None of this is very funny, and most of it is pretty ugly - the last half-hour or so is a paroxysm of bad special effects, amputated limbs and a severed sexual organ.
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
8 Apr 2011
rotten:
This film looks like it was a lot more fun to make than it is to watch.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
8 Apr 2011
rotten:
Sword and sorcery movies often resemble parodies of themselves even when they are intended to be taken seriously. And then there are genre spoofs like Your Highness that are meant to be funny and leave you stone-faced.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 Apr 2011
fresh:
With McBride and Franco trying on knowingly bad Brit accents and the entire cast clearly having a whale of a time, the impression is of the world's daftest, priciest, least self-serious end-of-the-pier panto.