# Your Highness with James Franco and Natalie Portman **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035 "2010-11-17T23:17:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/1 "2010-11-17T23:17:32Z")
Just saw this trailer, and there were a few things that made me laugh. And Natalie Portman in a thong bikini is _never_ a bad thing. The humor is aimed squarely at the immature guy demographic, and all the best bits are probably in the trailer, but i think i might check this out. > **[Your Highness Restricted Trailer - IGN](https://www.ign.com/videos/your-highness-restricted-trailer?show=HD)** > > IGN has your exclusive first look at the fantasy tinged, R-rated comedy Your Highness, starring Danny McBride and James Franco. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/2 "2010-11-17T23:31:06Z")
Holy shit. You didn’t even mention that it has Danny McBride and Zooey Deschanel! This looks fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/3 "2010-11-17T23:35:44Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > The humor is aimed squarely at the immature guy demographic I am seriously disappointed at how many comedy movies are doing this now. Crude and disgusting is not funny to me, now I’m old and crusty, so I miss out on the funny. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/4 "2010-11-17T23:38:49Z")
I love Danny McBride, James Franco (well, some of the time, and no writing class fiction, thanks). But this just looks like a lot of gay jokes and f-bomb punchlines. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/5 "2010-11-17T23:41:40Z")
please don’t suck…please don’t suck…please don’t suck…please don’t suck…please don’t suck…please don’t suck… ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/6 "2010-11-18T00:11:42Z")
Franco has the most eccentric career choices in history. He’ll do arthouse, soap opera (literally, a TV soap opera), stoner comedy, MILK, now this. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn his next project is Brecht’s GALILEO or CADDYSHACK 3D. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/7 "2010-11-18T00:14:48Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/8 "2010-11-18T00:20:48Z")
What an astonishing cross between awesome and utterly retarded. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/9 "2010-11-18T00:42:52Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I am seriously disappointed at how many comedy movies are doing this now. Crude and disgusting is not funny to me, now I’m old and crusty, so I miss out on the funny. You’re not trying hard enough. Youth is fleeting, but you can be immature _forever_! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/10 "2010-11-18T01:28:47Z")
Natalie _and_ Zooey!??! :cue animated swoon smiley we don’t have: On a slightly more sober note, this might end up making a lot of Bottom Ten lists by the end of the year in question. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/11 "2010-11-18T01:53:32Z")
I`m afraid I have to agree with **GuanoLad** here. Lots of fucks and mother fuckers does not a comedy make. There is potential for it to be enjoyable but the trailer makes it a 50/50 proposition. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/12 "2010-11-18T03:16:24Z")
Here’s a nerdy piece of trivia. There’s a brief shot of a castle at the beginning of the trailer. I recognised it immediately as [Alnwick Castle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alnwick_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_107711.jpg), aka _The Black Adder’s_ castle from the first series. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/13 "2010-11-18T08:33:18Z")
I am so there Declan ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/14 "2010-11-18T08:48:42Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Franco has the most eccentric career choices in history. He’ll do arthouse, soap opera (literally, a TV soap opera), stoner comedy, MILK, now this. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn his next project is Brecht’s GALILEO or CADDYSHACK 3D. I would say this absolutely qualifies as stoner comedy. At least that’s the intended audience. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/15 "2010-11-18T12:24:09Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Lots of fucks and mother fuckers does not a comedy make. No, but lots of fucks in a medieval setting with dragons and princesses sure could. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/16 "2010-11-18T12:36:08Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > What an astonishing cross between awesome and utterly retarded. Exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/17 "2010-11-18T12:53:52Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > What an astonishing cross between awesome and utterly retarded. That is really the only way to describe this. ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/18 "2010-11-18T13:33:52Z")
I am totally going to see this, and it is totally going to suck. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/19 "2010-11-18T14:16:18Z")
This was directed by David Gordon Green, who I think has made a lot of terrific films (_George Washington, All the Real Girls, Pineapple Express_), so while I’m not expecting it to be more than him in Mel Brooks-mode, I still will definitely be there. ---
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035/20 "2010-11-18T14:16:44Z")
Best jokes are in the trailer, right? “Triangle face scares me.” Oh, man, that was lame-o :eek: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-highness-with-james-franco-and-natalie-portman/561035.md?page=2)