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Summary: The Princess Bride
Review: What a great love story. This video has been one of my favorites for a long time. It is one of the best fantasy movies ever produced. It has everything, comedy, action, drama and romance. What more could you ask for! It's a great pick me up. Anyone who sees it can't help but fall in love with it.
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Summary: Favorite movie of all tim
Review: I have watched this movie almost 20 times. Being someone who rarely watches a movie more than once, this is a rarity. The story is smart, the person who cast the characters is a genius, the action is fun, and the humor is wonderful. I cannot recommend this film too much.
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Summary: A True Action-Adventure Film with a light-hearted Twist!
Review: While the plot, acting and character development of the movie is excellent all around (praise for Billy Crystal's cameo as the cantankerous Miracle Max and Peter Faulk's turn as the equally cantankerous grandfather for Fred Savage), the truly beautiful marks of this film are the fencing displays and the friendship between Fezzik the Giant (played with perfect aplomb by late wrestling great Andre the Giant) and Inigo Montoya (a Mandy Potenkin performance that evokes sympathy and loving admiration for the sad, revenge-obsessed character). The fencing is excellent. Inigo's battles are excellently coreographed, and Cary Elwes fights magnificiently against him. The acrobatics, feints, parrays and witty banter are the equals of Errol Flynn's 1937 masterpiece The Adventures of Robin Hood. Fezzik and Inigo are inceperable and bring out the Big Guy/Little Guy style of comedy so lacking in today's industry. Their friendship is marked as strong and humorous and each relys on the other for help. Though Elwes is the breakaway hero, Patinkin and Andre elevate the film to another level, creating a buddy film subplot that rivals all other movies of its ilk.
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Summary: Fun to watch; a movie for the whole family
Review: So it is corny. Beautiful woman parts with lover, thinks he has died, gets pressed into a marriage of convenience and guess who showes up, a month before the wedding? Normally these stories are all the same, but this time it has been given a new impetus. A lot of action ( excellent fencing ), humor and even a bit of a plot, but most of all an excellent cast obviously enjoying themselves make this a pleausure to see. Don't watch the Princess Bride if you are looking for literature in the movies, but if you want to show the children a 'grown-up' movie, that you can even enjoy yourself, then this is an excellent choice
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Summary: A Grand Story of True Love and High Adventure
Review: A labour of love by one of the greatest film writers of our time, William Goldman (Marathon Man, Maverick, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). I love this film in its lightheartedness, romance, and humour. The only reason I give it a mere four stars out of five is because the book, which was abridged by William Goldman from S. Morgenstern's original, was vastly superior (and anyone who likes the movie ought to read it). As a movie alone, however, it is excellent for fans of comedy and swashbuckling fun.
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Summary: A sense of whimsy...
Review: Before submitting this review I read through the comments others had made. In my perusing of them I noted a common thread amongst those who rated it less than the full five: they all seemed to comment in one way or another on the realism or gravity of the film. Point blank: if you want a serious film don't bother. The Princess Bride is not about being serious nor will it delight anyone incapable of not taking themselves too seriously for a couple of hours. However, if there's even a single remotely lighthearted bone in your body The Princess Bride will enchant you. E-
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Summary: Humorous Fairy Tale
Review: The Princess Bride is the fairy tale story of Westley and Princess Buttercup. The story is actually presented as a grandfather, Peter Falk, telling the story to his sick grandson, Fred Savage. Cary Elwes stars as the dread pirate Roberts/Westley. Prince Humperdink has arranged a marriage to Buttercup and paid to have her kidnapped. He wants to use the kidnapping as a pretext to go to war with the neighboring kingdom. The dread pirate Roberts has in turn kidnapped Buttercup from the kidnappers, which is where the movie really gets interesting. This movie doesn't seek to make fun of the fairy tale story; but, it does seek to have a little fun with it. Rob Reiner tweaks the characters in such a way that all of them have a slight comedic edge to them that is missing from the straight fairy tale story in which there is usually only one character intended for comic relief. The Princess Bride will be passed down as one of the better movies made in the 1980s. It is a movie that the entire family can enjoy. It is not above the head of a child; and, it contains many laughs that will make any adult laugh. Rob Reiner has made some quality movies, but this one tops them all.
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Summary: What can I say about the greatest movie ever?
Review: Of course we all know what a great movie this is, one of the quoteable quoteable. Every line is bleathless, the action incredible, and the plot twists leave you hanging. One for the ages and heads the list for movies to own.
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Summary: Not to go with the crowd or anything, but YES!
Review: Simply put, Princess Bride is the kind of "children's film" that makes you wish to be young again. A killer cast, great scenery, wonderful plot, spellbinding music - everything combines to make the kind of accomplishment that too few people know about today. No amount of flashy effects and pop songs can make a good children's movie for adults. Only genuine wit, inventiveness, and thought can create a classic. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you . . . a classic.
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Summary: Does anyone not love this movie?
Review: If you haven't seen The Princess Bride, I am impressed by your resistance. Surely friends have urged you to see it after noticing your blank look when they quoted this amazing screenplay by William Golman? Okay, normally I agree that it is good to make your own decisions and not follow the herd, but in this case, just be a lemming. This film is a hysterical send-up of fairy tales and love stories, while at the same time being an incredible example of each. The costumes are wonderful, the acting superb (great casting!), the filming beautiful...any positive comment that can be applied to a film should be applied here. "Stop rhyming and I mean it! Anybody want a peanut?"
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