I badly wanted to like this. The trailer was tempting, with some hopeful gags.
And there was stuff in it I liked - I liked the look of it, and the special effects were fine. The story was OK and the idea was good.
And then we come to what I didn't like.
One, the F word is not a joke in and of itself. Sometimes it can fuel a joke: here, it mostly didn't.
Two, there seems to be a belief that if you make your central character a loud mouthed, ignorant, offensive oaf, that is funny. Well, Danny McBride in Your Highness joins Jonah Hill in Superbad and Rob Corddry in Hot Tub Time Machine as characters whose company I disliked so resoundingly that I didn't want to spend time with them. To be fair, there were others in the cinema who laughed at what I didn't.
Zooey Deschanel was wasted.
Natalie Portman's rear end was cute.
James Franco affected some weird sibilant speech impediment for reasons which escaped me.
This should have been much better and the fact that it wasn't can only be attributed to McBride, whose idea of comedy (in terms of writing and performing) clearly doesn't coincide with mine.
And there was stuff in it I liked - I liked the look of it, and the special effects were fine. The story was OK and the idea was good.
And then we come to what I didn't like.
One, the F word is not a joke in and of itself. Sometimes it can fuel a joke: here, it mostly didn't.
Two, there seems to be a belief that if you make your central character a loud mouthed, ignorant, offensive oaf, that is funny. Well, Danny McBride in Your Highness joins Jonah Hill in Superbad and Rob Corddry in Hot Tub Time Machine as characters whose company I disliked so resoundingly that I didn't want to spend time with them. To be fair, there were others in the cinema who laughed at what I didn't.
Zooey Deschanel was wasted.
Natalie Portman's rear end was cute.
James Franco affected some weird sibilant speech impediment for reasons which escaped me.
This should have been much better and the fact that it wasn't can only be attributed to McBride, whose idea of comedy (in terms of writing and performing) clearly doesn't coincide with mine.