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Site FAQs » Your Highness The Adjustment Bureau Arthur Contact us » BY ROGER EBERT / April 6, 2011 Atlas Shrugged The Bang Bang Club Email the Movie "Your Highness" is a Battle: Los Angeles Answer Man » juvenile excrescence that cast & credits Cedar Rapids feels like the work of 11- Certifiably Jonathan year-old boys in love with Certified Copy on sale now dungeons, dragons, warrior Thadeous Danny McBride Cold Weather women, pot, boobs and Fabious James Franco The Conspirator four-letter words. One of Isabel Natalie Portman Desert Flower the heroes even wears the Julie Toby Jones Drive Angry 3D penis of a minotaur on a Belladonna Zooey Deschanel The Eagle string around his neck. I Even the Rain hate it when that happens. The Greatest Movie Ever Sold presents a film Hall Pass directed by . That this is the work of Hanna David Gordon Green Written by Danny McBride and Ben Hidden Love beggars the imagination. Best. Running time: 102 minutes. 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Natalie Portman is the Xena clone, a fierce warrior, laid on for anime Shoah (12/29) fans who seem to regard such characters as masturbatory fantasies. Santa Sangre (1/25) She too has no personality, although she has more dialogue, all of it Senso (2/22) expressing cliches of steely determination. Heart of Glass (3/23) Buy now» more great movies on dvd » Franco is likable. Likable? That's not good enough for a hero. McBride's character is pathetic, not in a good way. Rasmus Hardiker plays Courtney, the king's aide, who comes along on the quest so he can basically stand there and look at stuff. Oh, what a sad movie this is. David Gordon Green has made great films. He should remind himself of that.

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