onsdag 10 augusti 2011

Your Highness


Title: Your Highness.
Playtime: 102 min.
Genre: Adventure Comedy Fantasy.
Release Date: 8 April 2011.

Brave knights, decieving thiefs, dangerous beasts, powerful wizards and fairly... hot maidens. These are the qualities of a normal film in the genre: fantasy.
Your highness is, however not a normal fantasy film. Throughout the film, we witness angry dwarfs, pervert wizards, penisless old men, a warlock going through puberty, a horny minotaur, and of course... the hot maiden.
Your highness is a parody of adventure, fantasy films, but without the lousy humor with jokes taken from a kindergarden. The humor may not be as sharp as in House, but it rates far higher than the cheap humor of films as Superhero Movie, or Epic Movie.

Prince Fabious' (James franco) is the typical heroic knight seen in almost any fantasy film. His brother Thadeous (Danny McBride) however, is quite the opposite. Being fat and playful, he's the black sheep of the family. When Fabious bride-to-be is kidnapped, it's time for Thadeous to set out on his first grand quest, along with his squire, brother, and the company that comes with him, to retrieve the bride from an evil warlock known as Leezar.
As one might figure, things don't go quite as well for Thadeous and his gang...

Despite never have seeing Danny McBride acting before, I found myself very fond of his acting. People may say he's none but a fool, but I believe it takes some talent to play a clumsy fool.

James franco played his role well, but nothing more than that. After Spider Man and 127 hours, I can't see him playing a role where he's not serious.

Natalie Portman, who acted as Isabel, was never dissapointing as a female rouge, determant to avenge her family. Anyone who has ever seen a film with Natalie Portman acting must agree that she's a damned talented actor.
As a fine bonus, we get to see her rear butt naked, as she decides to take a swim. ;)

Sadly, the effects felt kind of B, but I personally think the rest of the film was good enough for me to close my eyes for that.
I definately urge anyone who likes medieval films with a touch of humor to watch Your Highness.

This movie gets the rating 7 out of 10.


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