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If you liked 'Your Highness'...

posted 10 years ago by vampyrebat666
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...then you may also like "Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire", which is a six-episode miniseries co-produced between BBC Two and Comedy Central. I won't bother describing it since you can easily look up it's page here on IMDB, but I will say it was pretty funny.

The only other shows that combine Sword and Sorcery with raunchy humour that I can think of are both animated. One was a failed pilot for Adult Swim called "Korgoth of Barbaria" which was a parody of Conan, old cartoons like Thundarr the Barbarian, Dungeons and Dragons and pretty much everything else related to the Fantasy genre. Too bad it didn't become a series. More raunchy humour, and it used traditional animation techniques.

Also worth checking out is a weird Norwegian movie called Ronal the Barbarian. This one is all computer animated, and is pretty funny too. It looks like a Pixar movie, but is definitely not for kids.

If you have any more suggestions for similar movies, post them in this thread. I'd love to check them out.

[–] kmb147 10 years ago

If you liked "Your Highness" then you might want to check out anything Danny McBride does, especially in collaboration with David Gordon Green and/or Will Ferrell, especially "Eastbound & Down". Prince Thadeous is pretty much Kenny Powers transplanted to a fantasy medieval kingdom. Even the good older brother/screw-up younger brother dynamic is replicated. And Courtney is like a more self-aware version of Kenny's loveable idiot sidekick Stevie.

For something completely different, I recommend a really weird 2004 Canadian comedy I saw on Netflix just before I saw "Your Highness", called "Phil the Alien". The only sort-of household names in the cast are Joe Flaherty (of SCTV) who does the voice of the talking beaver, and Graham Greene who plays the bartender. Unlike Your Highness, it's really cheap-looking, with crummy production values and lots of amateurish acting. However it's also very entertaining and surprising, even shocking, occasionally. Some good, funny writing, with a fantastic soundtrack of a similarly high quality (but more indie) than the consistently excellent soundtrack of all seasons of Eastbound & Down.

If it's the sword and sorcery aspect of Your Highness that you enjoyed, I don't know the genre at all and can't recommend anything. But if you enjoyed the crude stupid vulgar humor, having Danny McBride in the cast of a movie is like a seal of approval. Unless his part is miniscule (like in "The Heartbreak Kid" remake), you will find something to enjoy.