Your Highness – Schwerter, Joints und scharfe Bräute (2011)

Your Highness – Schwerter, Joints und scharfe Bräute: Directed by David Gordon Green. With Danny McBride, James Franco, Rasmus Hardiker, Natalie Portman. When Prince Fabious’s bride is kidnapped, he goes on a quest to rescue her… accompanied by his lazy useless brother Thadeous.

“David Gordon Greenu0026#39;s crude, silly and dirty medieval fantasy adventure spoof u0026#39;Your Highnessu0026#39; is hilarious and even charming. Iu0026#39;m not a big fan of the overuse of toilet humour that has polluted most Hollywood films today but here it works. The good mix of adult (pretty modern-day) humour and the medieval look and language (I use this word loosely) is itself something difficult to achieve. Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, the movie has heart. u0026#39;Your Highnessu0026#39; pays tribute to many of those old action adventure fantasy films that we have grown up watching like u0026#39;Conan The Barbarianu0026#39;, u0026#39;The Dark Crystalu0026#39;, u0026#39;Lady Hawku0026#39; etc. The costumes and sets are pretty cool and the special effects and robotics are brilliant. The humour does appear forced at times but the funny characters keep it going.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe actors doe a fine job with their obviously fake British accent (with the exception of Charles Dance and a few others). Danny McBride (who also co-wrote), James Franco and Justin Theroux are very good. This is perhaps Natalie Portmanu0026#39;s funniest role to date and she does a decent job. Her role was also supposed to be sexy but thatu0026#39;s something difficult to do when youu0026#39;re in a movie that has Zooey Deschanel. Deschanel shows a good dose of cleavage and here she is cast as the damsel in distress (something different for her). She doesnu0026#39;t have much screen time but manages to make the viewer stare at her and chuckle.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOn the flip side, the pacing is uneven and there were some scenes could have easily been funnier. Anyway, the movie doesnu0026#39;t take itself seriously and its certainly not a bad suggestion for a Friday night or an indoor flick for a rainy day.”