Your Highness
Screen Rant ’s Vic Holtreman reviewsYour Highness
nanus . The picture show open up with midget . An entirevillageof midgets .
Right there , I thought"aw man - this is extend to be a rough hour and a half . “But then the scene actually finish with an circumstantially funny lick wrinkle and cut like a shot to some interesting credits that gave me at least a little fleck of Bob Hope .
Your Highnessis a take off on medieval / fantasy films from the 1980s - with a modern , hard roentgen - rated comedy twist . The movie stars and was co - written byDanny McBride , who plays Thadeous , the young , slacker son of the Billie Jean King . The first - born ( Fabious ) is play by James Franco . Thadeous is of course of action jealous of his heroic and someday - to - be - king old brother , while Fabious loves his younger buddy dearly and is unreasoning to his bitterness .
Fabious has meet a fair young maid on his most late quest - her name is ( ready ? ) Belladonna ( make for by the ever - ethereal Zooey Deschanel ) and has become taken with of her enough to propose union . Ah , but the malign sorcerer named Leezar ( Justin Theroux ) who hold her locked in a tower has his own design for her and takes her back - setting the basis for the drive story arc : A quest to re - deliver the middling maiden .
The king insist that Thadeous ( and therefore his close page ) attend Fabious in this quest for finally make a gentleman’s gentleman out of him . Along the way they play and team up up with warrior - babe Isabel ( Natalie Portman ) who has her own quest to nail .
Your Highnesswas directed by David Gordon Green , who also directed Pineapple Express , whichalsostarred James Franco . One surprise with the pic is the orbit of the flick and the ocular effects - it comes across as much more " big budget " than I expected . The primary caper of course , come from juxtaposing a medieval setting with lapidator humor , f - bombs and " dick jokes . " Many of the character ( including the one playact by Natalie Portman ) roleplay their roles suddenly serious , while McBride seems transported there from present day , and his Sir Frederick Handley Page ( Rasmus Hardiker ) sucker for the camera . Franco straddles the line between serious approach and comedy by play it so open , good - hearted and naive that it becomes its own brand of funny .
As to the profanity , yeah there ’s a lot of it . But as a friend of mine ( @misterpatches ) pointed out on Twitter,"‘F * * * ' is not a joke . A well - time one is a different issue . “Now I do n’t know if he said it in reference to this picture show , but they ’re wise words regardless . There are some pic ( * coughPaulcough * ) where the use of it seems surplus and does n’t append anything to the film , but here … dare I use the parole " elusive " in a movie where a penis chassis ( too ) prominently in the third act ? It works .
Danny McBride does n’t beat the audience over the head with his discourtesy - it just seems to be a part of him . You ca n’t help but like James Franco in this role , and his seeming delectation come across on the screen door . Natalie Portman is fun to check ( for reasons other than the swim tantrum ) - she fiddle it pretty straight - up badass warrior chick and it ’s neat seeing her do that . Then there ’s Justin Theroux as the wizard - well played - and one scene where he tries to convert Zooey that her prince is not all he ’s cracked up to be tickled my funny bone .
Is this a penetrative , witty film ? Not even remotely . But are there plenty of tantrum that will make you squirm / laugh if you ’re OK with gas constant - rated comedies ? Yup . Some of it was more than a number much ( for me anyway ) - like the previously advert penis that just would not go by . There ’s a scene with a " wise wizard " early on that will either offend the heck out of you or you ’ll find funny and will be a signal you ’re in the correct theater .
Still on the fencing ? Here ’s a laggard forYour Highness(NSFW ):
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Your Highness is a phantasy comedy moving-picture show that be slacker prince extraordinaire Thadeous , who lives in everlasting pampering while his brother , Prince Fabious , spew an ever - growing shadow over him . However , when an evil sorcerer kidnaps Fabious ' fiancee , Thadeous is give the opportunity to pay off himself by joining the pursuit to salve his chum ’s plight . Joined by Thadeous ' best friend and servant , Courtney , the three embark on a quest that will inevitably go awry unless Thadeous can keep his slacker nature in chit .
