Simply a joy

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 1999)

As an avid movie fan who admires a huge variety of films for myriad reasons, I still count "The Princess Bride" among my personal favorites. I loved it when I first saw it as a kid, and I love it now. Moreover, among my friends, who have widely divergent tastes in films from mine and from each other, this is the only film whose dialogue we can repeat in progress throughout. (I don't believe I have seen this movie in at least five years when no one consistently quoted lines during the movie.) Swashbuckling swordplay, cleverly self-parodic dialogue, and an overall sweetness of character that even I can't snicker at -- this is a damn great movie.
To repeat: simply a joy.