So much average

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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.

Great visually but the three stories blow. Fairy tales have a lesson to teach and these all seem to be lacking full development. Over an hour of my time wasted and I will never get it back. Watch something else. This makes me question the validity of user reviews on imdb. Never trust long winded reviews by film critic wanna bee's from now on. I will trust the regular folks reviews.

This is a movie nobody asked for, and nobody should watch. If you watch it though... fast forwarding and watch parts that look interesting to you. That'd be the only way to get enjoyment out of it. There's no real story! Fast forward and make your own up... I garentee it'd be better.

"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.