WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

djensen-52443 Well filmed, in fact, spectacular at times, and for the most part very well acted, but one ponders a single question at the finish, WTF? Make that two questions: why was this film made? If there was a point, it must reside on the top of my head.

cahidi Exactly what the headline told you! What the eff did I just watch?! I lost two hours of my life for a piece of garbage! I didn't sign up for this pile of crap! I thought this movie is a tale of exotic and exhilarating adventures. Ones with princesses, dragons, and valiant knights in shining armor. Instead I got a heartless wife who'd let her own husband died just to have a child that's not exactly her own. A sex maniac of a king who made out with a shriveled granny. And a father who loved a flea more than his own daughter. JESUS! What kind of crap is this?!The three separate stories aren't connected at all. The intertwined ending was forced by the director or the screen writer, which made me think that this story is made by a teenager full of raging hormones. There is no moral lesson left to salvage from this horrible nightmares. Unless the depressing truth of our everyday lives which we already know : we have to seize our own destiny and make our own path, arrogance will be our downfall, and somethings are inevitable.I've lost more than two hours of life just to find out what a complete and utter waste of time this movie is! Maybe the blame lies with my very own self, wishing for a beautiful fantasy in a dreadful and bland world. I only gave four stars because the acting quality of the actors and actresses. If the acting were sucked, I would've given 2 stars instead. A word of advice : DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE!

Allaboutfall I am just at a loss as to the purpose of the three entwined story plots, much less the movie as a whole. This movie is simply bizarre, awkward, and difficult to watch. I really wouldn't recommend this movie unless you are bored, and want nightmares about medieval barbarities... a Brothers Grimm this movie is not.

Lee Eisenberg "Il racconto dei racconti" ("Tale of Tales" in English) is an adaptation of Giambattista Basile's works focusing on how desire and obsession lead to tragic outcomes. In one, a queen desires a child, so the king slaughters a sea monster and she eats the heart, but she focuses more on making the prince follow her orders than on letting him have a friendship. In another, a king spends all his time raising a flea, ignoring his daughter until he decides to marry her off. In the last one, a king is infatuated with a woman until he finds out that she's old, but then she puts on a facade.If you've spent your life knowing only the sanitized versions of fairy tales, then Matteo Garrone's movie will be a real shock: no singing, no cute animals (but there are some scary ones), and no happily ever after. The dialogue is more concentrated in certain spots, allowing the action to be the main focus elsewhere. There's still a lot in the way of aesthetics - palaces, costumes, hairdos - but this is truly a dark fantasy. After all, it's not every movie in which a queen eats a sea monster's heart (with blood smeared all over her face). Not a masterpiece, but still an interesting look at fairy tales, much the way that "Into the Woods" is. I recommend it. A real feather in the cap of Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones, Vincent Cassel and Shirley Henderson.