As you know, Blockbuster Canada is shutting down operations and jumping ship, leaving their disgruntled and bitter employees to ring through my impulse sale purchases of videos! Since I got caught up in the deceptive idea that I'd be saving money by buying their 25% discounted movies, I have now collected a nice pile of what I'm sure will be terrible but hilarious entertainment. This is why I've decided to watch and critique the movies as I go along and share my opinions on my probably non-existent hits, but giant misses for, hopefully, more entertaining discussion. Feel free to comment on whether or not you agree with me!
So here we go with the first in my collection...
"Your Highness" - starring James Franco, Danny McBride, and Natalie Portman.
The best way of describing this movie is incredibly painful. As someone who enjoyed Pineapple Express and both Franco and McBride's performances in that movie, I was expecting good if not at least decent things from Your Highness. I was sorely let down. With a budget that was used more on their special effects and wardrobe (i.e. funny hats and pantaloons, etc. etc.), it's like they forgot they needed to write a script. So at the end of the day they just mashed together an obvious plot, with some obvious toilet humour and sex jokes, and added a few scenes of naked women for distraction from it (who needs words when you have naked women right?) and then called it a movie! And warning: No acting was required in the making of this film. They didn't care enough to act. And I know I shouldn't criticize a stoner movie like I would criticize an Oscar winning movie, but just in comparison to Pineapple Express, Your Highness doesn't even come close to good! They had a good idea and a good cast and they could have made this a better movie if they had just actually put a little effort into it!
4 out of 10.
What are your thoughts? Do you agree with my bashing? Or did you like it?
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