Although parts of this seven-episode romp are admittedly too crude to be funny, with Woody Allen in his zaniest mood, you know you're in for a good few laughs. The best of the stories are the first, second and last, the opener being about a court jester (Woody) who tries to seduce the Queen (Lynn Redgrave) by spinning such 11th-century lines as 'Lady, I hast the hots for thee' and slipping an aphrodisiac in her bedtime drink. Alas, the poor fool gets his hand stuck in the Queen's chastity belt, which enables Mr Allen to go around for the rest of the scene with his hand clasped to Miss Redgrave's bottom (yes, he did write the script). Best line, by the jester about the prowess of the King (Anthony Quayle): 'He's the only man I know who can swim the moat lengthwise.' In the second yarn, Gene Wilder is just superb as a doctor who falls in love with a sheep, while the last story (in which Burt Reynolds joins Woody) imagines parts of the male body to be populated by little men, and studies their reactions as they prepare for making love. For most of the way, an enjoyably rude jape.

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