by Jonathan Klotz
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Highly fantasy films never do well at the box office. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is the exception rather than the rule, and R-rated comedies have always faced an uphill battle, which is why it doesn’t make sense to… Your Highness It was primarily green lit.
The sex-obsessed comedy is, on paper, a concept that would lose all the studio money, but once again, director David Gordon Green was directing. Pineapple Expressso if anyone could make a fantasy sex comedy in 2011, it would be him. Instead of redefining the rules of Hollywood, Your Highness It was a huge bomb and the only time it appeared in 2025 was as a sentence of words.
championship James Franco as Prince Charming Fabius and Danny McBride as his noticeably lazy and less successful brother, Prince Thaddeus, Your Highness It looks like a parody. This is a twist, played straight. Or straight up, like the movie in which an evil wizard (Justin Theroux) tries to impregnate a virgin (Zooey Deschanel) in order to fulfill an ancient prophecy predicting the birth of a dragon.
The film’s tone is as uneven as a seesaw, losing all the trappings of fantasy for a gay panic or other sex joke. Even McBride’s ad-libs fail to stand up to the weight of an unwieldy script that can’t figure out what kind of movie it wants to be.
The only part of Your Highness What received any notice when it finally debuted, after two years on the shelf, was a brief shot of Natalie Portman’s bare butt in the trailer. Sex may be popular, but Portman’s juicy butt, which was the highlight of the trailer, didn’t result in many butts in the seats when the film debuted. It also hid the fact that Portman’s Isabelle doesn’t appear very often Your HighnessWhich is a shame, as her comedic chemistry with Danny McBride proves that the Oscar winner can do anything she sets her mind to.
Your Highness It was deemed crude and out of touch in 2011, and today parts of it are outdated, as is the painting in Dorian Gray’s attic. The Minotaur alone would be enough to cancel the movie today. Which makes it even more shocking that the scene was edited when a studio executive passed along a text note to make it even dirtier than it already was. It’s another way in which the film tried to challenge conventional wisdom on its way to success. Creatively, it brought David Gordon Green’s vision to life, but financially it was a disaster.
$50 million is a pittance for an epic fantasy film, but it’s at the highest levels for a comedy. Your Highness It did not make back its budget, ending its theatrical run with $28 million worldwide. You might think it would be a hit on DVD, but that’s not the case.
Gordon Green’s previous film, Pineapple Expressmade a better impression, and his more recent work Halloween The trilogy is a flawed but fun take on the horror icon. Your Highness It is a forgotten film.
Your Highness Review the result
What went wrong with the ambitious sex comedy was because it refused to conform to any single genre. Years before it was cancelled, James Franco was miscast as Fabius, a role that would have been more successful with an actor who could be the straight man to McBride’s wild rants and one-liners. imagine Orlando BloomOr Charlie Hunnam or Garrett Hedlund in the role instead, and the comedy would flow better rather than two guys competing for the position of “funny guy.”
Your Highness It’s not a good movie, but its unique blend of genres and a series of stunningly bad decisions combine to make it a great watch. You either laugh along with McBride’s twisted sense of humor or laugh, wondering who thought the Wize Wizard was a good idea.
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