Fellini’s Petronius adaptation starts off in a pretty bad place, with nearly an hour of theatrical, highly sexual tomfoolery, a rank explosion of his famous party scenes on a healthy dose of psychedelics. Then suddenly a plot forms - a gonzo picaresque adventure story through exotic, antique lands - and the shift from stifling, unfettered weirdness to open-air travel suits the film just fine. Most importantly it gives all the strangeness room to breathe, across a series of color-streaked sandpit sets that are just expansive enough to remind us of their artificiality. By the end Fellini has managed to turn a madcap series of disconnected scenarios into a cohesive pageant, ranging madly about in proto-Jodoworsky territory, providing a whacked-out corrective to the fussy decorum of most depictions of ancient societies. The obvious dubbing only heightens the disconnect, and the director’s quote about a ‘science fiction of the past’ sums this up perfectly.

Very strange, disjointed film which seemed to be trying to be outrageous purely to be outrageous. The sound didn't seem to quite fit the film; I'm not sure if that was intended or was a fault with the disc.

I love weird. Just not this kind of weird. This kind of weird gets a bit boring after about 45 minutes. Would probably be a lot better in a theater on a big screen.

Yea... um... weird

Fellini's films are like your weirdest dreams come true and spoken in a lovely Italian accent.

Fellini's warped, twisted poem of Ancient Rome (around the time of Nero) is a fantasy worth taking, but not as one's first endeavor into a Fellini film. The highly disgusting-yet-erotic bacchanal orgy that Fellini depicts throughout the film's 2 hour+ run time is a nightmare, but the best possible kind.

Was I offended by this movie? No. Unfortunately, I was also not entertained, amused, titillated, educated, intellectually stimulated, or artistically moved. The whole point of the movie, in 1969, was to shock. Unfortunately, it has not aged well and what was newly shocking then has become not that big a deal.

If the director's last name had been "Smith" instead of "Fellini" this film would never have received the praise it did. Unless this is on a list of movies you are trying to complete, skip it.

A baccahnale of colors and frenziness, but the film is also structurally messy and disturbingly graphic.

This movie is batshit cray. Pretty, though. But totally insane.

H εμμονή με το casting. Και το production design.

The Fellini's addition to the name is a nice touch as this Satyricon comes from the mouth of Petronious but it is shown throught the eyes of Fellini. Told in an episodic nature, like many of Fellini's other films, this satires are told with the director's very peculiar sense of humor and aesthetics. The direction is fantastic, Fellini makes all the right choices.