A tragedy occurred during the press screening of this spectacularly lame spoof of knickers-and-sandals extravaganza 300. Several critics, deafened by the silence greeting the antics on screen, failed to hear the approach of a giant tumbleweed blowing across the auditorium. The poor devils were crushed like grapes.

Star rating: *
Dirs: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
With: Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra

A tragedy occurred during the press screening of this spectacularly lame spoof of knickers-and-sandals extravaganza 300. Several critics, deafened by the silence greeting the antics on screen, failed to hear the approach of a giant tumbleweed blowing across the auditorium. The poor devils were crushed like grapes.

They were the lucky ones.

The rest of us had to endure in its entirety the latest offering from Friedberg and Seltzer of Date Movie and Epic Movie infamy. No tired idea is above being stretched to its limits as the pair take satirical aim with all the finesse of drunken chimps. The height of their genius was to have characters with names ending with an "O": Traitoro, Dilio and so on. Memo to F&S: pleaso stoppo nowo.