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Your Highness Reviews

Post author:Dazza
Post published:April 6, 2011

Strap yourselves in because this is going to be a bumpy ride.

– The Playlist were big fans and gave the film a B+ rating.

Portman is rather wickedly funny by just playing things seriously straight and it’s amusing to see two Academy Award nominees (Franco and Portman, who is actually a winner) relishing the excuse to play in such a wantonly absurd film.

– Totalfilm put up a mixed 3 star review.

Where Your Highness scores is in the casting. Portman kicks butt as Isabel, a deadly archer they meet along the way; Franco is fab as the stupidly brave sibling and Theroux (the cuckolded director in Mulholland Drive) outshines them all behind his ghastly prosthetic teeth.

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Tidbits

Post author:Dazza
Post published:April 6, 2011

Quite an eclectic batch of mini news items today. - Some of the investors in Hesher are bringing forth a lawsuit, as they claim that they were screwed over by…

Dior Now With Voice

Post author:Dazza
Post published:April 5, 2011

We've already seen that lovely Miss Dior Cherie behind the scenes video, but now there's a new version that has the same video but with Natalie, in voice over, giving…

Time Poll

Post author:Dazza
Post published:April 5, 2011

You can vote for Natalie on Time Magazine's annual 100 most influential people list, although if memory serves, voting numbers is not the only factor that they use. In any…

Your Highness Ouch

Post author:Dazza
Post published:April 5, 2011

The first (I think) professional review for Your Highness has arrived, and The Hollywood Reporter didn't just dislike it, they hated it. I didn't expect this type of film would…

First new Nat-sighting of the month

Post author:Rachel
Post published:April 4, 2011

Natalie was spotted back home and out running errands in downtown Manhattan this past weekend following her trip to Philly with Benjamin Millepied. Candids courtesy of Mail Online.

Your Highness Videos

Post author:Dazza
Post published:April 4, 2011

Trailer Addict has 20 000 video's related to Your Highness, from TV spots to interviews and even a few scenes from the film. I suggest, if you don't mind being…

Your Highness Articles

Post author:Dazza
Post published:April 4, 2011

Awise found a couple nice articles about Your Highness.

The New York Times article reveals that the budget was $50 million (might be a challenge to reach that domestically) and that Green and McBride first came up with the idea when they filmed indie (tear your heart of your chest) drama, All The Real Girls, in 2003.

“He always plays such jerks,” Ms. Portman said. “I was like, ‘Oh God, what’s it going to be like to work with this guy?’ But he’s so incredibly lovely.”

She said she was grateful for a role that was athletic as well as comic, allowing her to wield fearsome weapons and foul language traditionally reserved for male characters.

“I don’t know how I got this image of being this strait-laced girl,” she said.

As for a scene in which Ms. Portman conspicuously strips down to a thong bikini before bathing in a lake, she said, “Now being heavily pregnant, I’m glad it’s captured on film somewhere that I wasn’t always this size.”

Even more interesting comments after the jump.

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