Review: Your Highness

Recently I had the misfortune to view what I believe will join the ranks of “B” grade movies and serve as a gage to mar the reputation of many great celebrities. Billed as an exciting and thrilling adventure, The synopsis http://www.movies.com/yourhighness/details/m62822) offers a description that is promising. However, after the box-office tickets are purchased or rental fees are relinquished, the first few minutes are sure to lead avid movie goers with a bad taste and disappointment.

The overall plot does have potential and could have become another milestone for Director David Gordon Green, who produced cinematic hits as Krull and The Sword and the Sorcerer in the eighties. But with the poor script writing, constant sexual innuendos and vulgarity, this movie may impede any future funding for cinematic aspirations.

The plot centers on Thadious (Danny McBride), the second son of King Tallious (Charles Dance) who lives in the shadow of his older brother Fabious (James Franco). Thadious spends his life chasing lose maidens and pursuing a life of leisure, while his brother Fabious undertakes great adventure rescuing fair maidens, killing dragons, conquering evil and fighting black magic. The king, exasperated by his youngest sons complacency, orders him to accompany Fabious, along with his man-servant Courtney Rasmus Hardiker) to rescue Fabious’s fiancé Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel) from the clutches of Leezar (Justin Theroux). But the adventure is convoluted in my opinion by an interlude with a wizard (a creature reminiscent of those used in (The Dark Crystal”) who’s payment for knowledge is masturbation by Fabious and Thadious. The story degrades further by their capture and sentenced to fight in an arena controlled by a diapered dictator wizard surrounded by naked women/warriors. They are joined by Isabel (Natalie Portman) who is on her own quest to kill leezar for the death of her seven brothers and father. The four must rescue the Virgin Belladonna, before the two moons intersect and Leezar, mates with her to obtain the birth of a dragon which will grant him unlimited power.

As I stated earlier, the plot could have been developed into a well…good movie anyway, but instead was riddled with vulgarity and profanity. The surprising part to me was that Natalie Portman (bill-boarded to sell movie fans) and Zooey Deschanel allowed themselves to be cast in this travesty, after the rolls in many great movies, already accredited to their names.