Saturday, 30 April 2011

My Film: 'Your Highness' 14-5-11

Your Highness. An absolutely brilliant parody of the typical historical 'epics'. From the director of the very brilliant Pineapple Express, the stoner comedy, comes Your Highness. The mythological piss take.

Relentless in his silliness, defiant in his determination never to let the sword of bad taste sleep in his hand, Danny McBride leads the cast in an immature broad comedy calculated to outrage those nose-wrinklers of a peevish and fastidious disposition. Basically ye olde medievale prequele to the stoner comedy Pineapple Express, featuring American actors doing a modified dudespeak in outrageous cod-Brit accents. Awful much? McBride plays Prince Thadeous, a ne'er-do-well minor royal who must step up and be a man when he joins a quest led by his noble elder brother Prince Fabeous, played by Oscar nominated James Franco and warrior queen Isabel, another Oscar nominee, Natalie Portman. Well, this cheerful film has no ambitions other than to deliver laughs, and that it does however crude they are.

My Star Rating:
6/10 *

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