Your Highness (2011–102 mins) James Franco, Danny McBride, Natalie Portman

I will make it pretty simple for all of you loyal readers of my Red Box Reviews… “Your Highness” is a swords and sorcery version of “Pineapple Express”. There really isn’t any other way to explain it. Franco plays the perfect son and amazing swordsman Prince Fabious. The bad son/screwup is Danny McBride as Prince Thadeous. They embark upon a quest to rescue Fabious’ captured love Belladonna (Z. Deschanel). On the way they have some adventures, get betrayed, go to a dirty old sooth-sayer, hit on wenches, and pick up a worthy and hot companion in Portman’s Isabel.

As far as crude rude and over the top humor goes, I enjoyed it a lot more then “MacGruber”. But then again “MacGruber” was one of the worst movies I have ever sat through. It’s not that “Your Highness” is bad, it’s just a bit sloppy, the effects are brutal at times,  and overall the writing was too over the top at times also. HOWEVER, that being said I can 100% say that if I was with the boys drinking some beers this movie would be one I wouldn’t turn down at all. It’s got that type of humor. Franco and McBride are 2 guys who are so damn good at poiking fun at themselves and delivering the perfect lines that it’s 100% enjoyable to watch. But I think the uncomfortableness of the flick makes it one where I don’t know if I would always think it’s a great watch with the wife movie. It might not even be a good date movie. It’s just a guys movie. A good one but just a guys movie.

Portman, while I think is beautiful, isn’t the perfect one for this role. I think she was trying to emulate Kira Knightly, and be better then her from “King Arthur”, and sure she looks decent with a bow, she’s just out of place here. Possibly it might have been better to have Zooey Deschanel as that part (she can play a decent badass too), and some typical model type or another comedienne as the fair maiden.

Verdict—> I think I said it about 4 times above but here’s one more!—> It’s a guys movie. A very good and funny guys movie. If you got some beers, some pizza, and want to laugh then sure grab the unrated edition and enjoy it. Anyone else shouldn’t bother.

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