This is simply the worst movie directed by the great Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini.
It is even worse than the unpleasant and pretentious "Salo", being boring, dull and poorly made, with many painfully unfunny fart jokes that doesn't seem to be so different than the ones that appear in many bad comedies from the recent years. Personally, I think that it's a shame that the same director of great cinematic masterpieces as "Mamma Roma" "Accattone" and "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" ended his career as director doing movies like this.
Just like the other two films from "the Trilogy of Life" (The Decameron and Arabian Nights) directed by Pasolini, this movie has almost nothing to do with the literary source in which it was inspired, being terrible as an adaptation, but even worse as a completely independent movie, lacking of any artistic or entertainment value. This movie is a big waste of time from beginning to end. It's dumb, it's unfunny, it's not enjoyable at all, and it's not interesting from any kind of perspective.
"The Canterbury Tales" is one of the most disappointing movies that I've seen in my entire life. This film doesn't any justice to the book in which it is (supposedly) inspired.
It is even worse than the unpleasant and pretentious "Salo", being boring, dull and poorly made, with many painfully unfunny fart jokes that doesn't seem to be so different than the ones that appear in many bad comedies from the recent years. Personally, I think that it's a shame that the same director of great cinematic masterpieces as "Mamma Roma" "Accattone" and "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" ended his career as director doing movies like this.
Just like the other two films from "the Trilogy of Life" (The Decameron and Arabian Nights) directed by Pasolini, this movie has almost nothing to do with the literary source in which it was inspired, being terrible as an adaptation, but even worse as a completely independent movie, lacking of any artistic or entertainment value. This movie is a big waste of time from beginning to end. It's dumb, it's unfunny, it's not enjoyable at all, and it's not interesting from any kind of perspective.
"The Canterbury Tales" is one of the most disappointing movies that I've seen in my entire life. This film doesn't any justice to the book in which it is (supposedly) inspired.