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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