The Ribald Tales Of Canterbury -1985- -classic-

The animation is typical of 1980s adult features: low frame rates, reused backgrounds, and “limited animation” where only mouths and arms move while torsos remain static. The voice acting is a cast of New York stage actors performing under pseudonyms, delivering their lines with a campy, over-the-top enthusiasm that suggests they were either drunk or having the time of their lives.

The clerk, a bored philosophy dropout named Lenny, always told customers the same thing: “It’s not porn. I mean, it is porn, but it’s also… Shakespeare for perverts. With tits.” And for the faithful few who rented it, he wasn’t wrong. The Ribald Tales Of Canterbury -1985- -Classic-

In the original text, the Wife of Bath is a powerful, proto-feminist figure who argues that sovereignty in marriage belongs to women. In this adaptation, she is reduced to a one-note gag: she has had five husbands and wants a sixth by nightfall. Her tale—about a knight who must discover what women truly want—is resolved less with Arthurian wisdom and more with a montage of the knight romancing a hag through a series of increasingly bizarre acrobatic positions. The answer, according to the film, is not “sovereignty,” but “multiple orgasms.” It is reductive, juvenile, and oddly watchable. The animation is typical of 1980s adult features: