Silly Fun

Rating: 7/10 (2 September 2007)

An evil prince wants to make the fair Buttercup his bride but her heart belongs to another. This fun adventure film features swashbuckling heroes, cowardly villains, a magician who sounds like a Jewish stand-up comic, and Rodents of Unsual Size. Wright is lovely if rather wooden in the title role. Elwes is appropriately dashing as the hero. The best performance is given by Patinkin as a vengeful man bent on finding the six-fingered man who killed his father. It's all a story told by Falk to grandson Savage and their scenes are quite amusing. It is a very simple and silly story that is enjoyable to watch but hardly the neo-classic some have made it out to be.