Even Real-Life Warlocks Are Deeply Offended By Your Highness
If you paid $12 to see Your Highness this weekend, there is a good chance that you left feeling a little offended that legitimate talents like Danny McBride, James Franco and Natalie Portman would swindle you out of an enjoyable movie-going experience. As emotionally bankrupt as you may have felt after seeing Zooey Deschanel try to fit a severed minotaur appendage in her mouth though, you probably aren't organizing a boycott of the David Gordon Green medieval stoner comedy like a few real-life warlocks are. So what exactly was it about the film that left these male witches feeling so insulted?
It was the movie's negative portrayal of warlocks, of course. In Your Highness, the movie's villain is an evil warlock named Leezar (Justin Theroux, pictured above) who wants to rape a wide-eyed virgin (Zooey Deschanel) and impregnate her with a dragon. (Because raping her would not be enough.)
Christian Day, a Salem-based warlock and witchcraft shop owner called the film an "assault on taste" (Movieline critic Michelle Orange agrees with this statement) and complained that Hollywood continues to shed negative light on warlocks and witches when they're "the good guys and gals."
"I hope people boycott this movie and movies like it so that Hollywood is inspired to release more positive films about Witches and Warlocks," Day declared earlier today to reporters.
Fortunately for warlocks worldwide, Your Highness's sad sixth place finish at the box office last weekend means that most people are already boycotting the film.
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It's a COMEDY + it's a FILM. But yeah i'm a pretty sure that's what they we're hoping for. Let's make Witches and Warlocks look bad. If you are wiling to accept movies that make you look good, be willing to have one's that make you look bad. Deal with it and stop whining so much.
@Grates - Word.
What's wrong with you people?? I saw it today and paid $6.50. I laughed from beginning to end and really got my moneys worth!
Hmm, I saw it today as well, and it might be the worst thing I've seen in ages. Adorable mechanical bird notwithstanding, of course.
Gawd i paid $4 to see it and have seen it twice in the last week or so and laughed the whole time, its supposed to be funny people! Zooeys got a great voice and is funny but not in it much and everyone else in the movie is so funny too. Get a life and just enjoy a goofy movie.
Saw it. Loved it. Funny as hell. If you thought it sucked then you don't have a sense of humor or have never smoked a dube before. Laughed out loud like everyone else in the theater. Had me laughing days later while getting dental work done.
Yeah, because the 8 Harry Potter movies don't paint warlocks in a good light either. Hollywood hates warlocks!!!
...these people don't get out much, do they...?