Review | Your Highness
Credit: Frank Connor
Opens: Friday 4/8
Us Rating: *
In this dreadfully unfunny stoner flick, two medieval princes (James Franco, Danny McBride) journey to rescue a virgin (Zooey Deschanel) from an evil wizard. En route, they confront -- then befriend -- a feisty archer (Natalie Portman) bent on vengeance. The cerebral Oscar winner (who filmed this before Black Swan) bungles the broad comedy, enunciating annoyingly in Shakespearean diction. And Franco sports his usual squinty-eyed smirk. Consistent with the title's lame pun, the humor is painfully low: McBride spends the movie's climax wearing a beast's penis on a string around his neck. Groan!
-- THELMA ADAMS
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