If you like Eastbound and Down, see it.
It gets it right in terms of violence in comedy. When violence starts, all of the actors play it straight and treat the situation seriously. Cop Out is probably the most recent example of a comedy that fell apart for that simple reason. If they had just played it straight when the bullets started flying, if Tracy Morgan just hadn't kept doing the bumbling clod schtick yet somehow killing all of the bad guys, things wouldn't have felt so contrived and distractingly fake. I know, willful suspension of disbelief and all that, but you need to help me out a little.
Your Highness is definitely worth a rental. I enjoyed seeing it in the theater because I was with a great audience (and I get cheap tickets), and a good audience always helps boost the experience. There wasn't enough spectacle to sway occasional theater-goers though. The sound and effects were certainly good for a comedy, but weren't necessary. All of the best stuff was in the dialog and characters reactions anyway.
Also, I loved that Danny McBride and James Franco had absolutely no problem doing consistently terrible English accents throughout. There were some English actors too (Damien Lewis -- who many of you would recognize as Dick Winters from Band of Brothers), which only underscored how silly McBride and Franco were being. Thoroughly enjoyable, but Eastbound and Down is still the masterpiece work to come from McBride, and at least we have this to hold us over until next season starts.
