Your Highness is a silly medieval comedy from the guy who brought us Pineapple Express, and is pretty much what you would expect. Danny McBride plays Zach Galifianakis as a prince who is trapped in the shadow of his older and better brother. An evil warlock steals Zooey Deschanel and the two go on a quest to save her, with much fun and frolics and penis on the way.


There's only one big problem I have with this film, and that's the accents. Zooey Deschanel should be killed for that garbled nonsense she was trying to pass off as British. James Franco and Natalie Portman were slightly better, so I'll let them off with a gentle wounding.


Apart from that, the only flaws I noticed were that there are some pretty weak reasons for some of the twists (won't go into more detail to avoid spoilers), and some stupid bits like at one point some samurai come out of nowhere and attack them. That was a bit weird.


Also, there is an abundance of swearing in the film, used in contrast to the olde English language for comic effect, but this grows old pretty fast at the start of the film because of the amount it's used. There's a lapse in the middle of the film where it completely stops, and this gives the swearing towards the end of the film a little reprieve, but certainly around the start of the film the "saying fuck for a punchline" bit was becoming grating.


The film is very quirky, and I enjoyed how knowingly goofy it was being in parts, but on the whole I felt the trailer over-sold it a little, as it was definitely not as funny as I was hoping. It's the kind of film you could just whack on when you're getting pissed with your mates and laugh at. Kind of a less-funny Superbad. Having said that, it's a decent film and worth a watch, just don't expect to be rofl-ing.