Moreover, it is important to know the historian's opinion because the elements he criticized were not meant to be there by Chaucer himself, who would be surprised by their presence in it. For example a historically accurate movie is the Sorceress by Pam Berger. The story doesn't even remotely resemble the plot of the movie. Furthermore, there is a reason that movies put on the History Channel don't make it into the general movie theatres. Movie-makers make movies.
Historians describe history.
These are exceptions, not the rule. I think the BIG clue that this movie wasn't to be considered AT ALL historical came when the crowd was chanting Queen's song, We Will Rock You. That was within the first 8 minutes of the movie. There was also the rock music played at the post-competition ball. I'm inclined to believe the latter.