Why It's Awful: A classic example of a movie that gave away its best jokes in the trailers, Your Highness takes the hilarious concept of a stoner comedy set in the fantasy realm and completely bungles it. Too often it substitutes a potty mouth for actual humour, and though hearing all this swearing amid a Lord of the Rings-type set-up is inherently quite funny, it's not enough to sustain a movie, or even really more than a single scene. So bad was Your Highness that James Franco even received a Razzie nomination for Worst Supporting Actor. The Remake: Easy: keep most of the profanity and crude humour (though not just for the sake of it), but make it smarter, including more send-ups of the fantasy genre as a whole. Cut the run-time from 102 minutes to around 85, and it's less likely that audiences will find themselves worn out by the time the credits roll. Also, perhaps hire the likes of Chris Miller and Phil Lord (21 & 22 Jump Street, The Lego Movie) to write the script, given their experience with meta-comedy.
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