WARNING: You may choke on the sappy-ness.

Rating: 5/10 (14 September 2018)

The Princess Bride is widely regarded as a classic fantasy-romance semi-spoof movie for children of all ages. I started off with that description because I supposedly saw this movie. But it's very strange: the movie I saw was a crappy, predictable, sappy princess movie without a single subversive element to it, held together one or two fun characters and quotable lines.
I'll get right to it: this is really just every crappy 80s fantasy movie, full of hammy acting and dialogue, that everyone treats like a classic. It's Space Jam for children of the late 70s/early 80s. It doesn't have the imagination or production value of something like Labyrinth or The Neverending Story. And good god...have I mentioned how goddamn sappy this film is?
It's doesn't even work on the level of being a "spoof". It's a semi-spoof, i.e. the exact same as the material it's spoofing, except with more laughing involved. It doesn't try to piss-take or subvert your expectations.
There are one or two characters and lines that you'll remember, but on the whole this movie is one of those films that deserves to be forgotten. A comfort film for those of a certain vintage, completely value-less to those younger than it.