The digital effects - laden adaptation of 17th - century Italian fairy tales culled from Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone is a
sharp swerve away from the contemporary realism of Gomorrah (2008) and Reality (2012), but the film ultimately comes across
as an oleaginous CGI Euro -
pudding, with Garrone never quite sure exactly how high to crank the camp - o - meter at any given moment.