NYT: A.O. Scott rips 300

300 - Movies - Review - New York Times: "“300” is about as violent as “Apocalypto” and twice as stupid. Adapted from a graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, it offers up a bombastic spectacle of honor and betrayal, rendered in images that might have been airbrushed onto a customized van sometime in the late 1970s. The basic story is a good deal older."

I like the rating note at the end: "“300” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Much butchery, some lechery."