Thursday 14 April 2011

Magic. Motherfucker!

Your Highness (2011)
Chosen by me as I like to go to the cinema a lot.


A better Dungeons and Dragons movie than the DnD films themselves. This is a well made and for the most part straight fantasy story.
With lots and lots of swearing.
Which I found funny every time. There's a trend for fantasy to be very middle class and conservative which this both subverts and reinforces.
However it really needed to be funnier, not just relying on (a huge amount) of gay panic jokes and overt sexual gags but is occasionally quite clever and had they paid as much attention to the humour as they do the tropes and cliches it could have been The Princess Bride for the stoner crowd. As it is it's a bit more like a big budget Flesh Gordon.
The cast are mostly game (Deschanel doesn't really get to do much), with Justin Theroux and Toby Jones being particularly good.

2 comments:

  1. Oh this has Theroux? I am fond of him.. that may sway me to see this :)

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