Your Highness

The main character of Your Highness = the slightly less dastardly Edmund Blackadder. The servant/companion of the main character = the slightly less stupid Baldrick, servant/companion of Edmund Blackadder. Do you think I was outraged by this "copying" of characters from my beloved Black Adder that I gave the film two stars? Wrong. It was simply the best Your Highness had to offer.____Three of the biggest pains: 1) That the characters compete throughout the film in the use (with a few exceptions) of first-rate profanity of all kinds did not add to my comedic satisfaction. The screenwriters have become unhealthily too attached to this idea and so, after some twenty minutes, instead of all this "as if inappropriate" use of the word “fuck" shocking the viewer and making him laugh, it instead annoys. 2) Cliché, cliché, cliché. The stupid story, which the screenwriters tried to mask with that one idea (see point 1), is incredibly unoriginal, although the attempt at parody is there. Sadly, it’s rare. 3) lazy direction, especially during the action scenes. Even the stuff that could rack up points for originality isn't original. Let alone entertaining. The opening with the execution is reminiscent of Pirates of the Caribbean, the scene with the Wild Wild West carriage, and the fight with the monster is reminiscent of any fight with a monster from TV's Xena. Unfortunately, everything is just a reminder - nothing revelatory happens. It’s simply boring. If the action scenes have any dynamics (the ending especially), they owe it only to Jablonsky's good (based on Zimmer's Pirates, but good) music.____The pros: Praise goes to the great Danny R. McBride, thanks to Zooey Deschanel, who played the naive, know-nothing princess very cutely, I was glad to see Damian Lewis again, although his role... Well... No point in writing about it. The aforementioned Steve Jablonsky was also a pleasure, but his soundtrack would have been much, much better if it had been played by a real big orchestra and not some electronically created imitation of him, whose sound really pulled at the ears in places. The film should be thankful for the two stars. (2011-08-03)

This is such utter nonsense that it's not even nice. The film has absolutely idiotic characters, and it's unbelievable. Some of the gags are really stupid. But I can't help it, when I saw this in the movie theater, I had an incredible amount of fun with it. I literally laughed my head off during some scenes. I guess it was what I needed at the time, and it suited me perfectly. (2014-04-05)

A fairytale crossed with a toker’s comedy with the bombastic background music by Jablonsky and the amazing, breathtaking, gorgeous and wonderful Natalie Portman that has the perfect pace (the story, not Natalie) and presents us things that you would have never imagined. Or maybe you could imagine it, but you wouldn’t believe that someone could have the balls to put things like that into a movie that only a dumb and irresponsible parent would take their seven-year-old to see. P.S.: Franco’s singing is awfully out of tune. (2011-07-30)

Your Highness is the creepy equivalent of any American fantasy, with derivatives of the word "fuck" appearing as if on a treadmill. The plot is prosaic and all the peripeteia around it are more or less old familiar clichés in a slightly different guise. The cast is likeable, Steve Jablonsky's music is great as always and the running time is optimal. I was most impressed by the Marteetee monster and the unconventionally conceived labyrinth with the minotaur. The film tries to be different compared to its genre contemporaries, which it succeeds in certain places, but falls short in others. (2011-06-21)

“Magic. Motherfucker!” An idiosyncratic approach to the fantasy genre in which the situations known from such films are spiced up with assorted variations of the word “fuck” and jokes based on somewhat juvenile awareness of the sexual differences between men and women and the possibility of copulation between one sex and the other (in other words: vagina here, penis there and a lot of  fucking). This approach isn’t very laborious, as it derives comedy exclusively from the uttering of words that are inappropriate in the given context. With a success rate of one out of every three or four attempts, there are many deaf spots in the film, not to mention the highly misogynistic ogling and treatment of the female characters. I was entertained in places and I recognised the amount of money invested in the money shots (though greater cheapness and self-deprecation wouldn’t have hurt anything), but this is something that I didn’t like enough that I would want to see it again. 60% (2011-06-14)