25 May 2012

worst movie ever

this is the dumbest movie i have ever seen i only watched 40 mins of it and i was wishing i was high so i could just forget what i seen. do not bother getting this movie save your money for something more important like fertilizer because this movie stinks just as much.

25 May 2012

Your Highness

This review is from: Your Highness (DVD) Silly me hoped for another The Princess Bride (20th Anniversary Edition) or Stardust [Blu-ray], but what I got was far from the normal fantasy movie. It tries hard to be funny and vulgar and mostly ends up vulgar. The trailers shows the best scenes of the movie and hides it's true overall nature or I would not have bought it without renting it first. Fans of the movie Pineapple Express (Single-Disc Unrated Edition) may enjoy it or those that like strictly crude and vulgar movies without much of a funny script. This is certainly not a family movie. My guess is it won't do particularly well in a broad audience because it caters to a select few young stoners. The language is almost non-stop R or worse. It could have been so much more if the script wasn't so full of foul mouthed obscenities it treads far from any believability as a medieval period piece or even a far out fantasy. I recommend you rent it if you have any interest in it whatsoever. I'm donating my copy as I have no desire to see it again. By the way hanging someones genitals around the neck wasn't funny unless you take lots of drugs. I don't need to in order to know true comedy, so I wasn't amused. If you like this movie see Talladega Nights - The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Unrated Widescreen Edition) and CA Luster

24 May 2012

Your Highness

This is similar to Krod Mandoon (which was cancelled) in that it pokes fun at all those medieval hero movies. This one also incorporates aspects of Greek mythology. There are two princes, Fabious and Thadeous. Fabious (James Franco) is patterned after Perseus. He has rescued his princess, Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel) from the ogre and is to be wed. During the wedding, the evil magician (Justin Theroux) shows up and abducts the bride. The king orders the portly, foul-mouthed, vulgar, inept Thadeous to join his brother on the perilous quest to rescue the would-be princess from the evil magician and bad script. Natalie Portman, who failed to read said vulgar script prior to accepting the role, joins the quest with her push-up padded bra and thong bikini. Their goal is to stop the wedding of the evil wizard and Belladonna during the eclipse of the conjunction of the 2 moons which will lead to the birth of a dragon, who will be under the control of the chosen one. Got all that?The humor is crude and sexual. I didn't mind it up to the point they had to masturbate the wise wizard (a muppet take-off of Yoda). At this point I realized they had squandered an opportunity by constantly substituting crude sexual humor for good satire. This is without a doubt Natalie Portman's worst film.Nudity, f-bombs, mf-bomb, crude sexual humor, crude gay humor, sophomoric humor, multiple penis jokes.

toast565

24 May 2012

Danny McBride is my new least favourite actor

I watched and loved Pineapple Express, and had high hopes for this, butwhen I finally got round to seeing it I sat transfixed with horror atthe sheer unfunniness of almost the entire film. Danny McBride was the chief culprit I think, being both the principleprotagonist and the writer. I will blame firstly the script for beingfrankly awful and containing very little that made me so much aschuckle. Secondly I also blame the director. He seems to have gone fora version of medieval/fantasy world where each line is delivered veryartificially. It is possible that he was going for some kind ofdramatic, Shakespearean effect, but the effect just falls flat. The story was extremely clichéd and was just them trailing from placeto place on a quest that made very little sense. Of course, the storyisn't the most important part of films like this, but it was justanother nail in the coffin. Seriously, the fact that some people seem to think this is truly,laugh-out-loud funny really worries me. James Franco I have a lot ofrespect for, but he was average to bad in this. Natalie Portman as wellI think is a great actress, but even she could not bring life into thisdisaster. The only answer is that you must watch this film when you are so stonedthat even the this miserable attempt at a comedy will seem like thevery pinnacle of humour

xJags

23 May 2012

Could have been so much better!

Constantly overshadowed by the chivalrous actions of his brother PrinceFabious (James Franco), disgruntled scoundrel Thadeous (Danny McBride)vents his frustrations by blundering simple assignments, indulging intoo many spirits, and berating his aide Courtney (Rasmus Hardiker). Butwhen Fabious' new bride Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel) is kidnapped bythe evil sorcerer Leezar (Justin Theroux), Thadeous is forced to tagalong on his very first quest. Encountering wise wizards, ruthlessjungle savages, and the fiercely driven warrior girl Isabel (NataliePortman), Thadeous must learn to play the role of a valiant knight -and when Fabious is captured by Leezar, the bumbling prince might justbecome a hero.I must start off by saying it was the cast that drew me to this movie.Natalie Portman and James Franco both fresh off the Oscars, DannyMcBride who is hilarious as well as Zooey Deschanel and Justin Theroux.However if there was ever a movie that could pair these actors with ahorrid script - it is this movie!First off, the jokes are not funny! They are rather disturbing and rudemaking them inappropriate. Most of the jokes in the movie are like thiswhich makes it not funny.The plot was alright, Thadeous falling in love with Belladonna and himhaving to rescue her however...why was she kidnapped? She is kidnappedbecause Leezar needs a virgin to have a dragon child with....Come on!That's a bit ridiculous!I wish I could say I loved this movie but I didn't. Despite the goodcast and good acting that is pretty much all the movie had going forit. Script was horrid,jokes were not funny and plot was a bit stupid.4/10

22 May 2012

Not as bad as Highlander II

To be fair, I only got about 30 minutes in but in those 30 minutes there was enough bad acting, terrible humor (a pedophile wizard whose a good guy? incest jokes between two brothers, and ill placed cursing. I mean even the actors delivered the curses with an "excuse me, I say F*** here? Really?". While this isn't as bad as Highlander II it's far too close for any movie to be. Even if you are a lover of bad cinema (and I grew up with Troma) this movie will make you annoyed.

tavm

22 May 2012

Your Highness isnt funny enough as an adult spoof of the fairy tale aspect of the Middle Ages though it still has some moments

Just watched this medieval comedy with my mom. I knew coming in itwould be a bit raunchy and I laughed at many of those scenes but thatalone doesn't make this a very funny movie especially since many of theaction scenes seemed to have been done with some seriousness ofpurpose. Perhaps it was because of what I said in that last statementthat I didn't cringe too much when my mom were watching those samescenes since I didn't think she would pay too much attention to themespecially since she was also preparing some meals for the next day aswell. Seeing James Franco, Danny McBride, Natalie Portman, and ZooeyDeschanel together in this provided some entertaining moments butoverall, this wasn't funny enough to me to fully recommended. Still,Your Highness is worth a look for anyone in the mood for a ribald spoofof the Middle Ages as turned to the attitudes of the 21st century...

thomasjwilliams

22 May 2012

Probably not as bad as youve heard but ...

A not-quite disastrously bad comedy flick, Your Highness isn't a goodmovie; but it has some inspired casting and actual bits of comedicglory (such as the line - "I will never be your friend because I hatemechanical inventions").It's a movie full of crude and vulgar jokes/humor so if you'd rathersip a cup of tea than drink a round of pints ... this movie won't befor you. The movie works (on a base-level) simply because it aims forlow-ball. Even though the film is called Your Highness it doesn't reachfor any high, lofty heights.James Franco (Milk, 127 Hours, Spiderman) and Danny McBride (TropicThunder, Hot Rod, The Pineapple Express) play brother princes. The dumbbo-hunk Fabious (Franco) is the golden-child who is about to marryBelladonna (Zooey Deschanel -- Elf, (500) Days of Summer, Failure toLaunch), a lovely young maiden who had been kept in a tower all of herdays (!) until Fabious rescued her. Before the wedding can take place,the evil, ugly wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux - Charlie's Angels,Mulholland Drive) re-abducts the girl ... which sets the brothers andtheir band of men on a quest to save the maiden. Damian Lewis (Band ofBrothers) plays an iron-fisted (literally which makes for some uneasychuckles) co-hort of Fabious and they meet up with the tough Isabel(Natalie Portman - Black Swan, Closer, Heat) who comes along to assistwith their quest.Fabious has been on countless quests over his life; but this is thefirst for McBride's Thadeous (the film's main character) and he ismost-definitely a fish-out-of-water. The film is packed with base andbawdy jokes/gags and crude is the name-of-the-game. This is nothigh-brow at all.That Your Highness is a cheesy film -- there is no question. If onelikes it or not depends upon how much one likes cheese ... and while Ido appreciate a good cheese plate this should have been a lot better asthere are LITERALLY too many gags throughout the film to greatlyappreciate it.

FanPerspective

20 May 2012

Your Highness has trouble finding its footing but eventually finds it way

Despite what has been said, this film has very little relation toPineapple Express other than the fact that it is from the same directorand features a few of the same actors. There is also the misconceptionthat it is a "stoner comedy" which is not the case. There may be two orthree instances where a "magical herb" is smoked, but that is all. It'snot much of a comedy at all, really. There are a few moments where youlaugh, but the film is actually an epic. It centers around the life ofthe lazy and useless Prince Thadeous (Danny McBride) who admires his"perfect" older brother, Fabious (James Franco), but is also jealous ofeverything that he has accomplished. But when the evil wizard Leezar(Justin Theroux) kidnaps Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel), Fabious'bride-to-be, the two brothers must unite on a quest to rescue her;accompanied by Thadeous' servant, Courtney (Rasmus Hardiker). On theirjourney, they face much peril: everything from deception to afive-headed beast to a minotaur and even a very strong-willed,ass-kicking heroine.. Isabel (Natalie Portman). Truly, it is theultimate geek movie. It was shot on the massive scale of a Lord of theRings film, covering all the basics of any medieval-styled story. Itdefinitely took it a little while to find its footing, but it did shapeup. The only real problems with it are the writing, which in areascould be a little rough, and Danny McBride, who seemed to be trying toohard to get the laugh, presenting himself as annoying and unfunny. Therest of the cast, however, was brilliant. It's always fun to see actorssuch as Franco and Portman step down from their Oscar roles and justhave fun. Zooey Deschanel has always been a great actress, who doeshave a smaller part in this film as she typically does, but she isalways one that you don't forget. Rasmus Hardiker is a little-knownactor from the UK who I think will get more recognition after thisfilm; he played the role of a servant but really did a great job withhis performance and has terrific comedic timing and ability. Thespecial effects were done very well and it was really a fun timeexperiencing it on the big screen; it just had this booming epicness toit that really sucked you into the action.

sir_couchpotato

20 May 2012

Supremely Horrible

There is no redeeming value in this movie. If you watched the trailer,you've seen every decently entertaining moment of the movie.The entire movie drags from the poor acting (minus Natalie Portman, theonly thing worthwhile), bad accents and dialog that had to be writtenby a 12 year old. I'll admit that I like a good dirty joke but what wehave here is random lines thrown together attempting some sort of shockvalue. They get the shock but its more of an, "I can't believe thismovie got funding" kind of shock.By the end of this movie I was amazed at how far James Franco hadfallen and also wondered why Natalie Portman would even attach herselfto such a giant pile of crap. Do yourself a favor and pass on this one.

Christian_Dimartino

20 May 2012

Ah, the choices Natalie Portman makes.

When I heard about the stoner comedy Your Highness a year ago, Ithought it sounded promising. I realize that I am behind everybodyelse(or, hopefully, not many people) but I just watched it a few nightsago. And to be honest, I don't know where to even begin.Set in the meddle ages, the film revolves around a dumb prince(DannyMcbride) who is asked by his popular brother(James Franco) to accompanyhim on a quest to save his fiancé(Zooey Deschanel) and kill theczar(Justin Theroux) that kidnapped her. Along the way, they encountera woman(Natalie Portman) who is also set out for revenge on the sameguy.The film is from director David Gordon Green, who's career has gone inan odd direction(his first film was the indie drama Snow Angels).Following Snow angels, he directed Pineapple express, which was afreshly funny action comedy. And now he's concocted this.I heard that Your highness was terrible, but I really had a hard timebelieving it. It sounded promising. But I think that the real horror isexperiencing the film for yourself, to see that letdown. Your highnessis a complete disaster.I expected to laugh a little bit, but I don't think I ever laughed, atall. The jokes fall flat, and they are repetitive and obvious. WhenMcbride says to Portman,"Do you feel a prick on your back?", I rolledmy eyes, and you will too.The whole film is a bloodbath. Its not like that was even funny.Portman's character is really quite pointless, and the relationshipbetween her and McBride is stupid. After she did Black swan(her bestperformance), did she feel that she had to jump on board to every movieshe could? I love her, she's hot, and a great actress, but she needs tostop taking swings at piles of crap(not that Thor, No strings attached,and The Other woman were crap, they just weren't Black swan; Thor wasgood though).Anyways, back to topic. The air flies out of the balloon way too fast.What should've been stoner-fied fun just turns out to be a bad trip youdon't want to take. If I was to find one pro, it would be JustinTheroux. Theroux, who wrote Tropic thunder, is slowly making a name forhimself, and he should. But trust me, Your highness was the wrongchoice.C-

Art Jaquez

19 May 2012

Juvenile Dud

This epic misfire is summed up in four words: Great cast, lousy writers. Don't get me wrong,a Lord of the Rings takeoff for fourth grade drop outs might have a niche, but this does not even live up to that low standard.

chrismailat

18 May 2012

Bad tale with stupid jokes and inappropriate sex scenes

When I first heard about this movie I really looked forward to see it.I am a big fan of fantasy/adventure movies. And with great names asNatalie Portman and James Franco my curiosity about seeing the moviegrew. But after seeing it I got disappointed big time! The jokes areterrible and the sex scenes where totally inappropriate. Like usingpaedophile sex jokes ?? What's up with that! I just can't believe thatthese famous actors signed up for this movie. What where they thinkingwhen they where reading the script??!! I really begin to hate this kindof behaviors in a movie. There is no respect for a decent storylineanymore..

Everycloudhasa

18 May 2012

I did laugh out loud quite a few times!

I liked this film. It is not going to win any Oscars, and is prettyrude at times, but anyone who is a fan of Eastbound and Down will likethis. It is cheesy at times, knowingly so, but does entertain all theway through. It is not trying to be ground breaking and original, it isa comedy and does what is says on the tin. Maybe do not watch thetrailer though as the best bits are in there! Do not go to see it ifyou are easily offended, it is full of bad language, crude sexreferences and is quite in your face. I was heartily amused, and wouldrecommend this for a light hearted, entertaining romp. The cast isstrong. Too often, critics pan films which Jo public actually reallyenjoy, so judge for yourself based on what actual people say, notaccording to reviewers, who often are quite wrong about what peopleenjoy watching.

angelusemre

16 May 2012

stoners comedy at its best!

from the guys who brought you pineapple express, here comes an anotherawesome movie! the cast is just amazing. James Franco, Danny McBrideNatalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel are giving very good performances.some people thinks that this movie is stupid, but actually it's funnybecause of that! if you don't get it, don't watch it!it's a great movie for stoner's and of course it's great also who likesthis kind of comedy. if you like pineapple express, superbad, knockedup and the movies like that, i'm sure you're going to love this!i was looking forward for a sequel but considering it's bombed at box-office there won't be any. what a shame.

Katie Sirles

16 May 2012

Your Highness - High-larious

If I weren't the open-minded, light-hearted individual that I am, YourHighness would have left me offended, unamused, and bored. Thankfully,I find vulgarity hilarious. This movie was jam-packed with it, too.Foul language, blood and guts, and naked women. Lots of them. If thisdoesn't sound like your idea of a good time then you should probablystop reading here because it is only going to get worse.James Franco plays Fabious, brother of Thadeous played by DannyMcBride. Thadeous is the Goofus to Fabious's Gallant. Charles Danceplays their father King Tallious. Tallious wants his slacker sonThadeous to get on the ball and start setting out on quests like hisbrother. However, Thadeous is perfectly happy to lounge around and hangout with his servant Courtney (Rasmus Hardiker). Upon arriving homefrom yet another quest, Fabious tells his father of his great news. Hehas not only come home victorious once again, but this time he has withhim his bride-to-be Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel). He rescued her fromthe tower in which the evil Leezar was keeping her and now they are towed. But what of his best man? His brother of course. Only, his brotherwants nothing to do with the job and bails.There is something about the way Danny McBride delivers expletives thatmakes him the comedic relief in any film. Up in the Air has got to bethe only film in which I've seen him where he doesn't drop a variety offour-letter words on us. Yet, he was still very funny! Some actors justhave that. His fondness for the female anatomy is unparalleled. He'sreally something.At the wedding of Fabious and Belladonna, Leezar (Justin Theroux)crashes the event and claims his prisoner once again. This brings aboutthe first quest that Thadeous will set out on. The laugh out loudmoments are plentiful if you're willing to overlook the obvious andabundant vulgarity.Later in the movie we meet Isabel played by Natalie Portman. I amthoroughly convinced that you could put her in a burlap sack, removeevery drop of makeup from her face, and she would still be phenomenallygorgeous. She is what I like to call unfairly pretty. It's as thoughshe took the pretty from 100 girls. There are one hundred homely girlsout there because Natalie Portman took all of their beauty and kept itfor herself. This is me trying to rationalize. Seriously though, she isquite fetching indeed and a fantastic talent. She holds her ownon-screen with the guys and exhibits tremendous comedic timing.This movie was directed by David Gordon Green. The same man whodirected the boring and mostly pointless Pineapple Express. To quoteDumb and Dumber, "Just when I thought you couldn't possibly be anydumber, you go and do something like this… and totally redeemyourself!"- Ms. Silver Screen founder of mssilverscreen.com

Russ

15 May 2012

What a waste

A waste of a talented cast and director. Having enjoyed PineappleExpress, I had hopes for this film. But wow, it took about 10 minutesfor those hopes and expectations to plummet. Every joke was predictableand obvious, a high schooler probably could have done this better. Andto make it worse, it went on far too long. There's probably about 20minutes that could have been cut from this and it would have been amerciful bit of slicing had it happened. There might have been a goodmovie somewhere within the general idea, maybe that should have beenthe characters quest, finding a worthwhile script. Because they didn'thave one to work with here. Though they can thank one of their own forthat.

Sergio Campanale

15 May 2012

A homage to 80s fantasy that only half works

It's amazing how as we children of the late 70s and early 80s reachmiddle age how much those films we loved so much at the time stillremain strong and powerful memories and influences on us decades later.It's certainly the case with Green and McBride in this homage to the"golden age" of fantasy cinema that happened post-Star Wars and whichsaw such classics as "Krull" "Legend" "Willow" "Clash of the Titans""Hawk the Slayer" "Conan the Barbarian/The Destroyer" "Red Sonya" "TheDark Crystal" "The Princess Bride" and many others. With the notableinsertion of "Krull" into that love letter to 80s actioners "PINEAPPLEEXPRESS" it was clear Green and co had love for this genre, and it wastempting to imagine what they might bring to it, but with a brake onexpectations remembering the improvised way these movies are made. Infact so it turns out. Much of the comedy element is actual rather weakand struggles for air like a landed fish. A lot of money and effort ismade on creating lovely 80s things like the Jim Henson style wizardcreature or the animatronic Minatour, but the payoffs comedy wise areoften weak. Even the "Bubo" mechanical pigeon never really comes toanything except that "Ha! Ha! There's that silly R2-D2 bird from"Clash".." initial laugh. As others have said though, the actionsequences were better planned and executed hence a spike in qualitywhenever they appear, plus of course Green, McBridge and co indulgingtheir boyhood dreams of re-staging those oh-so-cool fantasy moments forreal. The arena fight with the hand monster (a decent idea and anoriginal one too) and the final heavily "willow" inspired battle(complete with multiple inter cut fights were we have fun seeing whichheroes and which villains will be paired off in the end level tagfight, just like in the originals) There scenes are not onlyprofessionally staged but also played largely straight and all thebetter for it. As for the cast, McBride is OK, Franco again playscomedy which is were his real forte lies (he has almost cancelled thetight assed embarrassment of Harry Osbourne and "Flyboys"/"Tristran andIsolde") Theroux was almost unrecognisable but having fun as the bigbad, Zooey Deschanel played an irritating idiot which is an ideal rolefor her, while Portman can still call on Amidala for a tough actiongirl part when necessary.It really is a film that began life as a "Hey! Wouldn't it be cool tomix all our favourite 80s fantasy movies and play them out like acomedy" idea and didn't really get very far beyond that. Still it isstill fun and silly, like the originals, and makes for a good nightout.

joestout-137-973041

14 May 2012

hilarious

If you are looking for a lot of slapstick nonsense it isn't the moviefor you. But I laughed through the whole thing. Watch it and see foryourself. You do not need to be high to laugh at this one. You do haveto pay attention to the wit or you'll miss the laughs. I thought thecast was excellent. I'm not sure what most people were expecting. It isa comedy. If you have a stick up your..... then watch it another day.Comedy is not the same as Thriller, etc so don't expect to be dazzledwith clever twists. It has a very basic story plot; one that has beentold thousands of times before. Though similar to other story lines, Ifelt the humor was fresh and subtle enough to have a good time. Againgive this one a real shot before writing it off.

FrancoFan13

14 May 2012

Better than anticipated!

I have to admit, walking into the theatre to see "Your Highness," I wasa bit anxious. I had read tons of reviews surrounding this film and Iwas curious. The film was WAY better than expected. The dialogue was perfect. Sure,there were some curse words but they never came at a time that itwasn't normal for any person to use them. It was witty, humorous andcontained lots of sexual innuendos.In terms of acting, Natalie Portman completely dragged the film. Forbeing someone who just won an Oscar, this was terrible. Luckily shewasn't in the film as much. James Franco was sweet, sensitive and verynoble, although his English accent was dry and boring, as was DannyMcBride's.One thing that really stood out was the amazing graphics. Most of thefilm was shot in Ireland which was an added plus, due the fact thatIreland has beautiful countrysides. I really felt as if I was in thiskingdom, journeying the quest with Thadius and Fabius.Overall, the movie was fantastic. If you love sexual innuendos doneright, witty humor and great battle scenes, then this movie is for you.Definitely a movie that will stay funny after you watch it a few times.