Review of Your Highness (2011) by Zubair P — 13 Apr 2016

I don't know how people as funny and endearing as Danny McBride and David Gordon Green managed to make such an unfunny movie. The laughs are few and far between and when they come they're pretty light. It doesn't play like a tribute to fantasy films but it doesn't play like a parody of them either. That's because no real attempt has been made to do either. The genre of fantasy seems almost incidental. It feels like your watching a bad SNL sketch that's been strenuously extended to nearly two hours. Natalie Portman, to her credit, is so competent as an actor and so incredibly beautiful that it almost makes up for inherent weakness of the movie. Almost. I couldn't help feeling a little bad for her as my mind wandered, wondering what was running through her mind while she was on set. If she was, as I imagine, rolling with the punches and calmly reassuring herself that her career will survive Your Highness, then she was right. But that's again to her credit.

What a stinker. One star for Portman, one star for all of the jokes combined (which played back to back would be about six minutes long and much better than the movie itself).