Danny McBride

Ready for a good time? Great! That just might happen for you if you go see Sausage Party. But be warned. This movie is not a love-it or hate-it film; it’s just not. Sausage Party is a have fun or don’t-have fun film. But if you go into it with the right mindset, trust me, my friends. You will have fun. But heed this warning: if you can’t get past the profanity, you need to walk a...[Read More]

It feels so odd to have an Angry Birds film in 2016. It was an app, whose target audience was supposedly children, created in 2009 and, by 2012, it had sold 12 million copies. Throughout the years, there have been many variations of the app, but the main point of the game always dealt with angry birds and shooting those same birds at some sortof target. Now, ten years later, is the feature-length ...[Read More]

Dreamworks Entertainment has long relied on the Shrek brand as their flagship property, even as each sequel became less charming and more reliant on tiresome pop culture jokes, and eventually resulted in a fourth, final film that was stale, empty, hollow, and really just not all that funny even when it tried. In other words, I don’t know how the company that made Shrek Forever After was capable of...[Read More]

What do you get when you mingle the sophomoric, self-deprecating, and sometimes tasteless humor of Danny McBride with a 1980s sword & sorcery epic? Well, you sort of get an action adventure film, Your Highness, with a lot of R-rated material that is never quite as funny as it could or should be, while being more action-packed and epic than it has any right to be. Prince Fabious (James Franco) ...[Read More]