The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride| Dir |
Rob Reiner |
| Starring |
Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Andre the Giant, Robin Wright, Carol Kane, Peter Cook, Mel Smith, Peter Falk, Fred Savage |
| Released |
1987 |
| Length |
98 |
Quite straight-forward really, Fred Savage plays a young boys, who's apparently ill (personally I say he's faking it, but...) and gets a story read to him by his grandfather (Falk), the story is, of course, The Princess Bride. Andre the Giant (or the Giant as his friends call him, Patinkin, and Shawn play three guys who kidnap a princess, the strong one, the swordsman and the brains respectively. Oh and by the way, the princess (Buttercup, is her name) was set to marry a man she didn't love. Anyway, she was really in love, still, with a guy who died many years a go, Wesely, a servant. So they kidnap her, and are pursued by a masked man, and Buttercup's husband to be. The masked man dispatches the kidnappers one by one, and... and to say much more would give the story away.
It wasn't as great as I remembered it to be, the opening portion anyway. The chase of Buttercup by the masked man, was amusing and yet it sort of failed to hit the spot it had when I first saw it, though the gentlemanly acts of Patinkin were wonderful, and definitely the highlight. Later on the film really got in to it stride, with the 'Personally I think the Rodents of Unusual Size are just a myth' before a large furry moment collapses on top of Wesley was one of the funnier moments. But the real pièce de réstistance was Wesley's 'mostly dead' recovery, to which I could only bow to the genius of the moment.
The whole thing worked well together, fitting neatly together in a humorous-fairy-tale sort of way, as really desired.
Score 9/10
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