The princess bride is to fantasy is as Chucky is to horror.

Rating: 1/10 (17 June 2003)

Before I begin there are a few times I will make comments as to certain parts of the story and specific details but I do not reveal any critical points in the story. To start the story itself is horrible. I admit it has a few good characters, I enjoyed the spainard. The first time I saw it it was easy to tell what would be happening 10 minutes ahead. The simplicity of it all was dumbfounding. The story is nothing more than cliche. Several people I know seem to like it some how in one way or another, something I dont seem to understand. The acting I found to be subpar but acceptable given the roles. Andre the Giant, as he has become known as, fit the role of his character very well from a physicly ominious standpoint, but his poor diction detracted from the moment most any time that he spoke. The Vizzini character was utterly annoying through and through. As for Cary Elwes, his performance I felt was decent given the seemingly two dimensional persona that the script gave him to work with. Something that really got on my nerves was how that it was chosen to retain the annoyence from the book of using that horrible acronym: ROUS. Rodents Of Unusual Size. Its one thing to include a rodent as an enemy but its quite another thing in the way they handles the scene with the rodents. When Elwes's character was attacked by one of these "rous"s he was even pinned down by this animal half his size. To me this was a horrible way to handle it. It reminded me much of chucky *shudders* (now THAT was a horrible movie) where a childs doll somehow had the weight and strength to pin down grown people. The physics of it just dont make any sense. My ultimate opinion is this. As a satire, mocking the fantasy genre, it was a masterpiece of its time. As a fantasy (which is what its listed as for some reason), it was an abomination and a slap in the face to the rest of the genre in my opinion. I cant quite put my finger on a specific of why i loathe it so much, but to sit and watch it makes me sick.
Would i Reccomend this movie? If you havent seen it: yes. I have heard enough good things from other people that odds are you may enjoy it too, so you might as well struggle through it once.