+ Best Fantasy Movie of the Year
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| Three game stars walled in by a dragon and a multi-headed monster on the poster for David Gordon Green's Your Highness |
Fabious and Thadeous are wildly divergent brothers. But when Fabious' virgin fiancée gets kidnapped by an evil wizard, the two will have to unify their powers to reclaim her.
Co-writer/star Danny McBride (This Is the End (2013)) and his gang have created a wild and wildly amusing adventure movie, replete with Minotaur cock, a sexless Toby Jones (Virginia (2010)) playing 'Julie' and James Franco (Homefront (2013)) in a crazy-funny, self-ironically homo-erotic lead.
Damian Lewis (Dreamcatcher (2003)) is good; Justin Theroux (The Leftovers (2014-15)) is energetic and fun; Natalie Portman (V for Vendetta (2005)) is fantastically nonchalant and strong; and McBride is sort of like a prince-version of Homer Simpson.
Your Highness is written by McBride and Ben Best (Eastbound and Down (2009-13)) and directed by David Gordon Green (Joe (2013)). It is an enormous film, if you consider the limited target audience the film turned out to have. It is remarkable how it often prioritizes adventure over insanity, although some might find that debatable. It is a consistent and fun stoner comedy, with emphasis on stoner. - I'm pretty sure I even rate this a tiny bit higher than Green's preceding, fun stoner comedy Pineapple Express (2008).
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Watch the trailer for the film here
Cost: 50 mil. $
Box office: 28 mil. $
= Huge flop
[Your Highness has received generally poor reviews and opened catastrophically bad in North America, at #6, with just 9.3 mil. $, ending its run there with 21.5 mil. $ (77 % of the total gross). Franco was eventually Razzie nominated for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Al Pacino for Jack and Jill. Roger Ebert hated Your Highness and called it "a sad film". - I call it hilarious!]
What do you think of Your Highness?
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