That famous line delivered by a deadpan Peter Graves in “Airplane!” comes to mind when reading Todd McCarthy’s entertaining review in Variety of “300,” Zack Snyder’s new film about the Battle of Thermopylae (via a Frank Miller graphic novel), which Todd describes as a “steroid-fueled fever dream.”

“Possibly nowhere outside of gay porn have so many broad shoulders, bulging biceps and ripped torsos been seen onscreen as in ‘300,’ a fact that will generate a certain bonus audience of its own; it’s not even certain Steve Reeves, the original ‘Hercules,’ would have made the grade here,” McCarthy writes of “300,” which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival three weeks ahead of its U.S. bow.

A somewhat more dispassionate second opinion is delivered by the Hollywood Reporter’s Kirk Honeycutt.