Review Your Highness | poetslandscape

MPAA (R) CNS/USCCB (O) Roger Ebert (1 huge name) Fr. Dennis (2 ? Stars)

IMDb list -

http://www.Imdb.Com/call/tt1240982/

CNS/USCCB evaluate -

http://www.Usccb.Org/films/y/yourhighness2011.Shtml

Roger Ebert?S evaluation

http://rogerebert.Suntimes.Com/apps/%.Dll/article?AID=/20110406/REVIEWS/110409994

Your Highness (directed via manner of David Gordon Green, written by using manner of Danny McBride and Ben Best) is a form of film that I knew is offered, that I typically enjoy and that I?D discover surprisingly embarrassing to function to my weblog. Still after reviewing a number of a long manner extra severe movies, what a consolation it changed into to look some thing goofy, positive adolescent, harking back to jokes and tales that one?D listen through a campfire as a toddler and later as a teenager. Your Highness is some thing of a send-up of sword and sorcery stories, even though that assumes that maximum such recollections are deathly intense and plenty of, in fact, aren't.

In the movie, Danny McBride plays the loser more youthful prince Thadeous to an older ever rushing, ever successful, ever smiling brother prince Fabious (played through James Franco) who in reality loves his extra youthful brother very a wonderful deal, and possibly thinks extra of him than Thadeous thinks of himself. But that?S what makes Fabious so concurrently worrying and fun to have a look at: He loves _everybody_, he?S _always_ smiling and constantly a success, at the same time as Thadeous lives lifestyles inside the shadows, usually obscured thru a cloud of dope, along with his only buddy Courtney (carried out with the aid of Rasmus Hardiker), Thadeous? Squire.

Things start to come to a head while Fabious comes lower back effectively from however another quest with the top of a cyclops, and a damsel that he rescued named Belladonna (performed thru Zooey Deschanel) who he needs to marry. The cyclops have been a minion of the dominion?S exquisite nemesis, the evil warlock Leezar (played with the aid of Justin Theroux) and Belladonna have been Leezar?S prisoner. The King, Tallious (performed thru Charles Dance), so happy with his ever questing older son, decrees that so it will be, and a marriage is set for the next day. Ever smiling, ever constructive, Fabious asks his extra youthful brother to be his satisfactory man. Thadeous accepts even though others in Fabious? Questing celebration make it smooth that they feel he?S no longer worth. Thadeous, hence gets stoned the following morning and blows off the marriage and Boremont (done by manner of Damian Lewis), Fabious? Right-hand-man in this questing adventures, steps-in to take Thadeous? Place. In the period in-between, it additionally will become fairly clean that Belladonna may additionally have been a pretty ?Damsel in distress? But precisely due to the fact Leezar had saved her as a hostage for max of her existence, she didn?T exactly have the delicate manerisms of a princess.

None of this comes to matter, however, because Leezar appears at the wedding along with his _three_ very creepy mothers, steals Belladonna from the ceremony, and carries her off to his tower. The stoned Thadeous, of course, who along with his squire, spent the day harrassing and dispersing sheep of a bunch of similarly stoned peasants, misses all of this, and comes back to a castle heavily damaged from the battle in which Leezar took Belladonna, and back to a distraught Fabious, who now decides to go out on quest once more to retrieve the bride that he loves. The King, still furious at the absence of his younger son to all these events, orders Thadeous to join Fabious on this quest or else to never come back.

And so they depart the next morning. Much ensues, much of it both funny and very, very crude. As an example, Fabious insists that at the beginning of the quest they visit the “Good Wizard of the Woods” and joyful that Thadeous is with him this time, is happy to introduce him to said wizard. He tells Thadeous that “since a child,” he’s _always_ gone to the wisard for good advice at the beginning of every quest. When they get to the wizard's abode, it’s clear that the “good wizard,” while indeed capable of giving good direction (in this case through a magical compass that he gives Fabious and Thadeous) is one smiling but very creepy guy. Everybody seems to see the creepiness of the wizard except for the also ever smiling Fabious...

During their many adventures, the two also meet Isabel (played by Natalie Portman) a fearsome and very, very hot warrior who is out to avenge the deaths of her father and brothers. And it turns out that their quests are somewhat linked because Leezar was probably responsible for their deaths.

The movie is often very crude.  There is some rather unnecessary nudity in the movie (though not by way of either Deschanel's Belladonna or Portman's Isabel) but rather as a result of the questing party encountering a group of Amazon-like female warriors, who are led a very, very creepy male chieftain. Then there’s a very, very crude scene near the end of their adventure involving a rather aroused Minotaur that the party encounters in a requisite labyrinth (where minotaurs always live...).

Once more, the movie is definitely “not for everyone,” and people have asked why actors of the caliber of James Franco and Natalie Portman or for that matter Zoey Deschanel would "waste their time" with a movie like this.  But I do think "I get" part of the appeal (for both the actors and the audience).  It's a movie can be very entertaining for those who’ve liked these kind of stories or for those just want kick back and relax after after a long week (or after taking themselves _way too seriously_ for some time).  It must have been a blast to make this movie!

And lest we get too high on our horses, I do wish to remind folks here that the Bible’s book of Judges contains many stories that can best be understood ones told as jokes or stories around a campfire some 3500 years ago. Of particular note is the story of Ehud the Assassin who slew the King of Moab with a homemade dagger, the story noting that the King of Moab was so fat that his rolls of fat swallowed the dagger in its entirety so that Ehud could not pull the dagger back out (Judges 3:12-27). Not denying the story’s possible or even probable historicity, it still sounds like a story that would have been quite popular among young men sitting around an Israelite campfire “back in the day.”

Anyway, please don’t live your lives like this, but (for some of you) enjoy the film ... ;-)

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