"Have fun stormin' the castle!"

Rating: Null/10 (27 January 2005)

Amusing fantasy farce from Rob Reiner, based on the William Goldman novel (or is it William Golding? I keep forgetting...) When little Fred Savage falls ill, his grandpa Peter Falk comes to read him the tongue-in-cheek story of "The Princess Bride".
A haughty, beautiful blonde farm girl named Buttercup (Robin Wright Penn) eventually falls in love with her stable boy Westley (Cary Elwes), but he has no money for a marriage so he heads out to sea to find his fortune. His ship is attacked by the Dread Pirate Roberts and he is believed dead. Years later, a stoic, emotionally traumatized Buttercup is a princess about to be wed to the evil prince Humperdink (Chris Sarandon). In an evil plot to stir up a war, she is kidnapped by three lugs, the pompous Vizzini, the jaunty Spaniard swordsman Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) and the gentle giant Fezzik (the late Andre the Giant), only to be rescued by a man in black who looks like Zorro who turns out to be the Dread Pirate Roberts who just turns out to be... Westley! But our hero has his luck cut out for him, climbing the Cliffs of Insanity, dueling, wrestling, falling down ravines, facing the dangers of the Fire Swamp and having to survive death so that True Love can conquer all.
Like I said, very funny and enchanting with well tuned performances from the jaunty cast. Ah what a beauty Robin Wright Penn was in this film...