Unintentionally Hilarious

Rating: 2/10 (17 March 2007)

While this movie is xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, historically inaccurate, and generally offensive, it is entertaining by being unintentionally funny.
I could talk about the actual plot, but there isn't much of one worth talking about. Summed up: Manly white men fight the gay/Middle-Eastern menace for "freedom", while mocking those boy-loving Athenian intellectuals (the ones with democracy), and showing that the hideously deformed really should be thrown off a cliff.
There were entire scenes that had me in tears from laughter, most notably, when the villain (a nine foot tall drag queen, not actually played by RuPaul) orders the hyper-masculine hero to kneel, gesturing emphatically with his rhinestone studded crotch. The Hero responds by throwing a large phallic object at the villain's face. Comic gold.
The fact that the Spartans seem to have been costumed from a fetish shop adds to the visual appeal if one is into oiled down muscle men in black leather hot pants. Don't worry - they put something in for the straight guys too: the only female character has a long, lovingly shot, gratuitous sex scene near the beginning of the film. And if you're into the armless, horribly scarred or disfigured women, there's some gratuitous nudity of them for you, too. Something for the whole family, really.
If one feels the need to see this movie, I would recommend watching it for the sheer joy of seeing some homophobic, women hating morons overcompensate their way into making a fetish film.