Ty Burr: In the grand tradition of following an Academy Award with the worst film of one’s career, Natalie Portman appears today in “Your Highness,’’ a radioactive turd disguised as a sword-and-sorcery comedy. She’s not alone: James Franco, this year’s Oscar-nominated Oscar host, hits another career speed bump. The true guilty parties, though, are David Gordon Green, a onetime director of delicate art-house dramas (2003’s “All the Real Girls’’) who wants to sell out but has no idea how, and Danny McBride, who co-wrote the script and stars as the oafish Prince Thadeous.
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