Your Highness
Rating: 3/10
Cast: Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Damian Lewis, Charles Dance
Director: David Gordon Green
From the team behind stoner comedy Pineapple Express comes medieval romp Your Highness.
McBride plays Thadeous, a slacker prince who lives in the shadow of his more talented brother Fabious, played by James Franco.
When Fabious returns from a quest with his new bride to be Belladonna (Deschanel) whom he rescued from a tower, it seems happily ever after is on the cards.
But when Belladonna's snatched by evil wizard Lazar, the duo have to team up on an epic quest to save the bride-to-be and rid their kingdom of the evil which blights it....
Forget any level of sophistication here, Your Highness is not about the smarts.
With puerile humour throughout (albeit some amusing one liners) it's not aiming very high.
Both Franco and Portman (rocking a terribly dodgy English
accent) go for high and mighty; Deschanel simply opts for
sulky.
A little more effort into the script and maybe some mockery of the
fantasy genre and this could have been better all round.
Instead it opts for crass, vulgar and a waste of those involved. The only saving grace is McBride who, with some deadpan delivery and some very dry moments just makes this (barely) tolerable.
Your Highness is more a case of swords and saucy language than anything else - a teen audience will be amused. Others will just roll their eyes.
