Your Highness

When the funniest moments in a movie involve the recurrence of a severed appendage, you have a dire comedy indeed.

Unfortunately, I have a very hit-and-miss record with stoner movies.  I love Pineapple Express, Half Baked and Grandma's Boy, but I hate the crap out of Dazed and Confused, Dude Where's My Car, and most every movie that's played after 11 p.m. on USA.  (They still do that, right?  Or is it nothing but reruns of Psych and Burn Notice?)
Maybe it's true.  Maybe you really have to be Your 'High'ness to truly love a movie like this.  Since I am active duty and intend to stay that way, I will not be running that little experiment.  I can only say that when you have a comedy that relies almost completely on swearing, gay panic and dick jokes to get a laugh, then you obviously never got past the planning stage of your film.
I really can't get too deep into the plot without ruining the entire film, since the plot is only two or three sentences long.  Suffice it to say that I was hoping for a lot more of Zooey Deschanel and Natalie Portman, and a lot less of sexless naked men, penises, rapists and drawings of penises.
The biggest shame is the wasted cast.  Zooey Deschanel is perfectly cast as a sweet, adorable ditz, but she ends up having nothing to do for most of the film.  Miss Portman gets to show off a bit of her toning and acts the closest to a straight man as this film ha,s but comes in far too late to be much more than a sword-wielding love interest.  I've been a fan of James Franco for awhile, and while I have not seen Eastbound and Down, I like what little of Danny McBride I have encountered.
That makes it even worse when I ask this:  How the hell were you guys not funny?  Were you TOO high during filming?

Like I said earlier, I'm not a big fan of stoner flicks, but I won't risk the outcry that would arise if I placed this above Dazed and Confused, which I have always taken a lot of flak for not liking.  So, Your Highness is STILL better than the Dungeons and Dragons movie where a Wayans brother played a thief, but worse (both in humor and pacing) than the SNL digital short of Natalie Portman being crazy.