Your Highness - My first movie review since my Jr. High School paper - The Osprey

My first movie Review - Your Highness: Universal Studios

Ok.  Here goes.  I’ll tell it like it is…

I actually went to preview another movie but my pass had the wrong time on it so I went to a preview of Your Highness instead.

I must say going into to this movie I was not expecting much.   In addition to the fact that Howard Stern liked it (that’s a marital dispute for another entry) and from what I saw in the commercials it looked like it was going to be a stupid not funny comedy and even though I adore Natalie Portman would she be enough to make this movie bearable.  Also before this my only experience with James Franco was a watching painful train wreck of him trying to host the Academy Awards with Anne Hathaway.

With that being said I was pleasantly surprised.  James Franco was actually amusing (and very nice to look at through out this entire movie).  Danny McBride was also funny and even though most of the jokes were sexual and full of foul language – not normally my kind of humor - they were all mostly quite funny.  Natalie Portman did not enter the movie until quite some time, but as usual she is always great to watch.  The chemistry between Portman and McBride worked very well together

The plot is simple.  An evil villain (Justin Theroux) kidnaps the virgin Princess Isabel (Zooey Deschanel) and Prince Fabious (James Franco) and his stoner brother Prince Thadeous (McBride) must rescue her.  They must find a sword on their quest because they need this to be able to defeat the evil villain.  Along the way they meet a few interesting characters, run into a few surprises and of course the opportunity for more jokes.  It moved along pretty steady though and kept my interest.

Overall all I’m not really sure why I enjoyed this movie but I did.  I was full vulgar language and jokes are not something that I normally watch but in the end I did laugh at most the jokes.  I would not take any children to it, even older children because it may be a bit uncomfortable but it is the type of film to see with a group of friends out for a fun evening.

Rating: R (for strong crude and sexual content, language and nudity)
Main Cast: Danny McBride, James Franco, Zooey Deschanel and Natalie Portman
Director: David Gordon Green
Running time: 1 hour, 42 minute