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Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales

Adventure · Comedy · Romance · 1978

On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching for the one woman that gets him sexually excited, Princess Sleeping Beauty.

Movie details

Fairy Tales

“Some Day Your Prince Will Come. A lusty, rowdy spoof of all your favorite fairy tales!”

1978 Adventure · Comedy · Romance 1h 22m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

5.0 / 10

887 votes

TMDB

6.1 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching for the one woman that gets him sexually excited, Princess Sleeping Beauty.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Fairy Tales?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Harry Hurwitz

Written by

Frank Ray Perilli · Franne Schacht

Don Sparks

Don Sparks

Prince

Sy Richardson

Sy Richardson

Sirus

Linnea Quigley

Linnea Quigley

Sleeping Beauty

Brenda Fogarty

Brenda Fogarty

Gussie Gander

R

Robert Staats

Doorman / Tommy Tucker

I

Irwin Corey

Dr. Eyes

Alexandra Day

Alexandra Day

Jill (as Lindsay Freeman)

Court is in session

Put Fairy Tales on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.