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The premise of the Ribald Tales is that a group of travellers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury would tell each other stories to keep themselves amused on their trip. This is pretty much spot on for the premise behind Chaucer's original. There are rather more travellers and rather more stories in Chaucer's 1387 version than the 6 or so shown in Hyapatia Lee''s 1985 adaptation but as the Ribald Tales clocked in at a fairly comfortable 90 minutes showing all 24 surviving stories plus various prologues, epilogues and conversations would have made for a rather long evening.

And Oh the joys of classic porn! A bit of bush. Real boobs. Women who aren't so scrawny that I feel like whipping out a pair of mallets and ripping off a quick xylophone solo on their ribs. Sex that doesn't go on for hours. There were maybe 8 scenes each under 10 minutes in this movie. Much better than the 3, 45 minute virgra inspired marathons you get these days. There was eye contact between the performers (in modern porn the only time the guy looks the girl in the eyes is to aim...). Cumshots that weren't in the face. Guys who are out of condition and hairy to provide inspiration for out of condition and hairy guys like me.

The music was medievalish but pretty cheesy. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on that though as there isn't much music from 1300 that survives today. Even the venerable Greensleeves was probably penned a few hundred years later in the reign of HenryVIII.

The sex was good and fitted in well with the story. I missed the final scene between the Knight and the Hostess. I was... sipping nectar from the bearded rose at the time but I'm told it was good.

All in all it was a good fun movie. We had a good time watching it.