A miserable attempt to spoof most of the recent vampire films, most notably Twilight … but without a hint of originality or wit or inventiveness or inkling of what a spoof should be.

If ever a film's title indicated the value of the product it is this one: it's not only a film that attempts - and utterly fails - to spoof disaster movies, but a disaster of a film.

Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer direct 'Meet The Spartans' (Cert 12, 82 mins, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,€25.52) an interminable spoof of the sword and sandals romp.

Care is needed if you want to gather together all the elements of the classic epics ever made and turn it into a spoof.

Spoofs of well-worn standards - horrors, westerns, musicals, spies - are difficult to pull off since they become, by their very nature, spoofs in themselves.