Clever and so much fun

Rating: 8/10 (5 October 2018)

Both a tribute to and parody of fairy tales, The Princess Bride is a rollicking adventure centered around a troubled romance.
The leads are attractive and likable, but it's the goofy supporting characters that are most memorable. The story is self-consciously absurd in a good way, the actors are excellent, the pace never flags, and the script is one of those that manages to come up with several lines that have planted themselves firmly in popular culture.
This is also very much a boys movie, by which I mean everyone in it is a boy except the titular princess, who is pleasant but kind of dumb. This makes sense; the frame is a man telling a story to his grandson, but I wish the princess had been a little smarter and had a smidge more personality.
Still, hugely entertaining fluff.