James Franco: Seen here on MTV's Total Request Live last fall, he's teaming up again with Pineapple Express's Danny McBride. Scott Gries/Getty Images Entertainment
by Linda Holmes
Maybe it's just me, but when I read that James Franco and Danny McBride -- who worked together in Pineapple Express -- were teaming up for a new movie called Your Highness, I thought, entirely seriously, "I do not need to see another movie from this same crowd of guys about how hilarious it is to watch them smoke pot for two hours. It wasn't that funny in Knocked Up, it went on too long in Pineapple Express, and I don't understand why they won't just let James Franco make a comedy in which he is not stoned."
It turns out, though, that this is the more time-worn interpretation of the words "Your Highness," and Franco and McBride will play "spoiled and arrogant princes." Or so the story claims. The movie will apparently be directed by David Gordon Green, their Pineapple director. It might actually be a good movie, even with everyone substance-free.
My mistake, guys. Carry on.
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