The settings and costumes were period perfect--it's too bad, really too bad that this movie suffered from such bad editing and terrible acting. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of separate stories full of humor, puns and sexual escapades. The movie manages to capture the humor and sexual escapades including lots of full frontal nudity for both sexes, and the "appearance" of numerous sexual acts (though it's not pornography) but there is nothing to hang the different stories together, and little effort to even make the individual tales have any kind of coherence (especially as they quote from the stories in Middle English. This was an admirable project but it fails in terms of any real cinematic value. It's a shame, I really wanted to like it, and as so many say, the settings and the costumes truly reflect the period, and were the best parts of the movie. The worst part is the acting--but if you've read the stories and are interested in the period, the movie is worth watching, and you may appreciate the humor--it does reflect the Middle Ages in all of it's rudeness and lust for life (if anything the movie tones it down for modern audiences)---just don't expect much more than that.
Review of The Canterbury Tales
