Film 3: Your Highness

Warning the following uld contain spoilers!

Film: Your Highness
April 2011

Director: David Gordon Green

Starring: Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Theroux

Plot: Thadeous (McBride) is the younger son of the king he has spent his life in the shadow of his older brother Fabious (Franco), who has always succeeded at any quest given to him and has wooed the beautiful Belladonna (Deschanel) whom he intends to marry as soon as it can be arranged. Thadeous is excited at the prospect of being the best man until he over hears some knights mocking his poor track record on quest, Thadeous upon hearing this runs out of the wedding in a huff.

The wedding is crashed by the evil warlock Leezar (Theroux) who makes off with Belladonna whom he intends to impregant with a dragon when the two moons converge. Distraught Fabious enlists the help of his knights and brother in order to rescue Belladonna. The brothers learn from a pedophillic fortune teller that the only way to kill Leezar and free Belladonna is to find the fabeled sword of unicorn from within an enchanted labyrinth.

Betrayed by their fellow knights Thadeous and Fabious are captured and forced to fight against a great beast which nearly kills the brothers until they are rescued by a Isabel (Portman) a warrior seeking revenge against Leezar who killed her brothers. Joining together the group journey to the labyrinth where Thadeus retrieved the sword and slays the minotaur guarding it before it can rape Thadeus' servant. Journying to Leezar's kingdom the group kill Leezar and free Belladonna before she is impregnated and ride off home. Fabious and Belladonna are married, while Thadeous is confronted by Isabel who claims to like him but their relationship can only remain friendly until they kill the witch who has the key to her chastity belt, making Thadeous realise they need to go on another quest (thereby leaving room for a sequel unlikely to be made due to the horrible box office performance).

Thoughts going in: The last thing i had paid to see with James Franco was Pinapple Express and dear god i hated that film, i wish i could have gotten my money and more importantly my time but it will be lost to me. I did not know that the director was the same person at all but i saw the trailer and it did have some funny moments in it also it had Natalie Portman and i wasn't going to give it a miss, I should have had some suspicions when the large group of friends that would usually join me to see films all said no, but I went in anyway.

Review:  When I see funny bits in a trailer i hope for more of the same not that all of the comedy in the film could be put into the trailer yet that's what seemingly happened in this film. It was very much like Pineapple Express (which i hear some people actually liked, hear about but never see these people) but set in medieval times. It sums this film up when it cost $50 million to make and only grossed $25 million despite the relatively good amount of advertising it received. Looking for positives the cast preform their roles well enough, but once again another film that brings in Zooey Deschanel just to sing a song and be a bit strange rather than to actually act.

Score: D+, It was going to get and F but the humour in the trailer and more importantly Natalie Portman in a golden bikini brought it up.

Says its title: Yes (so at least it had that going for it)

Worth the DVD?: No, it is not worth owning in anyone's collection, However for the bit with Natalie Portman, maybe.