Your Highness

Your Highness

With Danny McBride and James Franco starring in the movie, you would think the movie would be very funny.  Sadly, this comedy is not funny at all, and comes across as desperate and searching for jokes.  The weakest part of the movie is the script.  It just feels unfinished. 

Basically, Katy Perry, uh, I mean Zooey Deschanel is a virgin that is kidnapped by a warlock and attempts to have sex with her.  Her future husband and his goofy brother go on a quest to save her. 

Some of the better aspects of the movie are the jokes about other fantasy movies from the 80s.  And, I think that was the original idea for the movie, but that concept kind of got lost in the making of the film.  There are clear jokes about Clash of the Titans and Lord of the Rings throughout the movie, and those jokes are handled well and are funny.  The rest of the movie is a complete and utter mess.

The main villain is also boring and doesn’t come off as menacing.  Even in a comedy, the bad guy needs to be a bad guy and not a complete joke, with the exception of Space Balls. 

There is one exception to the blandness, and that is a strange fish puppet creature that has an inappropriate relationship with Franco. 

You can clearly tell McBride and Franco were trying their best to make a rather dull script funnier.  The movie had the potential of being a funny take on those 70s and 80s movies.  I am really disappointed with McBride because I’ve liked everything else he’s been in.  Don’t bother watching the movie if like funny movies. 

Grade: D+

 McBride:  "Great, you get Katy Perry and all I get is a horse."

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