Your Highness

James Franco in a comedy and Natalie Portman in something that requires her to crack a smile, two combinations i never dreamed of as they both star in this comedic fantasy. 

Your Highness is the tale of two brothers, dashing Fabious (James Franco) and his almost as dashing brother Thadeous (Danny McBride) who are princes in a realm of general peace. Trouble ensues in their untroublesome lives when Fabious' wife to be Belladonna (Zooey Doouchenal) gets kidnapped by the Evil Wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux)

As with  any quest there are a few key elements that are required.
A bad guy: Evil Wizard Leezar (who is really just a big baby with abandonment issues)
Bad guys plan: Rule the kingdom
A goal: Rescue Belladonna from Lezzar and save the kingdom
Some thing to help you defeat the bad guy; Sword of Unicorn
And an enemy of your enemy that you can call your friend, vengeful traveller Isabel (Natalie Portman)
Most importantly a reluctant hero: Prince Fabious

When you put it all together and you've got a one sided love interest between Fabious and Isabel, some scenes that look like they were hijacked from 300. A prophecy that states that to take over the kingdom your need to sleep with an untouched maiden in order to impregnate her with a dragon. Yeah. My thoughts exactly.

The movie itself uses such, obvious and immature jokes, the kind that you'd snigger at when your that prepubescent age but for some reason it has an opposite effect and even though you know its outrageous you find your self clutching your stomach with laughing spasms of pain. They managed to encorporate an opening for a possible sequel and I just hope its comedic value is of the highness order.

Anuvahood

Yo blad this is gonna be a BADMAN review init...

Sorry couldn't resist, but don't worry i wont assault your ears or your eyes by writing like this any longer, coincidentally this is how the majority of people where i reside speak. Well maybe not word for word but there's a definite over active use of pointless slang in my area so this made it easier for me to understand this other wise foreign film.

Adam Decon (who stars, directs, wrote and produced the film) plays rude boy Kenneth (K), who longs to be an MC, he's already produced a mix tape,-irnonically named Bring The Pain- but it's done nothing for his rep (reputation) as he's still seen as the biggest joke on the block.

Things take a turn for the gangsta when K quits his job at Laimsbury's and in order to help his parents - who seem to have no jobs of their own - get the bailiffs off their back he starts selling drugs (weed) around the block. This doesnt go smoothly for long, as nothing seems to for unlucky K and he soon finds himself in a showdown with Tyrone (Richie Campbell) who is seen to be the local thug but i deem nothing more than a grotesque over grown bully.
When in trouble though K can always count on his homies (Friends) to run away screaming before he does, but though he messes and tests his friendship with them, ultimately -After much persuasion or out of pure guilt- they come to his aid.

Elements of the move progress quickly and the small quips and play on words such as K working at 'Laimsbury' and  a Big Brother  joke or two based on season seven contestant Aisleyne is smilable at best. Personally I don't see this movie going anywhere special, they should just quit while they're ahead and not make Anuvaone.

TV: The Boondocks

I am the stone that the builder refused, I am the visual...

With only 3 series and 45 episodes at 19mins each, it didn't take me long to watch them all. At first, having watched the first few episodes i didn't find it all that entertaining. But when I'm giving shows a trial run I only really start judging by the third episode. I'm glad to say that by the third episode I was entertained by brothers Huey, Riley (aged 10 and 8) and their Grandad Robert Freeman.

The kids have been sent to live with their grandad, though as with most TV shows the reasoning to why is vague and fuzzy. The suburban town they now reside is a culture shock for the kids who were raised in the city of Chicago, Illinois. The difference in environment, culture and weather is the basis of the show which helps to highlight both the living ways and mentality of a range of extreme African Americans. The show over exaggerates certain situations to give it a comical element whilst leaving you thinking "That kinda happened to me last week, but I'd never go that far..."

We all know about sibling rivalry but these kids take it to the extreme, using both a mix of advance karate and just your bog standard weaponary on each other during a daily beat-down. Its both a little conically strange yet mesmerising all the same.

Though the kids are essentially babies, eight your old Riley considers himself a gangstar, often referring to himself as "Young Reezy" a play off of Lil Waynes Weezy and Chris Browns Breezy. Calling ladies Bitches and generally swearing like there's no tomorrow.

On the other hand his older brother Huey, made distintive by his massive and oddly shaped afro, can be seen as the level headed of the two, being into politics and black rights doing all he can to explain his theories and promote equality, though being only nine ears old, nobody takes him seriously, giving him a pat on the head and fawning over how adorable he is.

Grandad Robert Freeman is a grumpy but loveable character who is just trying to live out his retirement in style and won't let Huey and Riley get in the way of him going out with various women he met over the internet or from being seen as a valued neighbour in the small community of Woodcrest.

There have been a vast number of guest appearances, and spoof characters mostly in the Afro Caribbean sector, as to help promote the key themes of the show including R Kelly, Barack Obama, Xzibit and Snoop Dog to name but a few.

Okay i know this just sounds like a sociology lesson about the impact of been black in a white society but the show is defiantly uniquely awesome and can be enjoyed and understood by people of all races. Three Unicorns.

Started Late March