As You Wish...

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 1999)

This movie is definitely my favorite movie. I have long sections of it committed to memory (including sound effects!).
If you enjoy multiple genre works, you should be interested in this film...it delightfully blends romance, comedy and action. Along with memorable characters (Fezzik, Miracle Max), it has witty dialog ("You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."), a great chain of events leading to the climax (sword fight, wrestling match, battle of wits, etc.), and a satisfying ending in both the fantasy world of Wesley and Buttercup and the real world of the sick boy and his grandfather.
If you like the movie, you may also like the book (by William Goldman...still in print), although not for the same reasons. The book uses narrative to amuse where the movie uses surprise or quirky characters. And the "abridger's" description of the "original" text is quite amusing, as is the 18 page (I think) foreward describing the ordeal to acquire an original" manuscript.