The Oakland Raiders is wild 😂 (via 🎥: Meet the Spartans) Meet the Spartans is a 2008 American parody comedy film directed and written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (the duo behind other spoof movies like Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Disaster Movie). It primarily spoofs the 2006 blockbuster 300 (Zack Snyder’s stylized epic about King Leonidas and the Battle of Thermopylae), while cramming in references to tons of other 2000s pop culture: movies like Happy Feet, Ghost Rider, Transformers,