As you wish...that means I love you.

Rating: 10/10 (11 March 2007)

It's a fairy tale, but it has such a sarcastic sense of humor that it can never be called sappy. It pokes fun at the fantasy genre, but it obviously has respect for it, since it's a great addition to the genre. Cary Elwes and Robin Wright are perfectly cast as the lovers, as are Wallace Shawn, Andre the giant, and Mandy Patinkin as the "poor lost circus performers", Chris Saradon as the purple wearing put out king, Billy Crystal as the mutton loving miracle man, Carol Kane as his bewitching wife, Peter Cook as the Weverwand of twue wove, Peter Falk as the cheek pinching grandfather, and Fred Savage as the grandson who is suspicious of this kissing book. Rob Reiner brings them all together with a lively script by William Goldman that features fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, and miracles. Goldman won an Oscar for his work on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the same spark is in The Princess Bride, it's most evident between Andre's Fezzik and Patinkin's Inigo. The frame of a grandfather reading to his ailing grandson gives the movie one of it's more relevant meanings, everybody likes a good story, no matter how much of that icky kissing is in it. The end.