The Princess Bride (1987)
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Reviews Counted: 50
Fresh: 48 | Rotten: 2
A delightfully postmodern fairy tale, The Princess Bride is a deft, intelligent mix of swashbuckling, romance, and comedy that takes an age-old damsel-in-distress story and makes it fresh.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 2
A delightfully postmodern fairy tale, The Princess Bride is a deft, intelligent mix of swashbuckling, romance, and comedy that takes an age-old damsel-in-distress story and makes it fresh.
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Movie Info
Based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, The Princess Bride is staged as a book read by grandfather (Peter Falk) to his ill grandson (Fred Savage). Falk's character assures a romance-weary Savage that the book has much more to deliver than a simpering love story, including but not limited to fencing, fighting, torture, death, true love, giants, and pirates. Indeed, The Princess Bride offers a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale depicting stable boy-turned-pirate Westley's journey to rescue
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Cary Elwes
Westley -
Robin Wright
Buttercup the Princess ... -
Mandy Patinkin
Inigo Montoya -
Chris Sarandon
Prince Humperdinck -
Christopher Guest
Count Rugen -
Wallace Shawn
Vizzini -
Peter Falk
The Grandfather -
Fred Savage
The Grandson -
André the Giant
Fezzik -
Peter Cook
The Impressive Clergyma... -
Carol Kane
Valerie the Wizard's Wi... -
Billy Crystal
Miracle Max the Wizard -
Mel Smith
The Albino -
Betsy Brantley
The Mother -
Anne Dyson
The Queen -
Willoughby Gray
The King -
Margery Mason
The Ancient Booer -
Malcolm Storry
Yellin -
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All Critics (50) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (2) | DVD (41)
Based on William Goldman's novel, this is a post-modern fairy tale that challenges and affirms the conventions of a genre that may not be flexible enough to support such horseplay.
Top CriticRob Reiner's friendly 1987 fairy-tale adventure delicately mines the irony inherent in its make-believe without ever undermining the effectiveness of the fantasy.
The leads are vacuous; the absurdities sometimes forced and obvious.
Since its release more than 15 years ago, The Princess Bride has often been copied, but never equaled.
This material might easily have lent itself to broad parody or become too cute for its own good. But Mr. Reiner presents it as a bedtime story, pure and simple.
Bride achieves much more than most film comedies.
An unexpected delight for all the family.
Shall we re-wind and give it another spin? As you wish...
A witty, even clever-clever, exercise in deconstructing fairytales that became something of a cult with fans of its ironic/comic charms.
Witty, winsome fairy tale for the whole family.
An inordinately smart and sly motion picture, one that has enough simple pleasures to succeed as one of the better popcorn movies of its decade.
There is so much to latch onto in this movie, so much for each member of a family that watches it together to love.
A film of remarkable forwardness, honesty, and humor, built, like all fairy tales, around one message, summed up late in the script: "True love is the greatest thing in the world."
One of Reiner's most entertaining films, effective as a swashbuckling epic, romantic fable, and satire of these genres.
One of the hottest cult videos of the 1980s, and a family classic besides, enjoyed by new generations of youngsters as well as their parents.
One of the Top films of the 1980s - if not, of all time. A treasure of a film that you'll want to watch again and again
An effective comedy, an interesting bedtime tale, and one of the greatest date rentals of all time.
One of those rare satiric gems, like The Court Jester and Galaxy Quest, that doesn't just send up a genre, but honors it at the same time.
A seminal cult classic the exact appeal of which has always eluded me, though most of the world seems to adore it.
The lesson it most effectively demonstrates is that cinema has the power to turn you into a kid again. As we wish.
Cute at the time, better as soundbites now.
Superb comedy/fantasy/adventure
One of the best movies ever. Beautiful fantasy full of adventure and romance.
Audience Reviews for The Princess Bride
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- Inigo Montoya: Hey Fezzik, you did something right.
- Fezzik: I won't let it go to my head.
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- Inigo Montoya: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
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- Westley: As you wish....
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- Fezzik: You've been mostly-dead all day.
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- Westley: We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
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- Prince Humperdinck: It's iocane powder. I swear my life on it!
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