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My Thoughts on "Your Highness"
14 years ago
I went to the movies today and decided to give "Your Highness" a go. How was it? Honestly, I'm a bit torn...
First of all, it wasn't rib-splittingly hilarious as I had hoped. From the previews it seemed to me that it would be a gamer's riot and unfortunately, this was not the case. In fact, clear throughout the movie I was expecting them to pan out and it be a bunch of nerds playing a game of D&D or something. But nope, nothing like that.
My major issue with most of the jokes was they seemed to rely heavily on a) foul language or b) middle-school like behavior. However, there were some moments that shined through. And the visual jokes were where the movie seemed to shine, comedy wise. They also tried to prey on that "look at how uncomfortable these guys feel! ITS SO AWKWARD! AWKWARD IS FUNNY! LAUGH AT OUR ATTEMPT AT HUMOR!!!!" type of "comedy" that just makes me in turn uncomfortable. I don't find it funny when they try too hard to prey on that sort of thing. It's as if they aren't trying to be witty, just make a bunch of little kids laugh at these people for being losers.
The plot? It was your basic fantasy plot. Let's face it: fantasy plots are stale. You know what to expect going in, and typically fantasy movies follow the questing formula. There's a quest, people on it learn about themselves and each other, and are better people (or dead) by the end of the story. The plot also focuses on the "sibling jealous of more popular, well liked, successful sibling" side of story telling. All in all, not remarkable. But not disappointing, either.
What did impress me, was the puppetry in the few instances it was used. The "wise wizard" and minotaur were well done costumes and I enjoyed the scenes they were in immensely. They were no Jim Henson creature shop productions, but they were still fun to watch. Simon (mechanical bird) was also occasionally an animatronic piece instead of CGI, and was done well in both methods (I occasionally had a small bit of trouble telling the two apart).
At any rate, I would give the film a 6.5-7 out of 10. Not the greatest film, but far from the worst I've seen.
First of all, it wasn't rib-splittingly hilarious as I had hoped. From the previews it seemed to me that it would be a gamer's riot and unfortunately, this was not the case. In fact, clear throughout the movie I was expecting them to pan out and it be a bunch of nerds playing a game of D&D or something. But nope, nothing like that.
My major issue with most of the jokes was they seemed to rely heavily on a) foul language or b) middle-school like behavior. However, there were some moments that shined through. And the visual jokes were where the movie seemed to shine, comedy wise. They also tried to prey on that "look at how uncomfortable these guys feel! ITS SO AWKWARD! AWKWARD IS FUNNY! LAUGH AT OUR ATTEMPT AT HUMOR!!!!" type of "comedy" that just makes me in turn uncomfortable. I don't find it funny when they try too hard to prey on that sort of thing. It's as if they aren't trying to be witty, just make a bunch of little kids laugh at these people for being losers.
The plot? It was your basic fantasy plot. Let's face it: fantasy plots are stale. You know what to expect going in, and typically fantasy movies follow the questing formula. There's a quest, people on it learn about themselves and each other, and are better people (or dead) by the end of the story. The plot also focuses on the "sibling jealous of more popular, well liked, successful sibling" side of story telling. All in all, not remarkable. But not disappointing, either.
What did impress me, was the puppetry in the few instances it was used. The "wise wizard" and minotaur were well done costumes and I enjoyed the scenes they were in immensely. They were no Jim Henson creature shop productions, but they were still fun to watch. Simon (mechanical bird) was also occasionally an animatronic piece instead of CGI, and was done well in both methods (I occasionally had a small bit of trouble telling the two apart).
At any rate, I would give the film a 6.5-7 out of 10. Not the greatest film, but far from the worst I've seen.
Really looking forward to Arthur, though.