What more could you want?

Rating: 10/10 (28 July 2000)

True Love. What can now these days be seen as "inconceivable" is brought effortlessly to film in this tale of a couple parted by "death" brought back to life amidst fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, monsters, giants, chases, escapes, miracles and a really annoyingly snotty prince. The film is brilliantly cast. Every one fits their part perfectly. I can't imagine anyone else but Cary Elwes playing Westley, Robin Wright playing Buttercup, Mandy Patinkin as the vengeful Inigo, Andre the Giant as the good natured Giant, Wallace Shawn as the "brilliant" Sicilian...so on and so forth....each character in each of their quirks fits the bill in this fantasy great....all the way down to the priest with the speech impediment. Together they make one of the greatest stories ever told. It brings hope and wonder back to a world that is lacking both. It is just pure goodness (matched with subtle, yet delightful humor) . If you are looking for an escape from the way things work in this day and time, I definitely suggest watching this movie and taking it to heart. It will remind you that there is still good left in the world and that true love is the greatest thing God has given us. Westley and Buttercup have to be one of the great couples ever to have "lived" If you are looking for other movies that personify this goodness that does exist in human nature, i would have to suggest the timeless Anne of Green Gables. Next to the for-mentioned Westley and Buttercup, the two characters fated to be together Anne and Gilbert through her he naive optimism and imagination and his charm also bring back the good