Your Highness

Time for another special FTRQ review for another Potentially Bad Movie Night with Emilie Staat (@emofalltrades on Twitter)! This week we have "Your Highness", a farcical tale of knights, maidens and quests starring Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel. How did our movie night turn out? Read on!

DONNA:
Okay, bear with me again here. There is a fine line a comedy walks between funny & farcical and over-the-top stupidity. Your Highness tries very hard to walk *exactly* on that line, which is precarious business. It often fails, falling badly into the banal & stupid, but the comedic talents of McBride & Franco save it over and over again. I found myself laughing far more than I sighed or groaned. Not great, but certainly not bad either, so in the end this is the only rating I can give it. 3/5  

EMILIE:
Watching Your Highness is like watching a group of teenage boys playing the penis game, one extended dare to see who can be the loudest and most daring. If it were funnier or ever strayed from the penis/sex/gay jokes, it would've been far better and might have a chance of standing the test of time like Monty Python movies or Princess Bride. But there's absolutely no subtly or variation.Natalie Portman is the best thing about the movie, but she arrives far too late. Enormously funny Zooey Deschanel is given so little to do that it's embarrassing, yet she *almost* succeeds in turning her vacuous, wide-eyed Belladonna into a satirical caricature of what she's expected to be. I expected a stupid movie. I just thought it would be a more clever stupid movie than it was. 2.5/5


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DONNA'S RATING: 3/5
EMILIE'S RATING: 2.5/5

Once again, Emilie and I prove we're not too far off in our opinions. We're always within a half of a star of each other - quite a record! What will happen for our next Potentially Bad Movie Night? Stay tuned! :)

Your Highness on Netflix