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Your Highness (15)

Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy


The critical consensus

Infinitely superior to a Meet The Spartans-style spoof, chiefly thanks to a first-rate cast, Highness ticks all the bawdy boxes. But if you seek sophistication, raise the drawbridge.

***(*)(*)James Mottram, Total Film, 29/03/2011

The set-up established, it's an hour and a half of weakwilly jokes, making this a film to be appreciated only by those who think using modern swearwords in a medieval setting is automatically funny... and online pornographers.

**(*)(*)(*)Daily Record, 08/04/2011

A decent, affectionate, fitfully funny take on the fantasy genre, but this could have been so much more. For fans of this sort of comedy only.

**(*)(*)(*)Sam Toy, Empire Online, 11/04/2011

Too often Your Highness just piles on clichés and knob gags, then crosses its fingers and hopes that magic will happen.

The Scotsman, 12/04/2011

All in all it’s great fun. Just lose the penis jokes boys, we love you anyway.

***(*)(*)Mhairi Brennan, The Skinny, 12/04/2011

Vulgarity is substituted for wit, and it’s conclusively not funny.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Paul Gallagher, The List, 14/04/2011

It makes Mel Brooks’s Robin Hood: Men in Tights look like a masterpiece. Plodding where it should gallop, crude more than lewd, provoking shrugs rather than thigh-slaps, it should be called Your Lowness.

**(*)(*)(*)Sukhdev Sandhu, The Telegraph, 14/04/2011

It’s the winking at the audience that makes it unfunny, not to mention the combination of weak jokes and subpar delivery.

**(*)(*)(*)Paul Greenwood, Evening Times, 15/04/2011

How the filmmakers managed to line up an A-list cast is baffling, because they've been handed the Lamest. Gags. Ever.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 15/04/2011

This cheerful film has no ambitions other than to deliver laughs, and that it does.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 14/04/2011

I hope, for their sakes, they were laughing...all the way to the bank.

**(*)(*)(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 15/04/2011

This expensive, laugh-free sword-and-sorcery folly doesn't even deliver on the medieval stoner movie promise of its punning title.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 16/04/2011

The aim presumably is a sophisticated comic sword-and-sorcery fairytale along the lines of The Princess Bride or The Court Jester. But it's more penis-in-codpiece than tongue-in-cheek.

Philip French, The Observer, 17/04/2011

David Gordon Green’s knights and damsels in distress caper is on a par with the Black Death.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 14/04/2011

It’s certainly bizarre, but only because it’s so consistently hit and miss – the occasional sharp riff on the fantasy genre (a dwarf-hanging, the enjoyable baddie and his crones) swimming in a wash of vulgarity and juvenilia.

Demetrios Matheou, Sunday Herald, 17/04/2011


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General release. Check local listings for show times.

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