Your Highness
Universal Pictures | Release Date: April 8, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
14
Negative:
17
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
67
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovApr 7, 2011
Your Highness is awfully vulgar fun when it works, which is much of the time (although it could've benefited from a few judicious cuts here and there). Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 7, 2011
Most of the humor in Your Highness is obvious, tepid, and often crude. There are some amusing one-liners but the majority of the comedy makes one realize how brilliant "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyApr 7, 2011
To fully appreciate the extreme lowness of Your Highness, it's best to accept that this sometimes witless and sometimes winning comedy has absolutely no socially redeeming value. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanApr 7, 2011
It's Franco's straight-faced turn that grounds this proudly lowbrow caper from his "Pineapple Express" collaborators, David Gordon Green and Danny McBride. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichApr 6, 2011
The belly laughs do come, many of them courtesy of the mechanical bird companion. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumApr 7, 2011
Natalie Portman, by the way, is fierce and funny as a babe warrior the brothers meet along the way. She's good with dirty words, too. Read full review
55
MovielineMichelle OrangeApr 7, 2011
The puffy high tones of medieval fantasy punctured by the flatly vulgar and colloquial - is the film's central comic vein, one McBride taps it like it's never been tapped before. Read full review
50
New York PostLou LumenickApr 8, 2011
Your Highness refuses to take itself seriously, which is both boring and sort of charming to a limited extent. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephanie MerryApr 7, 2011
While the chemistry between characters is impressive and the comic delivery spot-on, the jokes feel unoriginal. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigApr 7, 2011
Misguided raunchfest. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyApr 7, 2011
Half-baked, both in plot and execution, this spoof's for adolescent boys who find Minotaur private parts amusing and Queen Amidala in a chastity belt sexy. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinApr 7, 2011
If Your Highness often feels like an inside joke, the principals neglected to let the audience in on the fun. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreApr 6, 2011
It's meant to be faintly Pythonesque with a hint of bowdlerized "The Black Adder"...But it's entirely too slow of foot for that comparison to pay off. Read full review
40
EmpireSam ToyApr 11, 2011
A decent, affectionate, fitfully funny take on the fantasy genre, but this could have been so much more. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisApr 7, 2011
May be better enjoyed in an herb-enhanced condition. Getting stoned is, after all, a running joke in this comedy, which is as thin as rolling paper and just as ephemeral. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 6, 2011
It's an ironclad rule for comedies: Stupid is fine, as long as it's funny. But if it's not? Well, then it's just . . . stupid. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyApr 7, 2011
By comparison to this effort, "Pineapple Express" seems like a model of thoughtful maturity. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 7, 2011
An exhaustingly pushy, phallocentric and witlessly smutty spoof of early '80s medieval fantasies such as "Krull" and "The Beastmaster." Read full review
30
Village VoiceNick PinkertonApr 5, 2011
Your Highness plays like a dirty-joke blooper reel made by the cast of a junky sword-and-sorcery epic. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallApr 10, 2011
Your Highness is drive-by directing at its laziest, linking late-night sketch ideas in a quest for comedy as difficult to locate as the Holy Grail. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerApr 8, 2011
Full disclosure: I have to say I did laugh during Your Highness. Twice, I think. Read full review
25
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottApr 8, 2011
A textbook example of ye olde two-joke movie. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertApr 7, 2011
Your Highness is a juvenile excrescence that feels like the work of 11-year-old boys in love with dungeons, dragons, warrior women, pot, boobs and four-letter words. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliApr 7, 2011
The chief problem with Your Highness is its lack of imagination - its misuse and overuse of language and visual riffs that are only marginally amusing at best. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversApr 7, 2011
Nothing works. Nothing. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezApr 7, 2011
The film will probably play a lot better in dorm rooms with plenty of beer kegs and bongs on hand, but in the confines of a movie theater, it's deadly - the sort of bad comedy Mel Brooks made late in his career, until he finally smartened up and quit. Read full review
12
Boston GlobeTy BurrApr 7, 2011
The most painful movie so far in a year that's already scraping the bottom of the barrel, Your Highness is a tedious, dung-colored misfire that sullies the genre of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "The Princess Bride." Read full review
10
TimeRichard CorlissApr 8, 2011
Occasionally curious moviegoers will discover an especially rotten specimen of the genus Cinema stinkibus... a work of ur-awfulness, counterbrilliance and antigenius. Your Highness, the new medieval-fantasy farce starring and co-written by Danny McBride, is such a movie. Read full review
10
Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondApr 8, 2011
So thuddingly awful you won't crack a smile. Read full review
10
SalonAndrew O'HehirApr 7, 2011
Gingival surgery would be more fun than watching this brain-draining, spirit-sucking attempt at a stoner spoof, which combines the cutting edge of frat-boy wit, the excitement of a mid-'80s made-for-TV action flick and the authenticity of a Renaissance Faire held in an abandoned field behind a Courtyard by Marriott. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesApr 7, 2011
Unwatchable-and, thanks to its high-decibel action sequences, barely listenable-this misbegotten medieval fantasy/stoner comedy marks a new low for David Gordon Green. Read full review
10
VarietyPeter DebrugeApr 5, 2011
That skunky smell emanating from Your Highness ain't pot; it's the stink of miscalculation that surrounds an inside joke gone awry. Read full review
0
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttApr 5, 2011
There is little worse in the movie world than a spoof that falls flat on its over-costumed butt, but that's what you get with Your Highness. Read full review
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