Your Highness... Worth seeing?

[GameDoc]

This film is getting bad reviews. However, given the genre, I didn't expect it to play well with mainstream audiences or critics. So, I have come here to get the nerd's perspective.

Has anyone seen it, and if so is it at least worth a matinee?

 

[SteelDraco]

I saw it last night, and wouldn't recommend it at all. The depth of humor wasn't there, in my opinion. There was a possibility for a deeper parody, but it was mostly just juvenile jokes about sex and drugs. And, sadly, they were predictable and unfunny jokes about sex and drugs. Pineapple Express (another movie with the same director and stars) was far better, and I didn't even expect to like that movie very much. I wouldn't waste my time with going to see it.

 

[Dannager]

Haven't seen it, but I was reading tweets last night from people like Greg Bilsland who said it was basically like watching a game of D&D, if all of the crude jokes and off-color humor were said by your characters instead of by you.

 

[Guest 85555]

I am going to wait for this one to come out in DVD. I really liked Pineapple Express, but I can't see McBride and Franco having the same chemistry as Franco and Rogan. The reviews for this film do look pretty bad. And Roger Ebert (who I probably heed most) panned it. David Edelstein liked it and said it was a a good mix of high brow and low brow (which I usually like). Who knows. I say watch it, see if it you like for yourself.

 

[pawsplay]

It's usually a good sign when the panning reviews make me want to see something more.

Seriously, Roger Ebert says:

"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. One of the heroes even wears the penis of a minotaur on a string around his neck.

... these are a few of my favorite things?

 

[nedjer]

Where in god's name does one lay one's hands upon a minotaur's penis?

Think carefully before replying to that, it could go horribly wrong.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Where in god's name does one lay one's hands upon a minotaur's penis?

Earlier in the movie.

 

[Mark CMG]

Where in Zeus's name does one lay one's hooves upon a minotaur's penis?

FIFEuropa.

 

[GameDoc]

Where in god's name does one lay one's hands upon a minotaur's penis?

A labyrinth, where else?

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Where in god's name does one lay one's hands upon a minotaur's penis?

From a DEAD minotaur one would hope...
[off to scrub bad images from my mind]