Very smart, and quite funny. The characters are perfectly played by all. Will have to read the Decameron now.

Wow. Where to begin...This is one of the most self-indulgently awful films ever made. The plot(?) and dialogue are laughably bad. Swearing, violent and promiscuous nuns? A drunk, incompetent priest and mother superior? Never saw that coming...The actors clearly have been basking in the smell of their own farts for too long to release a turd of this caliber.

Possibly the best thing about this movie is the fact that it tells many truths in an absurd way. It will utterly offend anyone who believes that nunneries were places of joy, godliness and manifest purity. In truth, most women in 1300 something were sent off to them because they were unwanted or poor or ugly or sick. Something for the church to grasp onto in its seeking for converts. Most nunneries were fair game to plunderers and invaders and were barely protected by the church, nuns being fair game for pillage, rape and misuse at the hands of men, including priests. Sadly, women then had little choice and certainly no careers! So, where does this film come into the picture? In silly little ways it tells us of the inhumanities of the day, the way people found to escape their horrors and has dressed it up as a farce and a comedy and I will say that despite its silliness, I had a lot of fun watching this attempt at sleight of hand.

It's 1347 Garfagnana in central Italy. Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly) runs a convent. Sister Marea (Molly Shannon) is the senior nun. Sister Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza) is volatile. Sister Ginevra (Kate Micucci) is a follower with secrets. Sister Alessandra (Alison Brie) wants to leave for married life despite her father. In his drunken state, Tommasso loses the nuns' embroidery on his way to the market. Massetto (Dave Franco) assists him and in return, he takes in Massetto who is on the run from his vengeful master. Massetto pretends to be deaf mute. Fernanda's childhood friend Marta (Jemima Kirke) arrives and chaos ensues.This is a strange little movie. It's a spoof of sorts but it's also a little serious. Too often, the movie goes into silly which is not silly enough. This probably works better as a dark comedy. When Fred Armisen arrives, the movie falls completely into SNL skit territories. That role needs a serious character actor. This movie struggles between an SNL spoof and a serious dark comedy. It fails to pick a side and clunks along both tracks.