Your Highness Review!!!!!!!!!!!!

Review: Danny McBride and James Franco join Director David Gordon Green in Your Highness, a comedy with some genuinely funny moments that is held back by a weak plot.

Your Highness is not exactly what you would call a smart comedy. It never veers too deeply into the realm of slapstick, nor does it rely too heavily on gimmicks (unless you count male genital jokes-of which there are many), but there is a very dumb undercurrent to it. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its funny moments—it definitely has some laugh out loud parts— it just won’t win over audiences that want depth. It will, however, be a good choice for people looking for a film where they can turn their brain off and have a few laughs.

As mentioned before, Your Highness is funny and enjoyable for the most part, but it’s not going to have the staying power that other, recent comedies have had. The Hangover was R-rated and raunchy at times, but it had an intelligence to it thatYour Highness lacks. Instead, this film tries to amuse you by becoming a parody of fantasy films, and it succeeds for the first half of the film. It is funny to see the heroes face off against a mythical foe and instead of dashing in with swords drawn, they scream, drop an F bomb and run for their lives. That is funny because you don’t expect it.

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Sucker Punch Review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Review: Director Zack Snyder offers us Sucker Punch, his passion project which is a visually stunning and utterly soulless movie.

Sucker Punch is just not a good film. It is an interesting film, it is an original film, and it is definitely a visually stunning film, but it is also a seizure-inducing mess that laughs at the idea of depth and dares you to find anything more to it. At best it can be described as mindless fun, with a heavy emphasis on mindless. By the end of the movie, most will actually walk out of the theater wondering if they missed something—some key element that was deeply buried in the world of the film. Maybe a hidden metaphor, or some allegory. The answer is no, it is just a superficial and soulless two-hour music video directed by a guy that is almost certainly a victim of ADD.

Sucker Punch is actually a fairly hard film to review, mainly because it isn’t really a film. If you took all the actual plot elements and cut them together, the entire movie would be about 15 minutes long. The visual scenes are fairly impressive to watch, but there is nothing holding them together, and there is never any real sense of danger or accomplishment in their completion. But more on the plot later—don’t worry, that section will be brief.

But still, Snyder has to be applauded on taking the chance and trying something new–even though he fails on most levels. Snyder’s films are just somewhat soulless. There is such an emphasis on the visuals that everything else suffers. There is not a single shot in all of Sucker Punch where multiple things are not going on. Even in the most innocuous of scenes where someone is just talking—not even saying anything important, just talking — the camera will zoom in. It may even then cut to an overhead view looking down, before cutting back to the speaker and panning over them. Just leave the damn camera alone for one single second, Snyder!  It is not just distracting, it could almost be described as “twitchy.”

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