It’s especially appropriate to celebrate the fantasy-comedy Your Highness turning 15, because that might be the precise age of the viewers best calibrated to enjoy this critically reviled box-office flop. That wasn’t the demographic director David Gordon Green was serving for most of the 2000s: Instead, he made movies like All the Real Girls and Undertow, which built his reputation as an indie darling with a clear Terrence Malick influence. But in 2008, he took a sudden left turn into action-comedy with Pineapple Express, about a process server (Seth Rogen), his goofy pot dealer (James Franco), and the dealer’s supplier (Danny McBride). The film quickly became his biggest hit. So it felt natural that Green would reteam with Franco and McBride for another silly ’80s genre riff with pot-culture overtones. (Rogen sat out; presumably he was busy with his own boondoggle.)
