Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

MBunge If the folks who made A Knight's Tale all impregnated a sibling and the genetically defective results of those unions all grew up to make an anachronistic, Renaissance Italy sex comedy, it would look an awful lot like Virgin Territory. There's some quality nudity here but an almost total lack of laughs and a host of poor storytelling choices.Lorenzo (Hayden Christiansen) is a young gambler in love with the beautiful Pampinea (Mischa Barton) and on the run from the rich and menacing Gerbino (Tim Roth). Pampinea is also lusted after by Gerbino, even though she's promised in marriage to a Russian count (Matthew Rhys). Lorenzo has to flee Florence to escape Gerbino and his men. Pampinea, some of her friends and a painter impersonating a priest (Craig Parkinson) also decide to leave town, partly because of Gerbino and partly because of the plague.Lorenzo and Pampinea end up in a convent full of sex-crazed nuns while her friends wind up waylaid by some bandits. After some generalized ribaldry, including a police-style penis line up, everybody winds up at a country villa where Gerbino tries to force Pampinea to marry him while Lorenzo and the Russian count try to stop it. The bad guy falls down a well and everybody else locks lips with the sex partner of their dreams.I think I've seen enough film to make a plea. For the love of Zeus, stop with all the voice over narration! It's fairly rare in big budget Hollywood fare, but narration has overrun indy flicks like out of control kudzu. It's one of the laziest crutches filmmakers lean on and you find it over and over and over again in independent cinema. Whether it's used as a shortcut for exposition, characterization and plot mechanics or as a feeble attempt at depth and profundity that doesn't exist in the rest of a script, narration has become so common in a certain class of filmmaking that it's almost become a big, fat warning sign. If you're watching a movie and you hear a narrator within the first 30 seconds, you're probably better off bailing on the film right then and there.That's what I should have done when the voice over from the fake priest started in Virgin Territory. It's intrusive, it takes the audience's attention and emotional investment away from the main characters and, worst of all, the narration is intentionally written to be the most overtly funny thing in the movie. The fake priest is given more deliberately humorous things to say in his narration than all the other characters' dialog put together. The narration isn't all that funny but even if it were, it would still be a mistake to do it that way.The rest of Virgin Territory lived down to that early warning sign. Just as an example, a huge portion of the film's middle is given over to how one of Pampinea's friends is a bitchy cocktease who alternately berates and frustrates her virgin boyfriend. Pampinea, Lorenzo, Gerbino and the Russian count are just forgotten about, and then the cocktease and her boyfriend are forgotten about so a second friend of Pampinea can be brought to the fore and made the second most important female character in the story.And I have to bring up the final sword fight between Lorenzo and Garbino because it's one of the worst structured battles in the history of fiction. First, the movie sets it up that Lorenzo and Garbino will fight and if Garbino wins, he'll then have to fight the Russian count. So the bad guy is facing an unfair challenge to begin with. Then Garbino has to battle Lorenzo on the edge of a deep well after it's been established that Garbino is afraid of heights, putting him at an additional disadvantage. Even if Garbino were the most vile person imaginable, having the deck stacked so clearly against him destroys the good vs. evil dynamic of the climax.Virgin Territory does feature the impressive physique of Kate Groombridge and a few other actresses take their tops off. There's nothing else of value here.

PDXozoner This turkey has more breasts than Butterball in the third week of November.In one of the other reviews, the reviewer suggests that you could be forgiven if, at first, you think this is nothing but a soft-core porno pic... I would suggest that you're deeply mistaken if, by the end, you think it's anything else. And worse yet, it has fewer breasts and even fewer laughs (intentional or otherwise) than Bob Guccione's "Caligula," with which it shares a certain sensibility.Think of it as "The Decameron" written and directed by Benny Hill, post mortem.

giovanni cavina Of course this movie will never win an Oscar, but that is not what it aims for. It aims to entertain the audience, with a certain amount of nudity and sexual innuendo, and it does that quite well I've to say. Mischa Barton and Hayden Christensen act their roles quite well, just like Tim Roth, and basically I can say that if you want a night of light entertainment, this movie can provide that.It is loosely based on the Decameron by Boccaccio, and if I have to find a problem with the movie, it is the Italian title for it, because really, the references to the Decameron are not so many, but at the same time, the situation of a group of young people leaving Florence for the plague is the same, so I guess it could be accepted. However, it's all the "adventures" these people go through once they leave the town that make the movie somewhat interesting and amusing.I know I'll be watching it again in the future.

joemamaohio Back in the olden days, somewhere in Europe, renegade bad boy Lorenzo (Hayden Christensen) is on the run from Gerbino (Tim Roth), who wants him dead after a game Lorenzo won. Meanwhile, rich Pampinea (Mischa Barton) is set to be married to some foreign guy, but Gerbino wants her for himself, and Lorenzo has a little thing for her too perhaps.Lorenzo ends up in a convent, pretending he's deaf and dumb so the nuns will all have sex with him for some reason, then Pampinea, on the run, ends up at the convent too, and falls for him even more.Basically all this movie is is a very undermined porno. Nuns having sex with Lorenzo all the time doesn't really convey what nuns really do. And just the overall storyline is ridiculous. It's like a lame version of "Casanova", without the superb acting abilities of Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller, and instead the leads go to Hayden "I killed Darth Vader for every true 'Star Wars' fan" Christensen and Misha "I should've never quit 'The O.C.'" Barton. Run far away from this film, or find a place to bury it so no one will ever find it.