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Your Highness Review

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1.5

Dave White Profile

Your Dumbness Read full review

3.0

Grae Drake Profile

Charmingly lowbrow with a chain mail flavor. Read full review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 2.0
    31

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  • 0

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

    There is little worse in the movie world than a spoof that falls flat on its over-costumed butt, but that's what you get with Your Highness.

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  • 10

    out of 100

    Variety

    That skunky smell emanating from Your Highness ain't pot; it's the stink of miscalculation that surrounds an inside joke gone awry.

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  • 25

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    Your Highness is a juvenile excrescence that feels like the work of 11-year-old boys in love with dungeons, dragons, warrior women, pot, boobs and four-letter words.

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  • 30

    out of 100

    Village Voice Nick Pinkerton

    Your Highness plays like a dirty-joke blooper reel made by the cast of a junky sword-and-sorcery epic.

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  • 40

    out of 100

    The New York Times Manohla Dargis

    May be better enjoyed in an herb-enhanced condition. Getting stoned is, after all, a running joke in this comedy, which is as thin as rolling paper and just as ephemeral.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    USA Today Claudia Puig

    Misguided raunchfest.

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  • 58

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Natalie Portman, by the way, is fierce and funny as a babe warrior the brothers meet along the way. She's good with dirty words, too.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

    To fully appreciate the extreme lowness of Your Highness, it's best to accept that this sometimes witless and sometimes winning comedy has absolutely no socially redeeming value.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    Most of the humor in Your Highness is obvious, tepid, and often crude. There are some amusing one-liners but the majority of the comedy makes one realize how brilliant "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is.

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For Families provided by Common Sense Media

Iffy for 16+

Ridiculous fantasy comedy is more crass, violent than funny.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this wildly profane, over-the-top medieval fantasy adventure from the director of Pineapple Express has two stars who are likely to appeal to teens: James Franco and Natalie Portman. But this is a raunchy, "hard R" comedy that isn't age appropriate for younger viewers. It's filled with vulgar jokes and cursing ("f--k," "s--t," and more), and there are tons of references to sex, as well as some nudity (breasts, a woman's bottom), drug use, and drinking. And there's plenty of violence -- in the form of sword-fighting, gory battles, torturous creature deaths, and fight scenes -- too.

  • Families can talk about the movie's style of humor. It's clearly meant to be over the top -- what's the appeal of that kind of comedy?
  • Would the movie be as funny without all of the sex, swearing, and violence?
  • How does this movie compare to other fantasy adventures? Would it work as a straight fantasy, without the crude humor? Why or why not?

The good stuff
  • message true0

    Messages: If there’s a message here, it’s that siblings who might seem as though they have nothing in common can, if given the chance (or a quest), reconnect. But apparently they need to do lots of raunchy stuff and kill men and monsters alike in bloody battles before they find common ground.

  • rolemodels true0

    Role models: Though he’s unmotivated, crass, and unhelpful, Thadeous is devoted to his brother.

What to watch for
  • violence false4

    Violence: Creatures are beheaded and shot with arrows, struck by electric currents, pummeled into a pulp, clubbed into submission, gored, speared, and more. Some of the battles get pretty gory; you name the torture, they show it -- though it's all played for laughs, of course. There’s also a joke about being molested.

  • sex false4

    Sex: Pick a scene, any scene, and there’s likely to be a sex joke in it. Bare-breasted women are shown, and a woman’s backside is shown as she dives into a lake. Tons of references to sex of all kinds. A minotaur, with his genitals visible, humps a man; later, another character cuts off the creature's member and wears it around his neck.

  • language false5

    Language: Profanity galore: “F--k," "s--t," "whore,” “slut,” “piss,” "prick," "t-ts," "ass," "hell," "damn," “d--k,” "goddamn," and "c--k" are all here, and many other combinations thereof.

  • consumerism false0

    Consumerism: Not an issue

  • drugsalcoholtobacco false4

    Drinking, drugs and smoking: Princes and creatures smoke what appears to be weed or some sort of hallucinogenic. Also some drinking during revelries and celebrations.

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4

This is for ADULTS only, ADULT HUMOR FULL TILT!!!! by seanc2k
This is a funny movie, but the kids can't be watching this movie. There are tons of sexual overtones, and sexual parts that are shown throughout this movie. The story is ok, but if you are ok with sexual adult humor, then you will love this movie. Danny McBride is hilarious is this movie, and there a few scenes that are just over the top with sexual overtones, but they are funny if you can take it lightly. AGAIN, THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN PERIOD!!!!! I did like the film, and suggest anyone to at least check this out on DVD if you haven't seen it yet.

4

It's a dumb, rauncy comedy by brocktoon
and that is right up my alley so I enjoyed it. I think the critics did not like it because things like gratuitous nudity and child molestation jokes have fallen out of fashion, and this movie is rife with those type of things. I am not a big fan of James Franco either, but this was enjoyable

5

couldnt stop laughing by Jonmdub
When I got out of this movie my face and stomach hurt from laughing so hard! Best comedy I've ever seen. But that being said if you don't enjoy vulgarity then don't see it. I love it and think it makes everything more funny. But I work in a machine shop I'm used to swearing. So stop being a baby and watch it!

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by tushylynn

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