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.
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.
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.
Too often Your Highness just piles on clichés and knob gags, then crosses its fingers and hopes that magic will happen.
All in all it’s great fun. Just lose the penis jokes boys, we love you anyway.
Vulgarity is substituted for wit, and it’s conclusively not funny.
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.
It’s the winking at the audience that makes it unfunny, not to mention the combination of weak jokes and subpar delivery.
It's the pits.
How the filmmakers managed to line up an A-list cast is baffling, because they've been handed the Lamest. Gags. Ever.
This cheerful film has no ambitions other than to deliver laughs, and that it does.
I hope, for their sakes, they were laughing...all the way to the bank.
This expensive, laugh-free sword-and-sorcery folly doesn't even deliver on the medieval stoner movie promise of its punning title.
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.
David Gordon Green’s knights and damsels in distress caper is on a par with the Black Death.
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.
Swords and the stoner.
General release. Check local listings for show times.