Kevin Sorbo Beats Stallone

Former Hercules and Andromeda star Kevin Sorbo has the number one film in the country today. Too bad that film is the lowest of the lowbrow epic movie parody Meet the Spartans. Here's what the critics are sayin' about Sorbo's latest, which beat Stallones' new Rambo for the weekend box-office crown.

• " Lazy, lame and painfully unfunny." - Variety
  
  
• "Meet The Spartans gamely alternates between unfunny gay jokes and violent pratfalls ..." The Onion AV Club
  
  
• "Meet the Spartans is not a movie. All involved should feel slightly ashamed." Cinematical
  
  
• "... sickening, derivative, shallow, condescending, utterly worthless ..." - The MovieBoy.com
  

Yikes. Were the reviews for last year's Epic Movie this bad? At least Spartans might raise Sorbo's Tomatometer from 0% to 4% (apparently the critics don't like straight to video Walking Tall sequels either). I think Sorbo needs to make a grand return to sci-fi. It's the only genre in which he gets any quality projects and critical love. Maybe there's room for him in the Watchmen movie. Or better yet, why not an Andromeda miniseries on Sci Fi Channel? They can give it the Battlestar treatment and make it a darker, bloodier version of the original. Here's to dreaming ...