Your Highness

Your Highness woulda, coulda, shoulda been a silly, slightly bawdy, and extremely entertaining fantasy/comedy. But even with so many big name actors and such a talented director this movie found a way to disappoint. It seemed as though Your Highness was written on a roll of toilet paper after eating a digestively challenging meal. If the writing hadn't been so horrible the story might have been something worth watching. The movie is set in medieval times and tells the story of two princes on a quest to save a maiden from an evil wizard. Thadeous (Danny McBride) is the younger brother and main character in the film. He plays a lazy, arrogant miscreant of a prince who is jealous of his older close-to-perfect brother Fabious (James Franco). It was hard to find any redeeming qualities in Thadeous. In fact, very early on in the film I found myself hoping for the demise of his character and the ultimate redemption of the much more sympathetic character and bad guy, the wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux). The warrior, Isabel (Natalie Portman) was the best part of the film, but for as beguiling as it was hearing her say such disturbingly brutal lines, that novelty was not enough to make me like Your Highness. I hoped that I wouldn't end up hating this movie, but once the severed genitalia became a necklace all hope was lost.