They don’t make many fantasy comedy movies, especially since comic book and remakes have taken over Hollywood. I’m a fan of Danny McBride’s style of comedy (rude, crude and obnoxious) and that mixed into a fantasy setting really clicked with me. There aren’t too many movies like Your Highness out there. It sticks to the fantasy formula (damsel in distress, magic, sword fighting, mythical creatures) but has enough ideas of it’s own to keep things interesting. The creative cursing helps too.

Thadeous (Danny McBride) is a bum of a prince and reluctantly goes along on adventure with his brother Fabious (James Franco) to save his girlfriend from an evil wizard. McBride and Franco are an awesome team (as first seen in Pineapple Express) and the whole movie pretty much rides on them. They’re surrounded by some great people (Natalie Portman and Rasmus Hardiker in particular) which results in some really funny moments. The laughs come in a few bursts, but on the whole I thought it was pretty funny. The movie is helped greatly by some quality special effects work, they managed to get a legit budget for this goofy project and hooked up with some companies who really knew what they were doing.

McBride and director/friend David Gordan Green know and work really well with each other and it really shows in their projects. I look forward to all the stuff they do.