BillionDollarBlonde If you are looking for your typical fairy tale that is rated G and has a happy ending, then watch something else for now and save this movie for when you are in the mood for something dark, silly, fun, and amazing! I love this movie so much! The Lees twins have a new fan! I'm going to watch everything they are in! This movie has everything! Gore! Beauty! Wonderful props and costumes! Great special effects and makeup! I couldn't wait to see what would happen next! I would have watched it long before now if I had known about it! I have watched it 3 times since yesterday and I'm sure I will watch it many more times! I'm watching it again now! I would watch 1000 movies like this if I could find them! There should be more movies like this! I love everything about this movie! I never wanted it to end and after it was over I was desperate for more! My only complaint about this movie is that it ended! Everyone did a wonderful job! This movie is not for children. Even though I didn't understand a few things, I enjoyed every second of the ride! Sometimes it isn't where you would have gone, but you can appreciate where you were taken! Fabulous trip down a very dark and dirty path!

redsteve-91009 If your like me and value the time you spend to watch a movie then this one will not disappoint. It moves quickly and I didn't feel like I wasted 2 hours on a piece of crap.

nicktatta Any negative review of this movie must have been written by someone that is dense and lacks sense of humor. It would be hard to find any film ever that mingles the intense storyline and danger, with such a baseline self awareness of its own silliness. Watch it and then watch it again, like me :)

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.