In the opening sequence.
*''[[Galaxy Quest]]'': Dilio says: "Never give up, never surrender!"
*''[[Toy Story]]'': Dilio says: "To infinity and beyond"
*''[[Hot Fuzz]]'': "Stop the violence"
*''[[Star Wars]]''
*''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'': During the last battle, Leonidas also dons a ''San Andreas'' tattoo on his abdomen. A fight scene mocking the game, complete with a [[HUD (computer gaming)|HUD]], can be seen.
*''[[Dentine Ice]]''


==Critical reception==
Panucci owns a restaurant in the [[Dominican Republic]] called Cafe Milano.
{{Cleanup-section|date=August 2008}}
The film received incredibly negative reviews from critics. As of May 19, 2008, the review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported that 2% of all critics gave the film positive reviews and 0% positive reviews from top critics based on 41 reviews with an average rating of 1.8/10; citing consensus opinion on the title as "A tired, unfunny, offensive waste of time ... [which] scrapes the bottom of the cinematic barrel." <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/meet_the_spartans/ |title=Meet the Spartans - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes |accessdate=2008-01-28 |publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref> [[Metacritic]] reported the film had an average score of 9 out of 100, based on 11 reviews &mdash; indicating "extreme dislike or disgust" and being the worst received film by the director on the site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/meetthespartans |title=Meet the Spartans (2008): Reviews |accessdate=2008-01-28 |publisher=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref>


One reviewer in Scotland's ''[[The Sunday Herald]]'' gave the film a score of zero, as did Ireland's Day and Night while an Australian newspaper review described it as being "as funny as a burning [[orphanage]]". In [[London]], ''[[The Times]]'' reviewer Wendy Ide suggested that the producers of the film were not aiming for 'laughs' but "a simian grunt of recognition from an audience that must have been practically brain-dead to fork out £10 to see a film that can’t even master the concept of [[outtake|out-takes]]?". Currently, this film is the lowest-rated of the 2008 film season.
== Honours ==
===AC Milan===
Most of the film's criticism consisted of not having many actual jokes and instead having an overreliance of [[pop culture]] references<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?JSESSIONID=qpm9HhsDPFLpzJ9MfRpVc5QvzVf1Z16Kb64GVWKpFfFdcLTVcpfD!-1562314872&&rid=10537 |title=Meet the Spartans - Bottom Line: "300" was funnier. |accessdate=2008-01-28 |publisher=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref>. Several recurring gags were criticized for being overused, such as throwing various celebrities down the Pit of Death or the ambiguous homosexuality of the Spartans.
*'''[[Serie A]]''':
**1993-94, 1995-96
*'''[[Supercoppa Italiana]]'''
**1993, 1994
*'''[[UEFA Champions League]]'''
**1993-94
*'''[[UEFA Super Cup]]'''
**1994


Upon news of ''Meet the Spartans'' box office success, ''[[The Soup]]'' staff created a sketch that parodies all previous "Parody Movies" by mentioning the film's weak comedy stunts. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpWOZmp6ajY]
===Real Madrid===
*'''[[UEFA Champions League]]'''
**1997-1998
*'''[[Intercontinental Cup (football)|Intercontinental Cup]]'''
**1998


The film currently holds a rating of 2.4 out of 10 at the [[Internet Movie Database]].
===A.S. Roma===
*'''[[Coppa Italia]]'''
**[[Coppa Italia 2006-07|2006-07]], [[Coppa Italia 2007-08|2007-08]]
*'''[[Supercoppa Italiana]]'''
**[[2007 Italian Super Cup|2007]]


==Box office performance==
==Career statistics==
Despite the overwhelmingly negative critical reaction (the film has a 2% "Rotten" rating at [[Rotten Tomatoes]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/meet_the_spartans/|title=Meet the Spartans Movie Reviews|accessdate = 2008-04-07}}</ref>), the film opened #1 at the US box office, grossing $18,505,530 over its opening weekend,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/charts/weekly/2008/20080125.php|title=US Movie Box Office Chart Weekend of January 25, 2008|accessdate = 2008-01-31 |publisher = The Numbers}}</ref> narrowly edging out fellow newcomer ''[[Rambo (film)|Rambo]]'', which was briefly parodied in the credits of this film. The film grossed $38,233,676 in the United States and Canada and grossed $45,787,889 in foreign countries adding to an international gross of $84,021,565. ''Meet the Spartans'' for the first week came in #1, second week was at #4, then the third week it was #9.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=meetthespartans.htm | title=Weekend Grosses of ''Meet the Spartans'' | publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]] | accessdate=2008-10-10}}</ref>
<ref>[http://www.asroma.it/LaSquadraDoc.aspx?Numero=30 Benvenuto nel sito ufficiale dell'ASROMA CALCIO<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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|[[Serie A 1993-94|1993-94]]||rowspan="4"|[[A.C. Milan|Milan]]||rowspan="4"|[[Serie A]]||19||2||||||||||||||||
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|[[Serie A 1994-95|1994-95]]||28||2||||||||||||||||
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|[[Serie A 1995-96|1995-96]]||29||5||||||||||||||||
|-
|[[Serie A 1996-97|1996-97]]||13||0||||||||||||||||
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|[[La Liga 1996-97|1996-97]]||rowspan="3"|[[Real Madrid C.F.|Real Madrid]]||rowspan="3"|[[La Liga]]||19||2||||||||||||||||
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|[[La Liga 1997-98|1997-98]]||23||1||||||||||||||||
|-
|[[La Liga 1998-99|1998-99]]||31||0||||||||||||||||
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|[[Serie A 1999-00|1999-00]]||[[F.C. Internazionale Milano|Internazionale Milano]]||[[Serie A]]||26||1||||||||||||||||
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|[[FA Premier League 2000-01|2000-01]]||[[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]||[[Premier League]]||8||0||||||||||||||||
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|-
|[[Division 1 season 2000-01|2000-01]]||rowspan="2"|[[AS Monaco FC|Monaco]]||rowspan="2"|[[Ligue 1|Division 1]]||9||3||||||||||||||||
|-
|[[Division 1 season 2001-02|2001-02]]||5||0||||||||||||||||
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|[[Serie A 2001-02|2001-02]]||rowspan="8"|[[A.S. Roma|Roma]]||rowspan="8"|[[Serie A]]||31||1||||||||||||||||
|-
|[[Serie A 2002-03|2002-03]]||29||1||||||||||||||||
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|[[Serie A 2003-04|2003-04]]||24||2||||||||||||||||
|-
|[[Serie A 2004-05|2004-05]]||26||0||||||||||||||||
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|[[Serie A 2005-06|2005-06]]||36||3||||||||||||||||
|-
|[[Serie A 2006-07|2006-07]]||34||5||||||||||||||||
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|[[Serie A 2007-08|2007-08]]||27||5||5||0||colspan="2"|-||6||1||38||6
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|[[Serie A 2008-09|2008-09]]||3||2|||||||||||1||1|||
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==DVD release==
==International goals==
The film was released on [[DVD]] on June 3, 2008. It was released in a "Unrated Pit of Death" Edition and a [[PG-13]]/theatrical release of the film, as well as a [[Blu-Ray]] release. The theatrical cut will not include extras but will include widescreen and full screen versions on one dual disc. A "ruder & cruder" version was later released in the UK on August 18.
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==See also==
|+ '''<big>Christian Panucci: International Goals</big>'''
*''[[Spy Hard]]
! # !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition
*''[[Scary Movie]]''
|-
*''[[Date Movie]]''
| 1. || [[8 October]], [[1994]] || [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]] || {{fb|EST}} || 2-0 || Win || [[1996 European Football Championship (qualifying)|UEFA Euro 1996 Qual.]]
*''[[Epic Movie]]''
|-
*''[[Superhero Movie]]''
| 2. || [[17 April]], [[2002]] || [[Milan]], [[Italy]] || {{fb|URU}} || 1-1 ||Draw || Friendly
*''[[Disaster Movie]]''
|-
*''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]''
| 3. || [[17 November]], [[2007]] ||[[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]] || {{fb|SCO}} || 1-2 || Win || [[2008 European Football Championship (qualifying)|UEFA Euro 2008 Qual.]]

|-
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| 4. || [[13 June]], [[2008]] || [[Zurich]], [[Switzerland]] || {{fb|ROM}} || 1-1 || Draw || [[2008 European Football Championship|UEFA Euro 2008]]
|}


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.meetthespartans.com/ Official site]
*[http://archivio.inter.it/cgi-bin/giocatori-scheda?codice=G0473&L=en archivio.inter.it]
* {{imdb title|id=1073498|title=Meet the Spartans}}
*[http://www.asromacalcio.it/LaSquadraDoc.aspx?Numero=30 asromacalcio.it]
* {{amg movie|id=1:422457|title=Meet the Spartans}}
*[http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UCL/Players/Player=20437/index.html uefa.com]
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{{Box Office Leaders USA
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| before = [[Cloverfield]]
{{Italy Squad 2002 World Cup}}
| date = January 27
{{Italy Squad 2004 UEFA Euro}}
| year = 2008
{{Italy Squad 2008 Euro Cup}}
| after = [[Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert]]

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Meet the Spartans
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Written byJason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Produced byJason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Peter Safran
StarringSean Maguire
Carmen Electra
Ken Davitian
Kevin Sorbo
Diedrich Bader
Method Man
Nicole Parker
Music byChristopher Lennertz
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Regency Enterprises
Release date
January 25, 2008
Running time
Theatrical cut
83 min.
Extended cut
86 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30,000,000
Box office$84,172,546

Meet the Spartans is a 2008 parody film directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Similar to past movies, such as Scary Movie, Epic Movie and Date Movie, it pokes fun at various movies. Although it references many movies, TV shows, people and pop cultural events, it focuses mainly on the 2007 "historical" war film 300. The film is rated PG-13 in the US and 12 in the UK for crude and sexual humor throughout, language, and some comic violence.

Plot

The film opens with a Spartan elder inspecting a baby which resembles Shrek. The baby vomits on the inspector and is then rejected and punted off the hill. With the next baby in hand, the narrator says as it is Vietnamese, Brangelina gets first dibs. Baby Leonidas is then inspected, having a six-pack, biceps, and beard from birth. He is accepted as a Spartan and prepared for kinghood through his childhood training, from fighting his grandmother to enduring James Bond-style torture at the hands of Le Chiffre. Leonidas (Sean Maguire) is then cast out into the wild, and survives the harsh winter while killing a giant dancing penguin. Returning a king for his inauguration ceremony, Leonidas sees Margo (Carmen Electra) dancing and asks her to marry him, to which she responds by giving him the combination to her chastity belt.

The film then fast forwards to where the story begins, opening with Leonidas training his son, until Captain (Kevin Sorbo) informs him that a Persian messenger (bling and all) has arrived. The messenger has come to present Xerxes' demands for Sparta's submission. Leonidas arrives to greet the messenger in the Spartan way (high-fives for the women and open mouth tongue kisses for the men). After growing angry with the messenger's disrespect, Leonidas kicks him, the messenger's bodyguards, and then several other people he simply disliked, ranging from Britney Spears (Nicole Parker) and Kevin Federline (Nick Steele) to Sanjaya Malakar (Tony Yalda) and the American Idol judges. As Leonidas walks off he turns to a column, that has a switch that reads "Garbage Disposal", and flips the switch causing the celebrities to spiral to their "death".

Resolving to face the Persians, Leonidas visits the Oracle, proposing an "erotic-sounding" strategy to repel the numerically superior enemy after offering the priests various skin-care lotions for guidance. The Oracle, Ugly Betty (Crista Flanagan), reveals that Leonidas will die should he go to war. That night, Leonidas and Margo then decide to "pump some iron" before Leonidas leaves for Thermopylae, which in fact is just Leonidas bench pressing his wife one hundred times. Leonidas then goes out to meet the soldiers assembled for his departure, and finds that only 13 (not 300) were accepted in the army, since there were stringent specifications to be accepted (one of which is having a Mediterranean tan). Three among them include Captain, his son, Sonio, and a slightly unfit Spartan named Dilio. Once at the Hot Gates, they encounter Paris Hilton (also played by Parker), who Leonidas rejected from joining their army due to her mild deformities.

Leonidas and his platoon soon face off with Xerxes' messenger and his Immortals, beating them in a dance contest before driving them off a cliff. Xerxes (Ken Davitian), impressed, personally approaches Leonidas and attempts to bribe him in a Deal or No Deal fashion. Despite the soldiers' encouragements, the Spartan king declines, saying that he will instead make the "God King" fall. The Spartans then face the Xerxes army in a "Yo Momma" fight, ending with a victory, in spite of Dilio having his eyes scratched out. Though victory seemed to be in the Spartans' grasp, Paris Hilton betrays the Spartans and reveals the location of the goat path to Xerxes, having been promised her hump removed among her various demands. Using a CGI army, Xerxes meets the 12 remaining Spartans and the war is on.

Meanwhile, back in Sparta, Queen Margo sexually submits to Traitoro in order to persuade him to send more troops to assist Leonidas. He states that he will finally lose his virginity while using his cell phone to take pictures. However, he reveals publicly that she has not been chaste. The anger at this revelation provokes a symbiote suit to envelop her, mirroring the parasitic symbiote Spider-Man suit in Spider-Man 3. She fights with Traitoro, who, in line with the parody, becomes the Spider-Man 3 villain the Sandman. Margo wins the battle with a vacuum cleaner - and Traitoro's treachery is revealed, whereupon Sparta agrees to send more troops. However, the Spartan decision to send troops comes too late, as Xerxes and the Persian army fight the Spartans, who refuse to retreat. The battle initially starts well for the Spartans, but the tide turns as the Persians introduce their secret weapons: Ghost Rider, who is quickly defeated, and Rocky Balboa, who decapitates Sonio with one right hook but getting killed by a vengeful Captain, who plunges a Botox-laced syringe into his head. Captain then gets killed by a spear, thrown through his torso by Xerxes.

Captain's death enrages Leonidas, and the battle sequence switches to a Grand Theft Auto-esque format as he runs through the Persian Army and corners Xerxes. While running away, Xerxes finds the "Transformer Cube" and harnesses its power to combine with a convertible and turn into "Xerxestron", playing "Leave Britney Alone" videos to prove his "godly power". But Xerxestron ends up delivering on Leonidas's promise to "fall", as his power cord disconnects and he falls forward, crushing the surviving Spartans under his bulk. Thus the narrator concludes, "Leonidas was true to his word: a god-king did fall ... but unfortunately, right on them!" The blind Dilio, who left prior to the final battle, eventually returns to Sparta to tell of Leonidas' final moments. A year later, Dilio leads a force a hundred real Spartans and several thousand CGI-ones to defeat the Persians, but the blind warrior ends up going the wrong way and leads the Spartans to Malibu. They end up crashing into Lindsay Lohan as she once more leaves drug rehab, causing her to expose her bare groin and fly off screen.

The film ends with a musical number set to Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" performed on American Idol by all of the characters in the film. It also spoofs Britney Spears' VMA's comeback performance.

Cast

Four of the actors in Meet the Spartans also appeared in Epic Movie. Carmen Electra played Mystique, Jim Piddock played Magneto, Jareb Dauplaise played Nacho Libre, and Crista Flanagan played Hermione Granger.

Parodies

Critical reception

The film received incredibly negative reviews from critics. As of May 19, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 2% of all critics gave the film positive reviews and 0% positive reviews from top critics based on 41 reviews with an average rating of 1.8/10; citing consensus opinion on the title as "A tired, unfunny, offensive waste of time ... [which] scrapes the bottom of the cinematic barrel." [1] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 9 out of 100, based on 11 reviews — indicating "extreme dislike or disgust" and being the worst received film by the director on the site.[2]

One reviewer in Scotland's The Sunday Herald gave the film a score of zero, as did Ireland's Day and Night while an Australian newspaper review described it as being "as funny as a burning orphanage". In London, The Times reviewer Wendy Ide suggested that the producers of the film were not aiming for 'laughs' but "a simian grunt of recognition from an audience that must have been practically brain-dead to fork out £10 to see a film that can’t even master the concept of out-takes?". Currently, this film is the lowest-rated of the 2008 film season.

Most of the film's criticism consisted of not having many actual jokes and instead having an overreliance of pop culture references[3]. Several recurring gags were criticized for being overused, such as throwing various celebrities down the Pit of Death or the ambiguous homosexuality of the Spartans.

Upon news of Meet the Spartans box office success, The Soup staff created a sketch that parodies all previous "Parody Movies" by mentioning the film's weak comedy stunts. [1]

The film currently holds a rating of 2.4 out of 10 at the Internet Movie Database.

Box office performance

Despite the overwhelmingly negative critical reaction (the film has a 2% "Rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes[4]), the film opened #1 at the US box office, grossing $18,505,530 over its opening weekend,[5] narrowly edging out fellow newcomer Rambo, which was briefly parodied in the credits of this film. The film grossed $38,233,676 in the United States and Canada and grossed $45,787,889 in foreign countries adding to an international gross of $84,021,565. Meet the Spartans for the first week came in #1, second week was at #4, then the third week it was #9.[6]

DVD release

The film was released on DVD on June 3, 2008. It was released in a "Unrated Pit of Death" Edition and a PG-13/theatrical release of the film, as well as a Blu-Ray release. The theatrical cut will not include extras but will include widescreen and full screen versions on one dual disc. A "ruder & cruder" version was later released in the UK on August 18.

See also

Wikiquote has quotations related to Meet the Spartans.

References

  1. ^ "Meet the Spartans - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
  2. ^ "Meet the Spartans (2008): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
  3. ^ "Meet the Spartans - Bottom Line: "300" was funnier". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
  4. ^ "Meet the Spartans Movie Reviews". Retrieved 2008-04-07.
  5. ^ "US Movie Box Office Chart Weekend of January 25, 2008". The Numbers. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  6. ^ "Weekend Grosses of Meet the Spartans". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-10-10.

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