Your Highness (2011)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 167
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 123
Big budgets and costumes in service of scatalogical jokes may seem funny on paper, but in execution this is a highly monotonous romp that registers only occasional laughs.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 29
Big budgets and costumes in service of scatalogical jokes may seem funny on paper, but in execution this is a highly monotonous romp that registers only occasional laughs.
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Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights who rescue fair damsels, slay dragons and conquer evil. But behind many a hero is a good-for-nothing younger brother trying just to stay out of the way of those dragons, evil and trouble in general. Danny McBride and James Franco team up for an epic comedy adventure set in a fantastical world--Your Highness. As two princes on a daring mission to save their land, they must rescue the heir apparent's
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Cast
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Danny McBride
Thadeous -
James Franco
Fabious -
Rasmus Hardiker
Courtney -
Natalie Portman
Isabel -
Toby Jones
Julie -
Justin Theroux
Leezar -
Zooey Deschanel
Belladonna -
Charles Dance
King Tallious -
Damian Lewis
Boremont -
Simon Farnaby
Manious the Bold -
Deobia Oparei
Thundarian -
B.J. Hogg
Royal Advisor -
Matyelok Gibbs
Mother -
Angela Pleasence
Mother -
Anna Barry
Mother -
Amber Anderson
Maiden -
Stuart Loveridge
Skinny Prisoner -
John Fricker
Marteetee -
Rupert Davis
Second Knight -
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Warlock -
Mario Andres Torres
Great Wize Wizard -
Noah Huntley
Head Knight -
Ben Wright
Dastardly -
Susie Kelly
Hooded Witch -
Roma Tomelty
Hooded Witch -
Brigid Eric Bates
Hooded Witch -
Eilish Doran
Hooded Witch -
Kiran Shah
Tiniest One -
Simon Cohen
The Barbarian -
Graham Hughes
Dwarf King -
Zhaidarbek Junguzhinov
Brother Mein -
Nurlan Altayev
Brother Mein -
David Garrick
Daronius the Swift -
Dorian Dixon
Troll -
Darren Thompson
Troll -
David Thompson
Troll -
Brian Steele
Minotaur Performer -
Ben Willbond
Ranger -
Phil Holden
Dwarf Executioner -
Chris Burke
Dwarf Man -
Sinead Burke
Dwarf Woman -
Tobias Winter
Timotay Dungeon Master -
Paige Tyler
Pale-Skinned Beauty -
Rhian Sugden
Forest Woman -
Amii Grove
Forest Woman -
Madison Welch
Forest Woman -
Iga Wyrwal
Regina -
Charles Shaughnessy
Narrator, Soul of the M...
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All Critics (168) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (124) | DVD (4)
Dudes, we get it.
Top CriticWith McBride and Franco trying on knowingly bad Brit accents and the entire cast clearly having a whale of a time, the impression is of the world's daftest, priciest, least self-serious end-of-the-pier panto.
Sword and sorcery movies often resemble parodies of themselves even when they are intended to be taken seriously. And then there are genre spoofs like Your Highness that are meant to be funny and leave you stone-faced.
This film looks like it was a lot more fun to make than it is to watch.
None of this is very funny, and most of it is pretty ugly - the last half-hour or so is a paroxysm of bad special effects, amputated limbs and a severed sexual organ.
Basically, the script, from the title on down, feels like something sketched out on rolling papers.
Your Highness hits more than it misses but the effort is substantially lacking, which particularly unexpected considering the gifted people involved.
Quite a comedown and a buzz kill, after "Pineapple Express."
Director David Gordon Green and writers Danny McBride and Ben Best have put together a completely unfunny film filled to the brim with non-stop sexual references and other bits of lowbrow humor.
It's time for Green to make one of the moody, downbeat, haunting indie dramas with which he initially made a name for himself.
If Green wanted to make an awesome fantasy film, he should have, and if he wanted to make a great stoner comedy, well, he already did once.
A surprisingly boring throwback to '80s fantasy, with a disgusting amount of potty humor, violence and foul language tossed in to generate the shallowest of laughs.
There are glimmers of inspired comedy, but rather than explore the genre's stereotypes, the movie constantly falls back on smut.
A spirited and (mostly) funny genre spoof from the same team responsible for Pineapple Express.
Who could have possibly thought any of this is funny?
Just don't expect too much from it and remember to switch off your brain.
McBride, who also created the indelible character of Kenny Powers on HBO's "Eastbound and Down," has most of the good lines and he makes the most of them
In theory, I suppose it would be funny-and incongruous-if in the middle of a serious costume drama a noble action hero uttered a four-letter word. Hearing Danny McBride do just that, repeatedly, in Your Highness not only isn't funny but grows wearisome...
In case you miss the joke, McBride helpfully arcs an eyebrow and cocks his head to signal the punchline. And with all the subtlety of Thor, he hammers most of his crude one-liners in the direction of Portman as the vengeful warrior chick Isabel.
Good fun.
...boasts a pervasively absurd atmosphere that's heightened on an all-too-frequent basis by the almost uniformly over-the-top performances.
I found myself laughing a lot at this rotten movie.
Audience Reviews for Your Highness
Super Reviewer
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- Thadeous: He wants us to jerk him off!
- Great Wize Wizard: Just touch the tip and twist it.
- Thadeous: We are not going to do that.
- Fabious: If it's for the quest, we will do what needs to be done.
- Thadeous: Yuck!
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- Leezar: The fuckening has begun!
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- Thadeous: My path has been unstable, but my conviction is born to damn the fuckers who doubted me. To lessen the assholes who tested me. To right what is wrong, to restore faith that has long been lost, and to rise to great heights even beyond my own legend as a Great Cocksmith, Master Pintsman, and stunningly handsome Prince of Light in these dark Dark Ages!
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- Isabel: It is my legacy to stop anyone who wants to fuck to make dragons.
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- Isabel: That feeling is all too familiar. It's been burning in my beaver since the day I lost my brothers.
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- Thadeous: [while moving Stephen off the bed] Stephen, I'm going to put you in the corner *now* while I strum my filthies.
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It plays for the base humor and is vulgar and you will either howl out loud laugh or eye roll till the sheep come in.
I had fun it was 3 1/2 out of 5 for me. Again it was a free ticket with a recent blu ray purchase but hey one cant complain. Also has Zooey Deschanel in it and the factor of beautiful women was quite nice.
James Franco looked to be having WAY too much fun being ridiculous in this one. Good time though. Keep the kids away lol